Award-Winning Author to Teach UCLA Class for Writers
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, the multi award-winning author of more than a dozen books, will teach a one-day seminar on book marketing for writers at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program this summer quarter.
The world-renowned program offers writers classes--from the craft of writing to promoting one’s writing--at several different venues and online. Howard-Johnson’s seminar, Creating a Promotion Package for Your Fiction or Nonfiction Book, will be taught Sat. Aug. 7 on the UCLA campus. The class is based on the content of her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won’t, winner of USA Book News Award for business books and the Irwin award, given by Book Publicists of Southern California for marketing campaigns.
The author has been and instructor for the Writers' Program since 2004. She has served as a publicist for all her own books (including her poetry chapbooks--the most difficult of all genres to promote), been a fashion publicist in New York City, done the marketing for her own chain of retail stores, and has worked in the publishing industry for Good Housekeeping Magazine and a variety of newspapers and trade publications.
Howard-Johnson was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th District of the California Legislature. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. One of her poems recently won the Franklin Christoph prize. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and other subjects and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide.
For more information on UCLA’s Writers’ Program or to request their quarterly extension catalog, call (310) 825-9415. Sign up online at www.uclaextension.edu. The registration number for the English 735.1 class is 76941.
Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com). Information is also available at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com and http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com .
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And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store. Winner 2010 Mom’s Choice Award Finalist 2009 New Mexico Book Awards.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Carolyn Howard-Johnson Poetry Great Idea for Gifts
Poets Suggest The Real Thing Should Compete with Greeting Cards
Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have developed a new concept for inexpensive holiday gifts--an idea for poetic greetings apart from greeting cards.
They suggest a real chapbook of poetry and have released the first two in a series in time for the holidays. So far the series includes Cherished Pulse (for anyone you love) with artwork from California artist Vicki Thomas and She Wore Emerald Then (for mothers on your gift list) with photographs by May Lattanzio. New booklets are coming for Father's Day and for Christmas 2010.
The small books, a tradition in the poetry world since Elizabethan times, are priced to compete with greeting cards. The poets' idea is that, in general, cards from the rack seldom say what we'd like and that a small book of poetry would be more thoughtful.
Cherished Pulse may be ordered from Amazon at www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse and She Wore Emerald Then at www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook .
This us the second edition of Cherished Pulse. The first may well have been the first e-chapbook of poetry. This edition comes in paperback with a newly-designed cover; Ball and Howard-Johnson felt issuing a paperback essential considering the popularity of the e-book version. That e-book was offered by online gift-giving giant of 35 years, Celebration Express to its clients in 2007.
Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected compulsivereader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Quark Soup, which won a 2006 "Noble" Prize from MyShelf's Back to Literature site, and a poetry book Repulsion Thrust, due out in December 2009. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, published in 2007, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings (www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings ), was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
For more information on any of the chapbooks in this poetry series, contact maggieball@compulsivereader.com.
Celebration Express can be found at: http://www.celebrationexpress.com.au
Learn more about Howard-Johnson in the media room at www.howtodoitfrugally.com . And more about Ball at www.magdalenaball.com .
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Support material available electronically or by post on request.
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store.
Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have developed a new concept for inexpensive holiday gifts--an idea for poetic greetings apart from greeting cards.
They suggest a real chapbook of poetry and have released the first two in a series in time for the holidays. So far the series includes Cherished Pulse (for anyone you love) with artwork from California artist Vicki Thomas and She Wore Emerald Then (for mothers on your gift list) with photographs by May Lattanzio. New booklets are coming for Father's Day and for Christmas 2010.
The small books, a tradition in the poetry world since Elizabethan times, are priced to compete with greeting cards. The poets' idea is that, in general, cards from the rack seldom say what we'd like and that a small book of poetry would be more thoughtful.
Cherished Pulse may be ordered from Amazon at www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse and She Wore Emerald Then at www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook .
This us the second edition of Cherished Pulse. The first may well have been the first e-chapbook of poetry. This edition comes in paperback with a newly-designed cover; Ball and Howard-Johnson felt issuing a paperback essential considering the popularity of the e-book version. That e-book was offered by online gift-giving giant of 35 years, Celebration Express to its clients in 2007.
Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected compulsivereader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Quark Soup, which won a 2006 "Noble" Prize from MyShelf's Back to Literature site, and a poetry book Repulsion Thrust, due out in December 2009. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, published in 2007, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings (www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings ), was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
For more information on any of the chapbooks in this poetry series, contact maggieball@compulsivereader.com.
Celebration Express can be found at: http://www.celebrationexpress.com.au
Learn more about Howard-Johnson in the media room at www.howtodoitfrugally.com . And more about Ball at www.magdalenaball.com .
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Support material available electronically or by post on request.
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com
Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!
And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Writer Lisa Lenard Cook Schedule
Lisa Lenard-Cook
Spring 2009 Newsletter
Almost as soon as I’d sent out my March newsletter, I started getting requests for classes. Here are the latest additions. There’s contact info on each, but you can always check my website or email me for more information as well. Please feel free to forward, post, print, share, or otherwise disseminate.
