Los Angeles Premier of Kochiyama's Crusaders

Many of my #SharingwithWriters subscribers and visitors know that much of my poetry and fiction has a tolerance theme and so I felt I just must let you know about the premiere productions of a new play by Marlan Warren.  It's in Los Angeles so I hope you Southern Californians can support it; I hope the rest of you will stow this play in the recesses of your memory and gift it some affirmative energy so it will make it to your town!




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Playwright: Bits of Paradise: Kochiyama's Crusaders

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THE PLAY: BITS OF PARADISE -  What did you do in the War, Mama?  Kochiyama's Crusaders This documentary film will honor the war effort of Japanese  American girls and women held in American concentration camps  during World War II. Led by the young activist, Yuri  Kochiyama (aka "Mary Nakahara"), they called themselves  "The Crusaders" as they embarked on a passionate  letter-writing campaign to boost the morale of  "any soldier in need of a letter."

Filmmaker: What did you do in the War, Mama?: Kochiyama's Crusaders
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What did you do in the War, Mama?  Kochiyama's Crusaders sites.google.com What did you do in the War, Mama: Kochiyama's Crusaders grew  out of the play, Bits of Paradise by producer/director/playwright  Marlan Warren which showcased at The ...

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 Howard-Johnson is the author of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also a marketing consultant, editor, and author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for

writers including the award-winning second editions of The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor. Her latest is in the series is How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically. Learn more on her Amazon profile page, http://bit.ly/CarolynsAmznProfile. Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers is one of her booklets--perfect for inexpensive gift giving--and, another booklet, The Great First Impression Book Proposal helps writers who want to be traditionally published. She has three FRUGAL books for retailers including one she encourages authors to read because it will help them convince retailers to host their workshops, presentations, and signings. It 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. In addition to this blog, she helps writers extend the exposure of their favorite reviews at TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. She also blogs at all things editing--grammar, formatting and more--at The Frugal, Smart, and Tuned-In Editor (http://TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com) Her most recent book is Imperfect Echoes which fits right in with today's theme of tolerance and was released this year to rave reviews from Jim Cox, Editor-in-Chief of the Midwest Book Review.  The cover is by Conrad Jackson, an artist who is serving 25 years to life in the California penal system for receiving stolen property.

You, Your Thank You Notes and Google

Your mother would have insisted you use Google Alerts if they'd been around when you were a kid. Why? Because they are you first line of defense for writing thank you notes.

And you all know how important I think thank you notes are! You use them to keep in touch with your valuable readers and to keep networks with your editors and fellow authors alive. Yes, you also continue to send them to your great grandmother who sends you a $1 bill in your birthday card, too!

Alerts is a tool that notifies you when something you need to know about appears on line. It knows what you want to know because you tell it.
That makes it an excellent research tool, too.

Here's how you use Alerts for both thanks yous and research:

Go to http://www.google.com/alerts to create a Google Alert for the subject you are interested in. It might be your name or your book title or some of the keywords for your next book. Be sure to use quotation marks around the full phrase you want. Example: Google searches for "This Is the Place" for me because that's the title of my novel. I don't want it to notify me every time the word "place" comes up. Or, yikes! You can imagine! Or the single word "This."

Google then scans stories, blogs, websites, videos and user groups -- everywhere! -- to find information related to "This Is the Place" and then e-mails me when they find it.

This saves me time because:

~I don't have to do that "self-Googling" thing one really should do occasionally.
~I don't miss anything or don't miss much.
~I can learn when things that relate to "This Is the Place" are appearing so I can pitch feature editors, radio producers, etc. (Google gets news on things like polygamy, women's issues, etc. to me fast!

By the way, when you get a link from Google--even one that doesn't seem directly related to your book--pay attention! It can give you lots more information that you might notice at first. Things like the name of a staff writer interested in your area of expertise, or a blogger or niche magazine you didn't know about.

Put on you Alert hat and be Alert! Let Google help you do it!


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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author THIS IS THE PLACE; HARKENING: A COLLECTION OF STORIES REMEMBERED; TRACINGS, a chapbook of poetry; and two how to books, 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 other blogs include TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com and AuthorsCoalition.blogspot.com, a blog that helps writers and publishers turn a ho-hum book fair booth into a sizzler.