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"AC is the current that propels your career." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors' Coalition founder

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Speaking and teaching are the number one most effective ways to promote your you and your book. An Authors' Coalition Star Membership includes you as part of our speakers' bureau. Plus, because it is just starting, you can be a seminal part of its growth.

Find tips on writing, promotion or tech on every page of this website.

Become A Star at Book Events with Banners That Say You Are!

Above: A sample of a banner design that helps passers-by identify you as a signing author.

Below: What a banner set-up looks like. The banner stand is adjustable. It can be short, tall or inbetween.

Click here to request pricing on promotional banners & banner stands

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Star Membership ($125 per year) Includes:

All of the advantages of silver, gold and platinum memberships::

Subscription to Sharing with Writers where authors can brag a bit and learn about everything from book promotion to writing craft. (Non-members may subscribe at no charge by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to HoJoNews@aol.com.)
Subscription to Yarnspinners and Wordweavers. You can announce your new books, show off your cover art, discuss issues of import to writers, get credits, use pdf for media kits, and just enjoy. (Nonmembers may subscribe at no charge to this newsletter by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to publisher@redenginepress.com ).
Access to support material services at special prices.
Subscription to Fiction Flyer and a complementary ad in that newsletter.
Subscription to Inkspotter, a newsletter edited by Betty Dobson.
Access to reasonably priced AC site ads.
Access to AC-sponsored book fair booths.
Opportunity for cross-promotional projects such as The Complete Writer's Journal (see information on this in the ad below) and our annual catalog that goes to booksellers.
Use of the professional AC logo.
Access to Authors' Coalition blog focused on making book fairs work for you.
Posting of books listed on Amazon in our AC bookstore (or, in lieu of that, a link to the sales page on your website).
Your favorite review posted on your own page on the AC site.
A no-cost list of author-friendly bookstores.
Access to the AC Speaker's Bureau.
Access to be run an ad on a streaming radio show sponsored by Authors' Coalition and Women's Independent Press. Publisher Anna Marie Gire.
You will be a featured author and/or publisher or writer-related business on an automatically rotated basis on the front page of the site.
Your choice of any two of these books: The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do what your Publisher Won't or The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential or The Complete Writer's Journal.
Special consideration to be interviewed on the soon-to-come radio show sponsored by Authors' Coalition and Women's Independent Press. Publisher Anna Marie Gire.
Six months free ad on the homepage of this site.
Three months free business card sized ad in either Yarnspinners & Wordweavers or Salute! (a newsletter for those the military and those who write for the military). Value: ~ $100.
Media Kit Template with instructions for putting a media kit together.
One-eighth page Ad in Author's Coalition and Red Engine Press Catalog which will be sent to 20 bookstores of your choice plus more than 500 other bookstores supplied by other participating authors.

Plus:

One year's placement in our Speaker's Bureau (includes a podcast to showcase your voice and presentation skills)Value: $125.
Your book ad placed in Authors' Coalition slideshow produced by Joyce Faulkner and shown at all Authors' Coalition events (where applicable) and by fellow featured authors at their events. Cross-promotion at its finest! . Value $100.
All three of these books: The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do what your Publisher Won't or The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential or The Complete Writer's Journal.

To Join Author's Coalition at the Platinum level by mail, send $125 to Joyce Faulkner, AC Director, at Red Engine Press, .PO Box 264, Bridgeville, PA 15017. Clearly mark your check as "Author's Coalition -- Star Level". If you prefer to use Paypal, send e-mail to Joyce at katieseyes@aol.com indicating your desire to join AC and the level and Joyce will invoice you.

* Please send headshot, short bio and ad information to Carolyn Howard-Johnson, HoJoNews@aol.com. And then follow through with the items in our welcome letter. You'll want to be a full participant.

*** For inclusion in the speakers' bureau please send an electronic version of your media kit with list of topics you'd like to speak on, your biography and your picture to Carolyn Howard-Johnson at Hojonews@aol.com . Your AC Speakers Bureau page can be customized to your needs.

PS: Other books are available for those rejoining Authors' Coalition. Please ask Carolyn Howard-Johnson at HoJoNews@aol.com.

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* The Complete Writer's Journal is a spiral bound 112 page book with quotations at the top or bottom of each leaf. Over 100 authors are represented, each with a quotation--inspirational or practical-- and a tag line. Any author may purchase quantities of these journals at a discount to:

Sell in order to make additional profit at your events.
Use as a gift with purchase to entice readers to buy more than one of your books.
Use as a purchase-with-purchase to encourage readers to buy you book. (They buy your book and get the journal at a substantial discount.)
As useful gifts to editors and reviewers who have given you publicity.

For single copies the Journal is sold on Amazon. Bookstores may order it at www.redenginepress.com. The more journal sold, the more exposure for each author.

The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t

ISBN: 193299310X Star Publish

For only a few cents a day The Frugal Book Promoter assures your book the best possible start in life. Full of nitty gritty how-tos for getting nearly-free publicity, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, an instructor for UCLA’s Writers’ Program, shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns. She tells authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can often do their own promotion better than a PR professional. Frugal was named USA Book News "Best Promotion Book" and the Book Publicists of Southern Califonnia awarded it their Irwin Award.

The Complete Writer is a book is a compendium written by four experienced writers whose experience entails publishing, editing, freelance writing, consulting and more. They write fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Aimed at emerging writers, it covers all the basics. It is available on Amazon, at www.redenginepress.com and, of course, as a freebie with an Authors' coalition Gold Membership or above.

Two of these three books shown are available free with gold and platinum memberships. A Star Membership gets all three.

NOTE: When you join Authors' Coalition, you will receive three newsletters. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Sharing with Writers which contains tips, tricks and ideas for promoting and cross-promoting your books. It will come to your email address directly. The second is the Yarnspinners & Wordweavers newsletter which is a formatted e-zine where you can submit articles, announce your books and share information with other writers. You can also submit poetry & flash fiction. It will come to you as a pdf file attached to your email or you may download it here. Fiction Flyer is a newsy letter focused on writers with a wide lens from Kathe Gogolewski. Subscribe at http://tri-studio.com. It will come to you as an e-mail newsletter. Inkspotters is edited by Betty Dobson. It comes to you by e-mail with a click-through link. All are open to submissions for book news, reviews, short articles, poetry and fiction.

Authors' Coalition proudly honors its sponsors.

Sponsorships are open for participation from any publishing-related entity--presses, artists, speakers, conferences, tradeshows, individual authors. Please click here for details.).

Directors: Pat McGrath Avery, Joyce Faulkner

Founded by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

"AC is the current that propels your career."

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors' Coalition founder

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If you choose to do so, please include bylines, taglines and copyright tag.

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