Open Road Integrated Media’s Mara Anastas has taken on JJ White’s two novels!

JJ White, Mara Anastas

Deviant Acts and Nisei have been acquired by Open Road Integrated Media for their backlist. Previously published by Black Opal Books, new life is about to be given to these fantastic stories.

“In Deviant Acts, JJ White has reinvented the amateur sleuth.  His reluctant PI, Jackson Hurst, is crazy as a loon, funny as hell, and deadly serious.  He’s as outside normal life as a man can get and somehow still solidly on the side of the angels.  This is a great read.  Let’s hope Jackson Hurst goes pro and we get a string of novels about this original and compelling character.”

~ Sterling Watson, author of Fighting in the Shade and Suitcase City.

Nisei is the story of Hideo Bobby Takahashi, a Hawaiian-born Japanese-American who must overcome prejudice, internment, and the policies of his own government to prove his loyalty to his country. Narrated by Bobby Takahashi and read by his son, Robert, forty-six years after Bobby’s death, the story details the young Nisei’s determination to fight honorably for his country and return to the young love he was forced to leave, a girl he cannot have because she is white.

JJ WHITE has had articles and stories published in several anthologies and magazines including, Wordsmith, Pithead Chapel, The Homestead Review, The Seven Hills Review, Bacopa Review, The Grey Sparrow Journal and Mystery Weekly Magazine. His story, “The Adventure of the Nine Hole League,” was published in the Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Volume 13, and his story, “Lucky Bastard Club,” an anthology, was published in the Saturday Evening Post (2016). He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his short piece “Tour Bus.” His debut novel, Prodigious Savant (2014) was published by Black Opal Books. He lives on Merritt Island, Florida with his understanding wife and editor, Pamela. White is represented by Loiacono Literary Agency.