Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of the multi award-winning series of HowToDoItFrugally books for writers, such as USA Book News’ winner, The Frugal Book Promoter. An instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers Program for nearly a decade, her awards include Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment (given by members of the California Legislature), and Women Who Make Life Happen (given by the Pasadena Weekly newspaper). She is also an award-winning poet and novelist. What was your first writing job? My real first job was at The Salt Lake Tribune as a staff writer (and later, a columnist) when I was only eighteen. That was when we still used teletypes and they set the plates for a newspaper by pouring hot lead into forms! Journalism has never been more exciting than it was then! What useful experience did you acquire at Good Housekeeping Magazine? I learned that I liked the speed and fluster of real journalism better than the slow, careful, and detail-oriented stuff of magazines. We usually worked on an issue three months in advance so nothing was really current. Of course, the world wasn’t as speedy then, either. You also studied outside the United States. What universities were continue...