MEDIA NOTICE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:	JOANN SMITH AINSWORTH -  510 384-5104
		info@joannsmithainsworth.com

senior citizen launches career as novelist

(Berkeley, California)  From Underwood typewriters and carbon paper to e-book readers and Internet downloads, author JoAnn Smith Ainsworth has seen it all when it comes to handling the written word. Her first-sale novel will be e-published Tuesday, May 13, and can be read on a computer, Palm Pilot or e-book reader.

OUT OF THE DARK—a medieval romance with a touch of paranormal and a lot of suspense—will also be in bookstores spring 2009. MATILDA'S SONG, a companion medieval romance, will be e-published September 2008.

As she approached retirement, Ainsworth began writing fiction novels. At 69, she sold two of her historical romance novels to Samhain Publishing, Ltd. () and is writing her sixth novel, a paranormal suspense.
To learn more about JoAnn and her novels, visit .