What was your first encounter with the writing world? After completing my first manuscript, I knew I needed to grow in my understanding of the business side of writing. I booked a flight to a national writer’s conference and dove deep into the writing world. One valuable experience I took away from that was submitting [...]
AMAZON LINK Book Blurb: Thirteen-year-old Violet Windsor is obsessed with the rush and thrill of skateboarding through a dangerous, gang-ridden part of New York City. Certain that her high-society parents wouldn’t approve of the rough-and-tumble sport or the sketchy neighborhood, she and her best friend, Sloane, hide her secret adventures in a thick veil of lies. When Violet’s [...]
Coming in April! Thirteen-year-old Violet Windsor is obsessed with the rush and thrill of skateboarding through a dangerous, gang-ridden part of New York City. Certain that her high-society parents wouldn’t approve of the rough-and-tumble sport or the sketchy neighborhood, she and her best friend, Sloane, hide her secret adventures in a thick veil of lies. [...]
Mark your calendars for this June middle grade release!
When tragic loss throws twelve-year-old Carabelle’s life into a tailspin, her dreams of leaving impoverished rural Mississippi to become a big-city fashion designer are shattered.
How did you hear about Anaiah Press? My first introduction to Anaiah Press came as a result of a Twitter pitch contest. I took a chance and pitched my novel, now titled The Christmas Angel in Apt. 3C. Happily, Anaiah Press editor Kara Leigh Miller hearted one of my pitches for the novel. Do you [...]
It's cover reveal week at Anaiah Press. Today we are excited to present our upcoming Middle Grade novel, One Small Spark by Jackie Minniti. A mysterious message on a scrap of paper. A shadowy group whose motives are unclear. A political struggle that pits friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor, and father against son. Eleven-year-old Benjamin [...]
We are so excited about the next installment of Saint Michael the Archangel Academy, Saving the Statue of Liberty by Andrea Jo Rodgers! Here is the cover! John Jenkins is on probation at Saint Michael the Archangel Academy. That means one wrong move on his part, and he’ll be tossed off Team Liberty like wilted lettuce on a soggy [...]
A Guest Post by Jackie Minniti I’m a firm believer that nothing important happens by chance. This belief has been validated many times as I’ve traveled through the six decades of my life, but never more than a serendipitous experience that shed a new light on an old story. My dad was a WWII veteran [...]
A GUEST POST BY JACKIE MINNITI One thing I learned from my years of teaching reading in middle school was that middle graders have very definite opinions about books. We had some very lively discussions about what they liked (and hated) in the books they read. This came in handy when I decided to write [...]
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