MEDIA RELEASE: Carolyn Wins 2nd Award in a Month for Her Blogs

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Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com

For Immediate Release

Editor and Author's Blogs Honored 2nd Time in a Month

The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor blog (www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com) was named Blog of the Day Award at Blog of the Day Awards blog,

http://blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com/2008/07/frugal-smart-and-tuned-in-editor.html.

The winning blog is an interactive blog where writers of every ilk send questions to Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. She answers in her imitable, colloquial and sometimes irreverent style and when she can't, she finds an expert who can.

This is the second award Howard-Johnson has received for her blogs this year. Brian A. Klems, online managing editor at Writer's Digest, named her Sharing with Writers (www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com) to his magazine's 101 Best Websites in 2008 only last month. Klems notes that the blog is full of "cheap ways to promote your book" but also mentions her Sharing with Writers newsletter as a source for writers. See the June, 2008, Issue of Writer's Digest magazine, p. 54.

Howard-Johnson is the author of a novel, book of creative nonfiction and poetry, all award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43^rd and 44^th Districts of the California Legislature. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and subjects relating to writing and publishing and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is also is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program. Her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book and earned the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin award and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success winner of USA Book News Award, Reader Views Literary Award and her marketing campaign for the book took New Generation Indie Award for Marketing.

Howard-Johnson is also the founder of Authors' Coalition, an organization for writers (http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com. Her other blogs are www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com and www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com.

Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com) Information is also available at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com .

The Writer's Digest site is www.writersdigest.com and Blog of the Day may be found at www.blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com