Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of the multi award-winning This is the Place, Harkening, and Tracings . She is also the author of  the How To Do It Frugally series including The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo), the winner of USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004 and the Irwin Award and the newly released The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success (www.budurl.com/TheFrugalEditor). The author was honored by members of the California Legislature as Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment and was named outstanding woman of the San Gabriel Valley in California for her "literary activism" by the Pasadena Weekly. Learn more about her at: http://www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.