Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. Her poetry chapbook, Tracings, was on the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence. The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book in 2004. It is also an Irwin Award winner. The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is a USA Book News award-winner and winner of the Reader View's Literary Award in the publishing category.

She is the recipient of the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for promoting tolerance. She was named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She is a popular speaker, actor, and she teaches for UCLA Extension's world-renown Writers' Program.