Green Expo Offers Video Package an Author Can't Refuse

I just posted an unique opportunity for authors on my Sharing with Writers blog. It's a Book Pavilion at a Green Expo. The package for table (booth) and video interview that will keep you promoting your book for a long time in the future to everyone all over the world (well, anyone who is connected to the Web)is under $300. I will be hosting. I'm more than a little excited about this!

Go here:

http://sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com/2009/06/green-expo-book-pavilion-to-help.html

And know that you are green. If you do green stuff in your office, you're green. If you publish on recycled paper, you're green. E-books? Green. Kindle or other readers? Green. Yes, you can make this work for you. Or just pronounce your commitment to green and you're on your way.

Freedom, Soldiers, and Myths

Raff Ellis and the adjudicator of the Reid trial dish on freedom, what soldiers are, mythsm and more on this week's last two blogs at www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com.

Authors Access to 49 Cent, 20 Minute Wonder on Book Proposals

I love to give my blog readers (and, yeah, readers of my books) free information when I can. There are others who like to do that, too, including Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman of Author Access. We are some team when we get together as we did last week when they interviewed me on the fine art of book proposal writing and why it matters. Many of the tips were taken from my 49 cent wonder "The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or Less." We talked about the "A" to "Z" of book
proposals and how to make your unique voice shine through. We also talked about:

* Why I wrote "The Great First Impression Book Proposal"
* Why this how to on book proposals differs from most–-other than it’s being only 49 cents
* The most important part of a book proposal
* Why you need a query letters to go with your book proposal
* Why I chose the Amazon Short format for "The Great First Impression Book Proposal"

Download the free podcast at http://authorsaccess.com/archives/146
Learn about the 30 Success Secrets for Authors and Publishers at Authors Access.
To learn of other free podcasts that benefit writers follow Victor and Irene on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/vvolkman Follow me at http://twitter.com/frugalbookpromo


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Contributed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of This Is the Place; Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered; Tracings, a chapbook of poetry; and two how to books for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Her FRUGAL book for retailers is A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques. She is also the author of the Amazon Short, "The Great First Impression Book Proposal". Some of her other blogs are TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, a blog where authors can recycle their favorite reviews. She also blogs at all things editing, grammar, formatting and more at The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor blog.

Book Review on Social Marketing for Authors

Because I believe so strongly in social marketing as a tool in an author's box for great promotion, I am sending my fellow MWSA members this review I just wrote. I hope you'll all consider it.

Successful Social MarketingBy Dana Lynn Smith
E-book
Nonfiction//Writing/Marketing
Contact Reviewer: hojoreviews@aol.com
Publisher's Site: www.AuthorSocialMarketing.com Understanding Frugal and Effective Social Marketing

Veteran Marketer and Author Benefits Promotion-Minded Authors

Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This Is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, Tracings, a chapbook of poetry, and the author of the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers

There is not much to say about Successful Social Marketing by Dana Lynn Smith that can't be said in one sentence. This book is basic and clear enough for writers just beginning to use social marketing as a marketing tool but complete enough that even veteran marketers will find new applications and new marketing ideas within its pages.

OK. Let's add a few more sentences--out of enthusiasm. This book is absolutely amazing. It is organized and even includes calls to action at the end of each major section. I would have wished for a real in-the-hand book because that's the way I am, but with something as explosive as social marketing, an e-book is perfect. Smith will find it easy to keep it fresh for you with new online developments and links. I'll be recommending it to those taking my marketing classes at UCLA for sure.

If you've been saying "I don't 'get' Twitter (or Facebook or any of the others including some you've never heard of)," this is the book for you.

PS: I printed my e-book copy out and have carried with me for two weeks, reading, underlining and nodding. "Oh, yeah!"

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, has won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction Harkening, won three. A UCLA Writers' Program instructor, she is also the author of another book essential for writers, USA Book News' Best Professional Book of 2004, The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't. The second in her HowToDoItFrugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success also a USA Book News pick and winner of Reader Views Literary Award and the New Generation Award for Marketing. Learn more at www.howtodoitfrugally.com

The True (?) Story of Taps, Memories, and My Uncle Bob

I just posted a story MWSA members may want to see. The author believes it to be the true story of Taps. That one some of you may have seen floating around the Web. I added the story of my uncle, a WWII bomber pilot veteran, who died recently. Sort of a mini memorial.

I also added a new followers feature where you can follow this blog and have your little avatar appear at the top of the blog--front and center.

So, please come by. I consider it sort of a sister blog to this one. (-:

http://warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com/2009/05/history-of-taps-memories-and-my-uncle.html

Are You Using Your Expertise to Teach?

I thought I'd share a tip from my Sharing with Writers newsletters.

Tip: Those of you who teach (which is one of the best ways to get the word out about your book, by the way!) will want to read Judi Silva’s review of a book from McGraw Hill that tells how to develop an online course: http://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2009/04/valerie-landau-tells-teachers-how-to.html

Authors may subscribe to Sharing with Writers by sending an e-mail with SUBSCRIBE to HoJoNews @ aol.com. (Yeah, take out the spaces! (-: )
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Submitted by one of your MWSA Member Talk blog managers Carolyn Howard-Johnson. She is author of Tracings, a chapbook of poetry that includes memories of WWII and is an MWSA award-winner. She also wrote the foreword for Support Our Troops, a giftbook of patriotic sayings that supports Fisher House and includes a red, white and blue car magnet.

Want to Start a Military or Writer's Blog?

One of my writing partners, Phyllis Zimbler Miller, has a link to one of our articles that makes blogging simple. Let us know what you think?

http://www.operationsupportjewsinthemilitary.com/jews-military/want-to-start-a-milblog

Best,
You MWSA Blogger
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Author of the MWSA Award of Excellence winning chapbook of poetry, Tracings