Alana Woods

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About Alana Woods
Alana Woods is a storyteller who loves writing about the country closest to her heart; her home, Australia. Given she's an urbanite that means stories with Australia's capital cities front and centre.
Her first published novel, A legal affair (previously published as Automaton), a thriller set among the machinations of the Canberra legal scene, won the Fast Books Annual Prize for Best Australian Indie Fiction.
Her second, A complicated affair (previously published as imbroglio), contemporary intrigue suspense, weaves in beautiful but sometimes-dangerous Sydney and it's world-famous harbour.
And there are more in the pipeline.
Want to contact Alana? You can do it through the Contacts page on her website: http://www.alanawoods.com
Her first published novel, A legal affair (previously published as Automaton), a thriller set among the machinations of the Canberra legal scene, won the Fast Books Annual Prize for Best Australian Indie Fiction.
Her second, A complicated affair (previously published as imbroglio), contemporary intrigue suspense, weaves in beautiful but sometimes-dangerous Sydney and it's world-famous harbour.
And there are more in the pipeline.
Want to contact Alana? You can do it through the Contacts page on her website: http://www.alanawoods.com
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Blog postI’ve read all of Work’s novels and without exception thought them classy thrillers, but this one is on a totally different level.
My books on Amazon Imbroglio | Automaton | Tapestries | 25 Writing Tips
The story grips, the writing is masterful, and the main character, Mike Donnelly, is oh-so-real. In fact, everything about the book is so spot on I can’t fault it.
Work’s descriptions in places make you pause, go back, and4 years ago Read more -
Blog postLast month John and I put our walking boots on to hike a section of Canberra’s newest walking trail, the Canberra Centenary Trail.
So-called because it was launched for Canberra’s 100th birthday in 2013 and gifted to its citizens.
Canberra, for those who don’t know much about Australia, is the nation’s capital. It sits in the Australian Capital Territory, a small spot about three hours from the east coast in New South Wales.
Map of Australia from www.whereis.com websit5 years ago Read more -
Blog postOur walk across England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea may be over but we’re not in a hurry to leave North Yorkshire.
So we stay an extra day and take the local bus up to Whitby. I’d visited the town in 2000 with our oldest daughter and wanted to show it off to John.
What I found was a town that had been discovered by the masses. In 2000 there were tourists, sure, but it certainly couldn’t have been described as congested. Nowadays I’d say the locals woul5 years ago Read more -
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Where we spy the North Sea and Whitby, and at the end of a very long day we make it into Robin Hood’s Bay and have a beer to celebrate completing the walk.
At times during this walk it felt very much like we were in a time warp that would see us roaming the countryside forever. It was a rather pleasant feeling, being so totally outside our normal life with only new experiences and sights to fill our thoughts and conversation.
I can recommend the sensation5 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe’re on the downhill slide, figuratively speaking, on our epic UK Coast to Coast walk. We’ve been on the road for 14 days, having traversed the Lake District of Cumbria. We’re now well and truly on the Yorkshire Moors.
My last post saw us leaving Richmond, the largest town on the route.
This post takes us as far as Great Broughton where we spent the night listening to revelers celebrating a 40th birthday party.
Once out of Richmond we set off for a day of tramping thr5 years ago Read more -
Blog postOver the last few weeks I’ve been recreating a walk my husband John and I did in July 2013. We hiked for 18 days across England, following the famous Coast to Coast walk from St Bees on the Irish Coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea coast.
In the last post we had made it to the halfway point having traversed Cumbria and the Lake District to enter the Yorkshire Moors.
In this post I’ll take you from our last overnight stay in Keld, deep in the Pennines, to Richmond on the5 years ago Read more -
Blog postWhere we cross the Pennines, get lost and recover with tea and scones courtesy of the farmer’s wife!
Get ready for LOTS of photos.
It takes us three days to cross the Pennines. We leave the Lakes District of Cumbria behind us, cross the M6 and enter Yorkshire, in which we stay for the rest of the walk.
We overnight at Scar Side Farm just outside the little village of Orton, then the beautiful Georgian townhouse, Old Croft House, in Kirkby Stephen (pronounced5 years ago Read more -
Blog postAre you still with us? Dogging our footsteps across England along the famous Coast to Coast trail?
You’ll be relieved to learn that by this tales’ end we will have left the Lakes District and be on flatter ground.
But only after a harrowing 16 mile slog from Patterdale to Shap.
But that’s getting ahead of ourselves.
First there’s the short 7½ mile leg from Wordsworth’s home of Grasmere. As ever there’s scenery to die for.
Heading out of Grasmere5 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe continue into the Lakes District with sometimes gritted teeth
It takes us five days to navigate our way across the Lakes District.
The weather’s at its worst for this part of our walk. There’s sunshine, sure—after all, it is summer—but the rain! There’s plenty of that too.