May 23rd . 1 – 5 pm . Re-Vision Means Re-Seeing . Ojai CA
This workshop will be held in a private home in Ojai CA. I’m keeping it small, so please email momdogkate@aol.com now to find out how to reserve your place.
June 6th . UNM Young Writers’ Conference . Albuquerque NM
Info on the second annual UNM Young Writers’ Conference, which I’ll be leading off with a class on Fictional Seeds, can be found on the UNM Continuing Ed website: http://dce.unm.edu.
June 26th-28th . What’s Your Story? . Venice CA
With the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference on hiatus, sister faculty member & playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos & I decided to fill in a little of the gap with this weekend-long writing intensive, to be held a few yards from the ocean in Venice CA. The full story on this one can be found on Dale’s stunning new website, www.dalegriffithsstamos.com.
July 11th – August 1st . Dream It, Write It . Online
Authorlink’s new WritersEducation website is just about ready to roll, & I’ll be teaching this four-week course to help celebrate. Info: www.authorlink.com.
Book News
Far from being last year’s novels, both Dissonance and Coyote Morning continue to be selected by book groups around the country. If your book group reads one of my books & would like me to visit (either in person, if I’m in the neighborhood, or by phone or live chat, if I’m not), don’t hesitate to send me an email at my updated email address: lisalenardcook@gmail.com.
Haven’t yet read The Mind of Your Story? Readingnewmexico.com calls it “the book that should be on every writer’s bookshelf.” You can purchase it by clicking on the link on my homepage at www.lisalenardcook.com.
If you’ve not yet seen one of the AMI editions of my many Complete Idiot’s Guides in your supermarket checkout line, it’s likely you will soon. Each of these books offers just enough of a taste that readers are hurrying to buy the full-sized editions. Very clever marketing on Penguin’s part.
Never mind that my agent & I decided the time wasn’t right to take out the two novels I wrote last year: I’m just about finished with another. Stay tuned...
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Lisa Lenard-Cook
www.lisalenardcook.com
www.authorlink.com
The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction, NM Presswomen Communication Contest Honoree
Dissonance: A Novel, short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award
Coyote Morning: A Novel, NM Presswomen’s Zia Award Honoree
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If, despite my best efforts to be brief & unobtrusive, you’d nonetheless prefer to be removed from future mailings, please send an email unsubscribe@lisalenardcook.com.
Spring 2009 Newsletter
Almost as soon as I’d sent out my March newsletter, I started getting requests for classes. Here are the latest additions. There’s contact info on each, but you can always check my website or email me for more information as well. Please feel free to forward, post, print, share, or otherwise disseminate.
May 23rd . 1 – 5 pm . Re-Vision Means Re-Seeing . Ojai CA
This workshop will be held in a private home in Ojai CA. I’m keeping it small, so please email momdogkate@aol.com now to find out how to reserve your place.
June 6th . UNM Young Writers’ Conference . Albuquerque NM
Info on the second annual UNM Young Writers’ Conference, which I’ll be leading off with a class on Fictional Seeds, can be found on the UNM Continuing Ed website: http://dce.unm.edu.
June 26th-28th . What’s Your Story? . Venice CA
With the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference on hiatus, sister faculty member & playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos & I decided to fill in a little of the gap with this weekend-long writing intensive, to be held a few yards from the ocean in Venice CA. The full story on this one can be found on Dale’s stunning new website, www.dalegriffithsstamos.com.
July 11th – August 1st . Dream It, Write It . Online
Authorlink’s new WritersEducation website is just about ready to roll, & I’ll be teaching this four-week course to help celebrate. Info: www.authorlink.com.
Book News
Far from being last year’s novels, both Dissonance and Coyote Morning continue to be selected by book groups around the country. If your book group reads one of my books & would like me to visit (either in person, if I’m in the neighborhood, or by phone or live chat, if I’m not), don’t hesitate to send me an email at my updated email address: lisalenardcook@gmail.com.
Haven’t yet read The Mind of Your Story? Readingnewmexico.com calls it “the book that should be on every writer’s bookshelf.” You can purchase it by clicking on the link on my homepage at www.lisalenardcook.com.
If you’ve not yet seen one of the AMI editions of my many Complete Idiot’s Guides in your supermarket checkout line, it’s likely you will soon. Each of these books offers just enough of a taste that readers are hurrying to buy the full-sized editions. Very clever marketing on Penguin’s part.
Never mind that my agent & I decided the time wasn’t right to take out the two novels I wrote last year: I’m just about finished with another. Stay tuned...
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Lisa Lenard-Cook
www.lisalenardcook.com
www.authorlink.com
The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction, NM Presswomen Communication Contest Honoree
Dissonance: A Novel, short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award
Coyote Morning: A Novel, NM Presswomen’s Zia Award Honoree
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If, despite my best efforts to be brief & unobtrusive, you’d nonetheless prefer to be removed from future mailings, please send an email unsubscribe@lisalenardcook.com.
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