About Anne

As a member of the Virginia Screenwriters Forum, Anne sharpened her writing skills on screenplays that became finalists in Scriptapalooza, the Virginia Governor’s Screenwriting Contest, the All She Wrote contest, and more. Eager for a more direct connection to readers, she self-published two humorous books before launching the Amazon Bestselling Crime After Time Collection. The collection, which can be read in any order, revolves around everyday people who feel compelled to investigate past crimes against loved ones. Their discoveries rewrite the past and reshape the future in exciting, twist-filled plots.

Her third mystery, Skewed, caught the eye of Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint and went on to become an international bestselling ebook on Amazon. Her next book, Circled, won a 2016 Silver Independent Book Publishers Award and a 2016 Bronze Medal in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Ocular Denial, a thriller based on an original screenplay, won Second Place in the 2019 James River Writers Self-Published Novel Contest. All Crime After Time books have attained Amazon bestseller status many times over, including in England, Germany, and Australia.

In September 2022, Better Left Unsaid won the James River Writers Best Self-Published Novel Contest and was featured in Richmond Magazine. She has since penned Out on a Limb, which is still in production, and is at work on a new thriller with the working title Dead Stop.

Anne taught a self-publishing seminar at the Richmond Agile Writers Conference and teaches a self-publishing course at the Chesterfield Lifelong Learning Institute. She has been featured on Conversations Live with Cyrus Webb and Talking Audiobooks with Casey Trowbridge. She lives in Virginia with her family, as well as a rescued puggle and an ever-hungry cat. When not writing or editing, she bikes, hikes, and plays amateur boogie-woogie piano, which she teaches for free via Zoom and YouTube (“Piano Annie Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano”).

Contact

To contact Anne directly, please email her at annemcaneny (at) gmail (dot)com.

Awards & Recognition

BETTER LEFT UNSAID: Winner, 2022 James River Writers Best Self-Published Novel Contest. Featured in Richmond Magazine, September 2022.

FORETELLER, RAVELED, SKEWED, CIRCLED, and VICARIOUS have all been Amazon Bestsellers in the Mystery/Thriller category, with Skewed reaching the Top Ten Overall in U.S. and U.K, and #1 in Australia.

OCULAR DENIAL: 2nd Place, 2019 James River Writers Best Self-Published Novel Contest.

CIRCLED: Silver Medal Winner in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards; Bronze Medal Winner in the 2016 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards; Nominated for Best Audiobook InD’Tale Magazine; Selected as one of “Conversations Live” Top 50 Fiction Books of 2015.

SKEWED: Selected as one of “Conversations Live” Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014; selected in the Top 5% in 2017 Launchpad Manuscript Competition; published by Thomas & Mercer.

RAVELED: Selected in the Top 5% in the 2017 Launchpad Manuscript Competition.

In addition to hundreds of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, additional reviews include:

Publishers Weekly Review of CIRCLED

Raveled Audiobook Review from TwiMom227

Audiobook Reviewer, CIRCLED Audiobook

SKEWED Review “I Was Angelized First” Blog

Skewed | Craving Characters

Review: Skewed by Anne McAneny – So, I Read This Book Today

Review: Skewed – Anne McAneny | (un)Conventional Bookviews