Take, for example, our second day which took us from Ennerdale to Rosthwaite where, thank goodness, there was a lovely little hotel with a very comfortable room and good grub waiting. But first we5 years ago Read more -
Blog postEarlier this week I was in Sydney for two days taking location photos for my novel imbroglio.
John and I drove from Canberra—an easy three-hour stretch given it’s a dual highway all the way. Until you hit the city, that is. Then it’s bumper to bumper, stop start, gridlock. I didn’t take any shots while in traffic; I was too busy keeping an eagle eye on the GPS for instructions and feeding them non-stop to John who was driving.
He needed a lie-down and strong coffee before I co5 years ago Read more -
Blog postAcross England on the Coast to Coast walk part 2 Well … today’s the day.
The first of 18 that see us walking from the west coast of the UK to the east coast. Through Cumbria and Yorkshire. Following Alfred Wainwright’s famous Coast to Coast walk.
It’s been organised for us, so all we have to carry are our backpacks. Luggage will be transported between our nightly accommodation.
We’ve got B&Bs, hotels and farm stays lined up, some in the middle of towns, some5 years ago Read more
Titles By Alana Woods
A complicated affair
May 20, 2020
by
Alana Woods
$5.99
A 96,000 word suspense thriller by Australian author Alana Woods, the Intrigue Queen of thriller fiction.
The setting: Australia's incredible far north and incomparable Sydney Harbour.
Take a walk on the wild side with Noel Valentine, the troubled heroine of imbroglio, as she saves an unconscious stranger from a burning car in far north tropical Queensland. Travel with her as the aftermath sees her embroiled in the murky world of criminals, spiralling her into what looks to be no way out from her own destruction.
In rescuing David Cameron she has an inkling of what she may be setting in train, but no idea that one outcome will be a fight for her own life.
Would she have saved him if she had known she would be facing sharks of the finned as well as the two-legged variety?
It's a maze of intrigue and danger.
There's lust, love murder and mayhem.
There are international criminals, and a nasty lawyer.
Factor in a damaged compromised heroine and a charismatic shady hero and you will be asking: will any of them leave the maze alive?
The setting: Australia's incredible far north and incomparable Sydney Harbour.
Take a walk on the wild side with Noel Valentine, the troubled heroine of imbroglio, as she saves an unconscious stranger from a burning car in far north tropical Queensland. Travel with her as the aftermath sees her embroiled in the murky world of criminals, spiralling her into what looks to be no way out from her own destruction.
In rescuing David Cameron she has an inkling of what she may be setting in train, but no idea that one outcome will be a fight for her own life.
Would she have saved him if she had known she would be facing sharks of the finned as well as the two-legged variety?
It's a maze of intrigue and danger.
There's lust, love murder and mayhem.
There are international criminals, and a nasty lawyer.
Factor in a damaged compromised heroine and a charismatic shady hero and you will be asking: will any of them leave the maze alive?
A legal affair
May 20, 2020
by
Alana Woods
$5.99
A 126,000 word intrigue suspense legal thriller by Australian author Alana Woods, the Intrigue Queen of thriller fiction
Set in Australia's atmospherically beautiful bush capital, Canberra.
Heaven help Elisabeth Sharman! She has a secret. A big one. One that could derail her life and career.
Her instructing solicitor, Robert Murphy, has a problem--Elisabeth. She's not playing by the legal rules in a murder trial in which the victim's wife has her own secrets.
Elisabeth knows her secret will become known. The wife wants to obliterate hers from existence.
The crime?: a stabbing murder with a Bowie knife.
The accused?: a 19 year old amnesiac.
His friends say he's guilty. His lawyer, Elisabeth, is desperate to prove he isn't.
And all the while the victim's sons are closing in like wolves, wanting revenge.
Set in Australia's atmospherically beautiful bush capital, Canberra.
Heaven help Elisabeth Sharman! She has a secret. A big one. One that could derail her life and career.
Her instructing solicitor, Robert Murphy, has a problem--Elisabeth. She's not playing by the legal rules in a murder trial in which the victim's wife has her own secrets.
Elisabeth knows her secret will become known. The wife wants to obliterate hers from existence.
The crime?: a stabbing murder with a Bowie knife.
The accused?: a 19 year old amnesiac.
His friends say he's guilty. His lawyer, Elisabeth, is desperate to prove he isn't.
And all the while the victim's sons are closing in like wolves, wanting revenge.
by
Alana Woods
$3.99
What’s the secret to a compelling hook?
How do you write characters that live and breathe?
When do you show and when do you tell?
Where does story development take you?
Why do your descriptions fall flat?
Who is telling the story? First, second or third person point of view.
All that and more in 25 essential writing tips.
How do you write characters that live and breathe?
When do you show and when do you tell?
Where does story development take you?
Why do your descriptions fall flat?
Who is telling the story? First, second or third person point of view.
All that and more in 25 essential writing tips.
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