Anna M. Aquino

Hello!   Check out this Real Solutions as I interview Vishal founder of eGenCo Publishing!   https://youtu.be/SzycMYv1dXU           Remember God has awesome plans for your life.  Get excited!

Greetings Awesome Peeps, I want to thank all of you who prayed about this interview.  I'm so glad we got it.  Check it out, it's an amazing salvation story, If you've ever felt called to write a book, and a prophetic word to Ohio churches. https://youtu.be/3DOGje7YGxQ Please continue to agree with us and pray that we continue to get such awesome dynamic interviews. Thanks and Super Smiles,   Anna Aquino

              I was contemplating today about some of the things I’ve learned through my years writing.   After the holidays I will begin a new YA trilogy, and my brain has finally started to step into brainstorming mode.   Since these books will be #24, #25, and #26 in my list of manuscripts I think that in writing this blog I may have been around this mountain a few times.   I hope my random lessons can help some of you write the visions that God has put in your head. 1)        Write!   My dear late spiritual mentor used to always say, “It’s harder for God to move a parked car than it is for Him to move a moving one.”   Was he belittling the power of God by saying this?   No.   What his point was, is that often you have to just move forward in what you sense God is leading you, and allow God to steer things the way He is guiding you.   People ask me al...

              Most of you know my story.   God called me into ministry at the age of 12, and to write my first book at the age of 16.    I was a kid that no one would have expected this out of: I wasn’t the greatest writer, I always just wanted to fit in, and would have NEVER dreamed that I would be doing the things I am doing today.   I had this crazy notion that it would be an easy adventure, and that the hard part would be writing the books.   It hasn’t been the easiest journey, and honestly the easy part is writing.   The part that has felt like it was the wall of Jericho has been the publishing side. It took me a few years to really start working towards this goal, and I really started this journey in 2000. God broke through that in 2012 when Cursing the church or Helping it? was released and then earlier this year a publisher picked up Confessions of a Ninja Mom .   ...

            Many of you know my journey into publishing has been one of persistence and diligence.  It took me years to get any doors to budge.  For me it’s been a journey of endurance, and trusting God despite the years of turndowns.  Honestly there have been several deals that I could have easily taken, however every time I’ve been published they just weren’t times that I just took because they were offered to me.  I have refused to publish any work I do outside of God’s timing and the right publishing house for each project.  Each piece have been prayed about.  I’ve been honored to watch as some doors in the more recent years have opened.              So I had hinted at this news in my last blog and on social media.  I am so excited to get to make this announcement now that contracts have been signed.  I’d like to have a *Drum...

On Friday, I had some events happen that I thought I'd share. I finished my 14th book! It was a bit of a stretch for me, and it's still in rough draft form, but I finished the draft. I still need to go back and proofread. I'd like to add about another 4,ooo words but I got the draft done. I have about another 6 books roaming in my head right now. I can be a real workaholic if I let myself. Then, about an hour later, I went to check my mailbox. The timing couldn't have been worse. Sitting in my box was a turndown from a publishing house on my 13th book. I had been waiting to hear from them on this since June. (many of you are thinking I thought she had a publisher? I do, for my non-fiction. However I'm believing God for a fiction publisher. Books are published on an individual contract basis...) The turndown was not because these people didn't lik me. It wasn't because they disliked the manuscript. However, it was because the book didn't fit into the spec...