JEANNE BURROWS-JOHNSON author, narrator, motivational speaker
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Author, Narrator, Branding & Design Consultant, Motivational Speaker
During most of my career, I have addressed the branding and marketing needs of individual entrepreneurs and executives serving profit and non-profit organizations. Today, my authorship embraces fiction and non-fiction projects centered on the Islands of Hawai`i where I lived for over two decades. I hope you will enjoy the enhanced information on several of my current and planned projects contained in this website...
If you've came to this page from the ImaginingsWordpower.com website, you already know that I remain dedicated to helping individuals, executives, and entrepreneurs maximize their own abilities to communicate with the public. Regardless of the nature of your work or leisure time endeavors, I encourage you to drop in at that site to determine if there are ideas or tools that might enhance your professional or personal living. If you are looking for specific tips on authorship, I invite you to visit Blog.JeanneBurrows-Johnson.com. You can send me a message on the form at Contact Jeanne.
JEANNE BURROWS-JOHNSON, author & speaker
A W A R D
MURDERS OF CONVEYANCE
2019 NEW MEXICO/ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS
Winner for Fiction, Adventure-Drama
Finalist- Mystery Crime and Cover Design-Fiction (6x9)
Journalist Natalie Seachrist and her boyfriend private investigator Keoni Hewett have earned a brief vacation in downtown Honolulu. They are delighted to plunge into the First Annual Chinese New Year Aloha Scavenger Hunt with friends from the mainland. But when Natalie realizes a haunting dream is actually one of her continuing visions of murder, the pair again volunteer to help Keoni's former partner, HPD homicide detective John Dias. Soon her expanding visions and the unrelenting assistance of feline companion Miss Una link two murders separated by sixty years to a mystery woman in red... and a false clue hinting at a priceless white jade Kuan Yin statue residing somewhere in historic Chinatown.
2018 ARIZONA LITERARY EXCELLENCE CONTEST
2nd PLACE, Published Fiction
2018 NEW MEXICO/ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS
Winner, Cover Design-Fiction (6x9)
Finalist, Mystery-Cozy
Natalie, her mischievous cat Miss Una, and her boyfriend, private investigator Keoni Hewitt, have moved to a cottage in the welcoming windward O`ahu community of Lanikai. Unfortunately, their seaside bliss soon evaporates when the images contained in her chilling vision are confirmed by the moonlit garroting of a neighbor. Everyone hopes that the discovery of a suspect’s body at Diamond Head Beach has solved the case. But a tour of historic Kawai Nui Marsh unexpectedly puts Natalie's new friends in the cross-hairs of a wily adversary. Does the murder's resolution lie in the victim’s international past, or among her seemingly innocuous companions?
tHE NATALIE SEACHRIST HAWAIIAN MYSTERIES
2017 NEW MEXICO/ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS
Winner, Cover Design- Fiction (6x9)
Finalist, Mystery-Suspense
Semi-retired journalist Natalie Seachrist has had visions all of her life. But envisioning her grandniece’s body draped over a vintage Mustang shatters her world and that of her twin, psychologist Nathan Harriman. Aided by police detective turned private investigator Keoni Hewitt and her tortoise shell cat Miss Una, Natalie investigates Ariel's death at the Honolulu foothills apartment where the college student died. There she discovers the owners’ exotic Shànghăi origins…and more than a little discord. Will Natalie learn the truth about the unusual death before the case is closed? Or has she put herself in the way of a murderer who's willing to kill again to hide their secret?
Earlier published work
The joy of collaborative work
Under Sonoran Skies: Prose and Poetry from the High Desert is an anthology of fiction and non-fiction literature written and narrated by co-authors Bill Black, Jeanne Burrows-Johnson, Susan Cosby-Patton, Kay Lesh, the Reverend Patricia Noble (deceased), Larry Sakin (deceased). Prior to launching the exciting Hawaiian mystery series, I joined with five other Tucson authors to publish Under Sonoran Skies, Prose and Poetry from the High Desert. This anthology of fiction and non-fiction pieces was recognized as one of the top 50 picks in 2012 by Southwest Books of the year.
Tucson Tales
This menu item presents readers with revised material from a series of historical articles I wrote on Tucson shortly after moving here in 1995.
Articles for Regional and International Publications
From healthcare issues to finance and non-profit organizational projects, I have authored and co-authored articles for publications such as The Rotarian; Broker World, and The Hawai`i Medical Journal [now the Hawai`i Journal of Medicine and Public Health.
CONVERSATIONS WITH AUNTIE CAROL
A Series of Seven Hawaiian Oral History Interviews
Auntie Caroline Kuliaikanu`ukapu Wilcox DeLima Farias was one of the first people to greet me in Honolulu, Hawai`i, in 1972. Alone, except for my cat, I had arrived to teach classes in the performing arts. Carol and her family welcomed me personally as well as professionally. You could not be in her presence without feeling inspired by the breath of Island living, for she was the embodiment of the Aloha Spirit.
I had no idea that two decades after our recorded conversations I would have the honor of helping to present her stories to the world. It has been an unexpected outgrowth of my graduate studies in history at the University of Hawai`i and my freelance work as a writer.
Regardless of whether you will ever visit Hawai`i, you will feel you have taken an Island holiday when you read and/or listen to her stories of her childhood on Maui and growing into womanhood on O`ahu. Oh, did I mention that she was dancing hula awana in Waikiki on the night of December 6, 1941...Even if you have not loved history in the classroom, I believe you will enjoy hearing about a lifestyle that many people heartily embrace regardless of their own cultural heritage!
