High Frequency Press

High Frequency Press High Frequency is our response to a changing marketplace. Forward motion is necessary. New books! Larger presses are becoming celebrity-driven conglomerates.

A NOTE FROM HIGH FREQUENCY

High Frequency is a new press established by The New Guard and The Writer's Hotel. Our over 20+ years of industry experience will allow High Frequency to be well-perched within the market we envision. We will publish only the highest quality work—work we believe in wholeheartedly—work that bucks the new norm. We created The New Guard and The Writer’s Hotel as good liter

ary citizens, to serve writers and dig deep into writing craft. Writing shapes culture. High Frequency will publish a handful of outstanding and overlooked books in the next few years, including some of our own original work. And we’ll be running full-length manuscript contests: The Skywave Fiction Contest and The Morse Code Poetry Contest. Skywave winners will be published by HF and receive 25 copies and publication plus film and television agent referrals. Morse Code winners will also be published by HF and receive 25 copies; in lieu of agents, they will also get 15 poems published in our e-zine. We anticipate that High Frequency will publish The New Guard, but we will be taking a short hiatus for now as we focus on building the press. TNG is part of the inspiration for HF, and we have loved working with TNG writers for over a decade. Stay tuned for our upcoming HF Light Speed E-Zines, which will feature a single short story, both printed and read, with a few extra treats included. Also coming soon: our interactive and collaborative literary world map, HF’s LitWorld.

::For now, we are not accepting unsolicited submissions to our press. But our fiction and poetry contests will be in full swing until June 8!::

Mainers! TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT at Print: A Bookstore 7-8:30p.m. in Portland! The Writer's Hotel and High Frequency Press ...
06/26/2025

Mainers! TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT at Print: A Bookstore 7-8:30p.m. in Portland! The Writer's Hotel and High Frequency Press Founders Shanna McNair & Scott Wolven will be reading from their new releases, "Soul Retrieval" (debut novel) and "Hundred Proof" (noir stories) at a "husband and wife book launch" tonight. See you there!

EVENTS Jun 26 High Frequency Press Co-Founders Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven: a husband and wife book launch! June 26, 7-8:30 p.m. at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine. Thursday, June 26, 2025 7:00 PM 8:30 PM Print: A Bookstore (map) Google Calendar ICS Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven: a hus...

Today is the day! Launch day! Seven High Frequency Press authors are launching books today on June 26th. The Writer's H...
06/26/2025

Today is the day! Launch day! Seven High Frequency Press authors are launching books today on June 26th. The Writer's Hotel and HF Founders Shanna McNair (Literary novel debut "Soul Retrieval") and Scott Wolven (Noir stories "Hundred Proof")! AND!! TWH alums Alexandra Addams (Literary novel debut "The Self-Made Saint"); Melanie Anagnos (Literary Crime novel debut "Nightswimming"); Julie Price Carpenter (Humor/Fantasy debut "The Last Train Out of Hell"); Timothy D**e (Memoir debut "Backbends); Eileen T. Lynch (Literary novel debut "Splenditude"). All drop today! Congrats to all! Head on over to www.highfrequencypress.com to order your copies--or visit your favorite local bookstore to order copies. You don't want to miss out on these books!

High Frequency Press debut novelist Melanie Anagnos ("Nightswimming", June 2025) in CrimeReads! What a great article. Co...
06/25/2025

High Frequency Press debut novelist Melanie Anagnos ("Nightswimming", June 2025) in CrimeReads! What a great article. Congrats, Melanie! https://crimereads.com/new-jersey-nordic-noir/

Learn more about Melanie and "Nightswimming" here on HFP:
https://www.highfrequencypress.com/catalogue/p/nightswimming-a-jamie-palmieri-mystery-debut-novel-by-melanie-anagnos-crime

Paterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in January, when a double homicide at a local bar leaves the owner and a young woman dead. In the wake of the Rubin “Hurricane” Carter proc...

High Frequency Press Co-Founder Shanna McNair got an Editor's Pick at Publishers Weekly's Indie review, Booklife. Congra...
06/23/2025

High Frequency Press Co-Founder Shanna McNair got an Editor's Pick at Publishers Weekly's Indie review, Booklife. Congratulations, Shanna!

EDITOR'S PICK Soul Retrieval by Shanna McNair Electric, incisive literary novel of healing and facing the past. Read the review: https://buff.ly/Nn7Kpd7

The New York Times reviewed HF Forthcoming Debut Novel, "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos (June 26)! https://www.nytime...
06/14/2025

The New York Times reviewed HF Forthcoming Debut Novel, "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos (June 26)! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/books/review/new-crime-novels.html "Nightswimming" is the first in a trilogy called "The Jamie Palmieri Mystery Series." Congratulations, Melanie! What a great review! Preorder at your favorite bookstore or support High Frequency and order with us: https://www.highfrequencypress.com/catalogue/p/nightswimming-a-jamie-palmieri-mystery-debut-novel-by-melanie-anagnos-crime

More about Melanie Anagnos: https://melanieanagnos.com

Our columnist on the month’s most notable releases.

These readings at The Writer’s Hotel venue will be outstanding! Print: A Bookstore from Portland, Maine will be in the h...
05/30/2025

These readings at The Writer’s Hotel venue will be outstanding! Print: A Bookstore from Portland, Maine will be in the house. And High Frequency keepsake ARCs will be available from our current 2025 HF Catalogue! More at https://www.highfrequencypress.com/catalogue! Melanie Anagnos, "Nightswimming" (Debut Novel, Crime); Julie Price Carpenter, "Last Train Out of Hell" (Debut Novel, Fantasy/Comedy); Timothy D**e, "Backbends" (Debut Memoir); Eileen Lynch, "Splenditude" (Debut Novel, Literary Fiction); Shanna McNair, "Soul Retrieval" (Debut Novel, Literary Fiction); Allison Muir "Sugar House"; (Debut Novel, Fabulist Literary Fiction); Sean Pauzauskie, "Stage of Fools" (Debut Novel, Literary Fiction); Scott Wolven, "Hundred Proof"(Short Stories, Noir/Crime).

++Three more authors/books are forthcoming in 2025: Derek Cressman, “Virtuality” (Debut Novel, Speculative/Science Fiction); Robert T. Kelley, “Raven” (Debut Novel, Thriller); and Tamas Danziger, “The Card Game” (Debut Novel, Literary Fiction/Jewish History).++

Phenomenal reading at The Red Room at KGB Bar & Lit Mag! What a night!
04/28/2025

Phenomenal reading at The Red Room at KGB Bar & Lit Mag! What a night!

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