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Award-winning poet, novelist and author of the famed How To Do It Frugally series of books for writers Carolyn Howard-Johnson and award-winning playwright and actor Lance Johnson have been married far longer than the average couple and are still doing things together - in this case, joining with Amazon's Kindle Select program to give away e-copies of their books, starting Jan. 13.

Ta-da! Two books for your Kindle (or your computer if you don't have a Kindle) with only a couple clicks. Writers will benefit from The Great First Impression Book Proposal, while international friends might appreciate What Foreigners Need to Know About America From A to Z: How to Understand Crazy American Culture People, Government, Business, Language and More.

Anytime during these five days (Jan. 13-17), click here, then click here. Both e-books will come directly to your computer or Kindle.

You can also send the books free to others for a thoughtful - and fast - gift. Send Lance's book to an international student, an immigrant - or anyone who cut more high school civics (or English!) classes than they should have. Send Carolyn's book to fellow writers. Every nonfiction author and even most fiction writers can use it as it is becoming common for publishers to ask for proposals from writers of genre fiction.

"It's thoughtfulness with the click of a mouse," she said.

Lance Johnson is an actor with national commercials, plays and movies to his credit. He also has visited more than 90 countries and taught English and American culture abroad. His book has been endorsed by ambassadors to the U.S. and ambassadors from the U.S. to other countries.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's How To Do It Frugally series for writers has won multiple awards. She has studied writing at universities in the Czech Republic, Russia and UK, UCLA and USC. And she has been an instructor for the world-renowned UCLA Extension Writers' Program for nearly a decade. She served on the EBWW faculty in 2006 and 2008.