What’s the surprise that I mentioned yesterday on the Avoid Writers Hell Group and AWH Chatters? What is it that had all the AWH puppies calling me and Tess teases?

Well, Michelle “Emmy” Ellis designed our first AWH Magazine!!!

I came across an online magazine the other day that was so cool, and I sent the link to her and Tess, mentioning how I’d love to be able to do something like that for PDFs or whatever.

Next thing I knew, Emmy is asking me lots of questions, lol, and sends me a link later in the day.

My. Jaw. Dropped. This magazine is damn amazing!

However, this is NOT to be confused with the AWH newsletter. The AWH Newsletter is a monthly publication and is for my AWH puppies to share their news, their accomplishments, reviews, who is sick, who got out of the hospital, who had a baby, so on and so on. The AWH newsletter is only available to AWH members of either or both groups unless a member forwards it to someone, which is perfectly fine.

The AWH Magazine has articles, short fiction, recipes, Author Splashes, and much, much more. It will be available on the AWH blog site and anyone can access it, so if you have a story featured in it, your work will be presented to others, both readers and writers, outside of the AWH groups! However, the new issues will only be published when Emmy has the time to put them together. A day here, a day there, until she has enough material and has everything edited and formatted to publish the next issue.

Can you submit something to the AWH Magazine? Yes, but there are guidelines! Those are pending, so please be patient.

Here’s what Emmy has to say:

“Short fiction really does need to be short—no more than 1K words like your story, Faith—and edited [polished] as best the author can get it before they send it to me. I haven’t got time to do extensive edits. Writers must treat the AWH Magazine like any other mag submission.
 
“Also, if any puppies want their picture as the front cover, they’ll need to send me one. First come first served etc., on that—it will also depend whether or not the pic is small with low res as opposed to bigger and high res. Small and low res will make for a grainy, pixilated effect, so their pic may have to appear as a small one inside a frame like they have on mag fronts. Small ones would be cool if they also feature inside on Author Splash or the Author Bio pages.
 
“Aaaaand, basically, what they see in Issue 1 is what they’d have to send to me should they want to appear as any of those features. So, the sidebar stuff and recipes would have to be low word count. Author Splash!…they can see what info I want from Kiyara Benoiti’s double page—a personal quote is a must for that page because I want readers to connect with the author better. If I get too may Author Splash! requests, some might have to be held off until future issues. Any Top Tips, Dear Editors (these will be in confidence), and the confessions page—can stretch to two pages on those features if we get a lot of stuff sent. Confessions page is in confidence too.”

Guidelines will be available in the groups’ FILES section and on a page at the AWH blog site too (http://authorsalacart.com/awh/). PERMISSION TO FORWARD THIS MESSAGE GRANTED.

And drumroll…LOL…here is the link to view this amazing magazine:

http://en.calameo.com/read/000149014352beed9ca2e 

Play with the tools on the mag to tailor it how you are comfy viewing it. Note that wherever you point the curser it will move the entire page. No scrolling needed, which I find so nice.

Faith, Group Owner

www.faithbicknellbrown.com

Weaving Magic into Romance…