Phyllis Johnson

My latest book is JUST ME, 100 Monologues for Teens. (50 for girls, 50 for boys) This is being used in high school and college classrooms. It was a real blast recording students giving my monologues. I'm hard at work on another monologue book.

I had the pleasure of writing a YA book with award winning author, Nancy Naigle under the pen name Johnson Naigle. Our co-written book is inkBLOT, is out now finally! A series of crimes surface resolving around inkblot images. Who's the culprit, Ronnie Wright, the inkblot survey webmaster or Chelsea Pressman, the news hungry reporter who writes about them? Read it and find out!

My other books are poetry books. Hot and Bothered By It was inspired by ten years of hot flashing. Hey, I had to get something good out of it, right? My second book, Being Frank with Anne, is the poetic interpretation of Anne's diary and has received attention from Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide the Frank family in the Secret Annexe. The third book is Twelve is for More Than Doughnuts, poetry and prose based on the Bible. The fourth poetry book is Poetic Dreamer, inspired by art, photography, and life in general.

I also write romance under a pen name and have short stories published in anthologies online. I always have a number of projects going at any given time and there are always new ideas for writing developing. That's what keeps things interesting. I love the support of other writers and thrive in the company of other creative people. Some of my favorite authors are Nicholas Sparks and Robert Fulghum. Writers who have held many different careers or read extensively make some of the best writers.

These days, I also serve on literary panels such as the Killer Nashville Suspense Writers Conference, the Christopher Newport Writer's Conference and the Paul D. Camp Community College Literary Festival.