I’m proud to have been the winner of
a USA Book Award for my new edition of The Frugal Book Promoter this
year and for my chapbook with Magdalena Ball to have been mentioned as a
finalist. If you have a place to mention
this or to pass to your audience the opportunities that USA Book News affords,
that would be wonderful. If an article would be more appropriate—perhaps one on
the marketing advantages of winning awards—that can be arranged,
too.
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Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
USA BOOK NEWS ANNOUNCES
WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF THE USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” AWARDS
Simon &
Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins, Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and hundreds of Independent
Houses contribute to this year’s Outstanding
Competition!
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LOS ANGELES
– USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for
mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced two of Carolyn
Howard-Johnson’s books were among those that placed in THE USA “BEST BOOKS 2011”
AWARDS on November 1, 2011. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010
and 2011.
Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries. Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and hundreds of independent houses contributed to this year’s outstanding competition. Keen adds, “Our success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise.”Award highlights include the following: (Full results listing available on USABooknews.com)
One reviewer said reading
Howard-Johnson’s books is like picking the brains of a master marketer. It
received plaudits from industry shakers like Marilyn Ross, founder of Small
Publishers or North America and Tim Bete, director of Dayton University’s Erma
Bombeck Writers’ Conference. The new one carries endorsements from the likes of
Dan Poynter and Tony Eldridge.
Howard-Johnson, an
instructor for nearly a decade at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, chose to
have the new edition published in both e-book format and paperback in order to
give her struggling students and clients affordable and convenient choices.
Whichever format a reader chooses, The
Frugal Book Promoter assures an author’s book the best possible start in
life. Full of nitty-gritty how-tos for getting nearly free publicity, the author
shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the
successes of her own book campaigns. A former journalist and publicist (she
wrote media releases for fashion designers like Christian Dior), she tells
authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can often
do their own promotion better than a PR professional. Her poetry is published in
dozens of literary and review journals worldwide.
USABookNews.com is an online publication providing
coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world
online community. JPX Media Group, in Los Angeles, California, is the parent
company of USABookNews.com.
A complete list of the winners and finalists of The USA “Best Books 2011” Awards are available online at http://www.USABookNews.com.
Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com and http://carolynhoward-johnson.com..
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