About the Authors

Carolyn and Phyllis “met” on Twitter due to a mutual interest in supporting our deployed troops.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a multi-award-winning novelist, poet, and author of the How To Do It Frugally series of books.

Her novel This Is the Place won eight awards.
Her creative nonfiction Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered won three awards.
Her chapbook of poetry Tracings was named to the Compulsive Reader’s Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers Society of America’s Silver Award of Excellence.
Her poetry chapbook She Wore Emerald Then, Reflections on Motherhood — coauthored with Magdalena Ball — was self-published in the time-honored tradition of poets everywhere.
The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t was a USA Book News Award and Irwin Award winner.
The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success was also a USA Book News Award winner as well as the winner of the Reader View’s Literary Award and the New Generation Award for Marketing.
Her The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Know To Sell Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less is available on Amazon.

She is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program.

Her website is How to Do It Frugally.

Her blogs are:

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the co-founder of Miller Mosaic, LLC, an online marketing company that combines the power of traditional marketing principles and Internet marketing strategies.

She is a National Internet Business Examiner.
She is the Twitter marketing expert at Site-Booster.com.
She is also marketing director of Booksicals.
Her 2008 book Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semifinalist.
She is the co-author of the Jewish holiday book Seasons for Celebration.
She has a B.A. in Journalism from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School.
She was the founding president of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime.