BAIPA member JoAnn Smith Ainsworth is an award-winning author with five published novels After getting her rights back for her fifth novel, Expect Trouble, because of problems with a traditional publisher, JoAnn is independently publishing the book through BookBaby; it should be released in March. A sixth novel, Expect Deception, will be released by She Writes Press on June 21.
JoAnn, a senior citizen on a pension, is doing a crowdfunding campaign to raise marketing money for book tours to promote her new WW II paranormal suspense novel, Expect Deception. To learn more about the campaign, click here.
“The impetus behind my writings lies in a desire to illustrate through the lives of my characters that small moments of courage are all it takes to attain what we seek from life.”
~JOANN SMITH AINSWORTH
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth – Author of Historical Romance and Paranormal Suspense Novels
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