AIW Press is proud to announce two new releases by Joan Hall. The first, House of Sorrow, is a short story/novella and a prequel to Cold Dark Night. Blurb Dream home or damned home? Ruth Hazelton is over the moon when her husband Lee agrees the nineteenth-century Victorian in Madeira,…
You saw the cover a few weeks ago, and now AIW Press is proud to announce the release of Joan Hall’s, Unclear Purposes. It is the third and final book of her Driscoll Lake Series. Blurb: Some people take secrets to the grave… Three years after her husband’s murder, Christine Lawrence…
AIW Press announces the cover for Unknown Reasons. If you can’t stand the heat… Rachel Jackson hails from one of Driscoll Lake’s wealthiest families. Like her father, she became a doctor and is now a respected physician. But despite her successful career, Rachel feels something is missing from her life—until…
AIW Press is proud to reveal a new cover for Unseen Motives. Things aren’t always as they seem… Stephanie Harris is no stranger to mystery and suspense. The author of several best-selling thrillers returns to her hometown of Driscoll Lake twenty years after her father’s suicide when her great-aunt Helen…
Unless you are like Harper Lee, who had only one highly successful novel published until a few months before her death, authors need a number of publications before people begin to notice their work. This is what is known as building your backlist. Your backlist doesn’t necessarily have to be…
Allison stepped onto the patio, enjoying the coolness of the desert southwest evening. Saguaro cacti were silhouetted against the sunset, and a roadrunner darted behind an agave plant. A cactus wren perched nearby. Allison walked further into the yard and stopped to stand beneath a giant magnolia tree… Okay, I…
All good stories have conflict. Something to keep you interested. What provides conflict? A well written villain. Someone who makes you root for the hero. As you write your novel, if you simply concentrate on your hero/heroine, you are leaving out what makes your story great. Conflict. Something or someone…
Okay, confession time. As much as I love my Kindle and the opportunity to carry an entire library in my purse, I often miss making visits to a brick and mortar bookstore. There is something to be said about perusing the aisles filled with dozens of books. And way back…
Looking for a down and dirty list for story writing improvement? Look no further. Here the top ten ways to hone your fiction writing skills: 10. Dissect novels you enjoy. Look through your favorite novels by other authors for techniques and tricks to improve your characterization, settings, plot, pacing, dialogue,…
Pamela Foster wears many hats, and whether she wants to claim “writer” as one of them, she not only wears it, she wears it with panache. Through personal experience, humor, and tough love, Pamela will discuss ways to move past the things that hold writers back in these series of posts…
