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northwest independent writers association.

Our mission: Assisting independent writers from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Northern California, Nevada, and Alaska who are working to achieve professional standards in independent writing, publishing, and marketing.
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​ESCAPE
2020 NIWA ANTHOLOGY


This short story collection includes tales of escape from the ordinary, the disturbing, the frustrating, and the bizarre. Each could exist nowhere but the Pacific Northwest.


Featuring a foreword by 
Cat Rambo
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And stories by:
Mimi Nickerson
Connie J. Jasperson
Johanna Flynn
L. Wade Powers
William J. Cook
Ann Ornie
Jonathan Michael Erickson
Jonathan Eaton
Agathon McGeachy
Suzanne Hagelin
L.E. French
Patrick Dwyer
Steven C. Schneider
Joel Graves
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Release Date: 11/2016
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Release Date: 11/2017
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Release Date: 11/2018
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Release Date: 11/23/19
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For more check out Our Authors and New Releases.
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This week's featured author:  Linda B. Myers
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Linda B. Myers won her first creative contest in the sixth grade for her Clean Up Fix Up Paint Up Week poster. "It involved monkeys washing spots off a giraffe, but I don't remember what it said. I'd like to think my words have more staying power these days."
Myer's first book was non-fiction published decades ago by Outdoor World. From this experience, she learned how little an author can make. So she turned to marketing for many years. Eventually, she traded in snow boots for rain boots and moved from Chicago to Port Angeles, Washington.
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Myer's first novel Lessons of Evil is still her scariest although A Time of Secrets gives it a run for its money. Fun House Chronicles introduces the characters that appear in her PI Bear Jacobs mystery series in which a tough and clever group of seniors takes on dark crime with a large dose of humor. Her fantasy, The Slightly Altered History of Cascadia, is about the gods fixing up what they've screwed up when they created humans.

Most recently, she edited the biographical memoir, To Live and Love Well, the true story of a gay man's struggle with poverty, abuse, and excommunication from the Mormon Church.

Check out all of Linda B Myers's books!
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For more about this book click on the cover.
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Raven's Heart
by Shawna Reppert

Reviewed by William Cook
Rated: 5 Star
It is such a delight to be back in alternative Portland with the third book of the Ravensblood series. I find it compelling to get drawn into an urban fantasy set along streets I’ve walked down and places I’ve been. It’s that added layer of realism that lends such believability to a story of incantations, artifacts and magic.

The players are back: Raven, still working on his redemption by consulting for the Guardians, the police force combatting magical crime; his lover Cassandra, still cautious in light of his previous betrayal; the dark mage William, now wielding only a shadow of his former strength after the cataclysmic battle in the last book. But William has scoured the ancient archives and libraries and has discovered the whereabouts of long-forgotten artifacts of death magic which will restore his power and lay the city and the world at his feet.

As always in this series, the characterization is rich and textured, the emotional tone, complex and engaging, the action sequences, stunning and cinematic. I especially liked the ending, which is as wholly satisfying as the narrative that builds up to it. Ms. Reppert weaves her story like casting a spell, capturing the reader in her own brand of magic. And I will never be able to look at Vista House in the Columbia Gorge the same way again. For me, it will remain forever the setting for the climax of a novel which will haunt me for a long time to come.​
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Fire And Lies
by Pamela Cowan

Reviewed by Linda B. Myers
Rated: 5 Star
​Pamela Cowan writes a cracklin' good mystery. She is equally skilled at plot and character development as shown in FIRE AND LIES. The sister relation between two of the lead characters is a strong one, a very believable duet (speaking as a younger sister myself).

This care is true in her side characters as well. They are not stick figures, but thought out and given mannerisms that make them feel real.

I enjoy a look at cultures that are foreign to me, so Cowan's comfort in describing the lifestyle of Pacific NW tribal members in this book is both interesting and instructive.
This author is unafraid to look close at dead bodies, so her books are not for the squeamish among you. But you'd be missing a grand story if you let that bother you.

Oh, and by the way? A little heat in the romantic intrigue department is a good thing, too!
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      • A >
        • April Aasheim
        • J.M.M. Adams
        • Heather Ames
        • Frank Arcilesi
        • Stephen Atkins
      • B >
        • Pam Bainbridge-Cowan
        • Barry L. Becker
        • Michael Bershay
        • Kerry Blaisdell
        • D Dean Boom
        • Lori Beasley Bradley
        • Anna Brentwood
        • Andy R. Bunch
      • C >
        • Baer Charlton
        • L B Cheryl
        • Mike Chinakos
        • Kathleen Concannon
        • Jeffrey Cook
        • William J Cook
        • Adam Copeland
        • Pamela Cowan
        • Lisa Cromwell
      • D >
        • Steve DaVala
        • Disa Dawn
        • Sheila Deeth
        • Raven J. Demers
        • Laura Doyle
        • Liam R. W. Doyle
      • E - F - G >
        • Jonathan Eaton
        • Jonathan Michael Erickson
        • Johanna Flynn
        • James L. Gillaspy
        • Thomas Gondolfi
        • Joel Graves
      • H >
        • Stephen Hagelin
        • Suzanne Hagelin
        • Heidi Hansen
        • Mindy Hardwick
        • Audra Harley
        • Anne Hendren
        • Angela Highland
        • M. P. Hopcroft
        • M. W. Horses
        • A. M. Huff
        • Mollie Hunt
      • I - J - K >
        • Maggie Jaimeson
        • Connie J. Jasperson
        • F. L. Journey
        • Kimila Kay
        • Sheri J. Kennedy
        • Signe Kopps
      • L >
        • Michael R. Lane
        • Katherine Lee
        • Ellie Derrick Lewis
        • Cyn Ley
        • Larry Lindberg
        • Eric Little
        • Maggie Lynch
      • M >
        • Tonya Macalino
        • Ramona D. Marek
        • David Martyn
        • tom r. mcconnell
        • Nikki McCormack
        • James M. McCracken
        • Donald McEwing
        • Roslyn McFarland
        • K Z Miller
        • Rory Miller
        • Jeff Monday
        • Sonja S Mongar
        • Barbara J Moritsch
        • Linda B Myers
      • N - O - P >
        • Judy Nedry
        • R. W. Nichelson
        • Tammy Owen
        • Jocelynn Pearl
        • Julie Pershing
        • Nichole Phoenix
        • Courtney Pierce
        • L. Wade Powers
        • E M Prazeman
      • Q - R >
        • Cordelia Rains
        • JMD Reid
        • Shawna Reppert
        • Joyce Reynolds-Ward
        • Ellen King Rice
        • P. K. Ross
        • R Roderick Rowe
      • S - T - U >
        • Andretta Schellinger
        • Steven C Schneider
        • B. J. Scott
        • James Scott
        • R. G. Shannon
        • Ann Simas
        • Susie Slanina
        • Walt Socha
        • Thomas Stimson
        • Brian Tashima
        • Charles Thomas
        • Patrick Timm
        • Contessa Timmerman
      • V- W- X - Y - Z >
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        • Cody Voeller
        • Brad Wheeler
        • Steve Zell
        • Gregory E. Zschomler
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