Jonah Pacala

Jonahmae Panen Pacala also known by her pseudonym as Jonaxx, is a Filipino author, born on 23 January 1991 and hailing from Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. She is currently the most followed Wattpad author worldwide with over 5 million followers and is widely known as the "Wattpad Queen" and "Pop Fiction Queen". Jonaxx is one of the all-time best-selling authors in the Philippines. In 2017, she has published around 150,000 copies of her books and was featured in Yes! magazine. Her best works include Pop Fiction's Mapapansin Kaya?, Every Beast Needs A Beauty, and the Baka Sakali Trilogy— some of which made it to National Book Store's local fiction bestseller list.


Education

Jonaxx attended the Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education in 2011.


Career

Jonaxx joined the online teen forum TeenTalk on the website candymag.com (the online affiliate of Candy magazine, published by Summit Media), and she posted her work on “Creative Corner,” a TeenTalk subsection dedicated to poems and stories way back 2003. In November 2012, acting on an old tip from one of her readers, Jonaxx signed up on the online writing platform Wattpad to call out a user who had plagiarized one of her works. She then became the first Filipino writer to be verified by Wattpad and was followed by Allen Lau on the platform. In March 2017, she ended her Pop Fiction run with the release of an entire trilogy, the Baka Sakali Trilogy, which was launched in one of the biggest book signing events by a single author by a local publisher. Summit Books held the book signing in Filoil Flying V Arena.


Bibliography


Majesty Press

In July 2017, Jonaxx launched her own imprint, Majesty Press (MPress) under Summit Media. Majesty Press is a publisher of Jonaxx stories. It publishes the unabridged, uncut versions of her stories— some of which contain new and special content written exclusively for the MPress books imprint. In April 2020, Majesty Press released eBooks for the published books under MPress on Shopify. In April 2022, all of the books published under MPress were made available on Google Play Books.


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