Jim Woods
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Jim Woods has published more than 400 articles in Outdoor Life, Popular Mechanics, Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo, Shooting Times, Guns, Southern Outdoors,Western Outdoors, Gun Digest, and other national periodicals; and has contributed to various anthologies.

His current book release in print is GUNSHOT ECHOES, a collection consisting of an adventure novella set in South Africa, “The Outlander,” supplemented with five short mysteries. His current e-book release is ASSASSINATION SAFARI.

His prior works, all in soft-cover print, include the co-authored collection of short fiction, OLLA PODRIDA; the set-in-Africa action-suspense novel, THE LION KILLER; collected accounts of his world hunting adventures, HONK IF YOU LOVE GEESE and Other Hunting Stories; a collection of short fiction, JOURNEYS; and a writing tutorial, TWO DOZEN LESSONS FROM AN EDITOR.

He is a novelist and short-story author, and when not writing for himself, edits other authors' novels and nonfiction book-length works under private arrangement (click here for editing services information). He conducts writing-technique workshops for authors' groups and writing conferences.

Jim Woods worked as Editor, Editorial Director and Managing Editor for (then) Petersen Publishing Company, Los Angeles ; and as field Editor with (then) Publishers Development Corporation, San Diego. He has worked as an engineering writer-editor in the aerospace/defense industry, and served, honorably, with the U.S. Navy, four years.

He is actively included in the Safari Club International (SCI) Professional Outdoor Writers Registry (POWR). His past professional associations include membership in Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) and American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

He is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA 58th Edition, 2004.