ReaderViews reviews Are You Rugged?

Rugged Dude Carson Modern History Press (2019) ISBN 9781615994533 Reviewed by Rachel Dehning for Reader Views (04/2020) “Are You Rugged or Unrugged?” by Rugged Dude Carson is a humorous book which includes scenarios in which you are judged as either rugged or unrugged (according to Rugged Dude Carson). Examples of…

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Tom Powers reviews Points North

Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula by Mikel B. Classen Review by Tom Powers, Michigan in Books Yes, yet another travel guide to the Upper Peninsula, and if you’re tempted to dismiss it and say enough already, you would be wrong. This is…

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Midwest Book Review features Yoga Cocaine

Tyla Taylor’s Bookshelf  Yoga Cocaine Daralyse Lyons Modern History Press 9781615994854, $19.95, hardcover, 240 pages 9781615994847, paperback A powerful journey of transformation and personal evolution! Jessica is an incredible character with a powerful story. Following her journey tugged at my heart and although the subjects addressed (addiction, relapse, recovery, trauma)…

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Midwest Book Review features Points North

Points North by MIkel B. Classen

Read the full review on Midwest Book Review blog Profusely illustrated, impressively informative, ideal for planning all manner of day trips, weekend adventures, and vacation itineraries, “Points North: Discover Hidden Campgrounds, Natural Wonders, and Waterways of the Upper Peninsula” is unreservedly recommended for personal, family, and community library Travel Guide…

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Seattle Book Review features Points North

Points North by MIkel B. Classen

Rosi Hollinbeck from Seattle Book Review reviews Points North: “…Who needs cities when one can find an abundance of parks, museums, ghost towns, wilderness areas, hiking trails, rivers, lighthouses, and more. This wonderful book has forty destinations, each with a write-up of two to five pages that includes beautiful full-color…

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Tulsa Book Review features Yoga Cocaine

Yoga Cocaine

Kristi Elizabeth from Tulsa Book Review reviews Yoga Cocaine: “As the reader is brought through the twelve steps of AA, pairing each step with a yoga pose, we start to feel Jessica heal and become stronger. This book was an interesting read, with some very graphic parts but overall pretty…

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Alice Berger reviews Writing For Bliss

Writing a memoir strictly for your own eyes can be an interesting ramble down memory lane. But writing one that you plan to market and sell will involve some very different techniques. Whichever option you’re thinking of pursuing, Writing for Bliss is there to guide you. Diana Raab has first-hand…

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Publicity Tips from an Author Who Knows

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Need some nitty-gritty how-tos for getting nearly free publicity? Try Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s The Frugal Book Promoter. The third edition has just come out and it is filled with updates suitable for 2019. Whether you are doing it yourself or partnering with someone, you’ll find tips for promoting your book by…

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Broadstreet Review on Yoga Cocaine

Yoga Cocaine

Kyle V. Hiller writes: Yoga Cocaine is an abyssal dive into imperfect meditation, spirituality as a means to recovery and self-definition, and finding the humility to reconcile strained, compromised relationships. Jessica’s unabashed rawness is both dispiriting and rewarding, honest and diverting—it’s human. I enjoyed watching her transformation unfold, even if…

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Qualitative Review of How Dare We! Write

HowDareWeWrite

This book is a collection of stories that writers of color and LGBTQAI+ writers have experienced and are still experiencing as writers in a literary world where their voices are silenced,and their experiences are not represented. The 24 stories written in the book are interconnected, and each story shows challenges…

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MyShelf review of Frugal Book Promoter

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From the author’s popular “How to Do It Frugally Series,” comes this third edition of The Frugal Book Promoter, a nonfiction guide to getting no-and-low-cost publicity. As the publishing industry has changed over the years—primarily because of the internet—each new edition provides updates accordingly. This latest version of the first…

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Fran Lewis reviews Yoga Cocaine

Yoga Cocaine

Within the mind of many there is a feeling of hopelessness and despair and the only way that can focus on life is to escape using drugs and alcohol. Life hands everyone stressful times and many can deal with it with the support of friends and family, but when you…

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How Dare We! Write featured on Creative Writing Studies Organization

How Dare We! Write

We were very excited to discover How Dare We! Write featured on the Creative Writing Studies Organization reading list pages.  We encourage academic instructors and researchers to contact us for a complimentary exam copy.  You can reach editor Sherry Quan Lee on her blog pages. Diversity and Inclusion in Creative…

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Daralyse Lyons on “Yoga Cocaine”

Yoga Cocaine

You mean you’ve never done cocaine?” my friend, Lisa, asked incredulously.  We were sitting across from one another at Gryphon Coffee in Wayne, PA. I shook my head, no. “Well, I have and you managed to capture the experience perfectly.” I’d given Lisa an advance copy of my forthcoming book,…

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The Compulsive Reader reviews Frugal Book Promoter 3rd Ed

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Reviewed by Magdalena Ball The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher 3rd Edition By Carolyn Howard-Johnson Modern History Press 2019, ISBN: 9781615994700, I first read, and reviewed Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s The Frugal Book Promoter in 2011, when the first edition…

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Jim Cox reviews The Great First Impression Book Proposal

The Great First Impression Book Proposal Carolyn Howard-Johnson Modern History Press https://www.howtodoitfrugally.com/index.htm 9781615994816, $8.95, PB, 54pp, www.amazon.com Synopsis: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, has been a UCLA Extension Writers’ Program instructor for nearly a decade. In “The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book to an…

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Holidays in Place and in Placelessness/Multi-visions 2019: a creative writing workshop!

Holidays in Place and in Placelessness/Multi-visions 2019: a creative writing workshop is for Writers, Artists, and anyone looking forward to, dreading, or thinking on the complex and urgent issues the holidays bring up. I will be doing this two-hour creative writing workshop November 2nd, 3-5pm, at the California Building in…

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Midwest Book Review on The Frugal Book Promoter

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Synopsis Simply stated, this newly updated third edition of “The Frugal Book Promoter” by Carolyn Howard-Johnson assures even the most novice of authors to get their book gets the best possible start in life, whether their publisher assigns zero dollars or thousands to their book’s marketing campaign. Carolyn is a…

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Yvonne Wu / WomenConnect reviews “The Frugal Book Promoter”

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“The Frugal Book Promoter, 3rd Ed” named Women Connect Online’s Book of the Month for September Yvonne Wu writes: “Wow, The Frugal Book Promoter is a treasure chest of knowledge and ideas. The book provides you with up to date solid advice and direction as you navigate through the different…

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