Rosemary Johnson, Author

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Rosemary is currently refurbing her blog, making it into an author website, in fact. Please be patient.

Thank you for visiting. I’m Rosemary Johnson, enthusiastic writer and reader of contemporary and historical fiction.

I have wanted to have a book published since being a child. How many times have you heard people say this, and never do it? As a teenager I used to scribble all the time, in little red Silvine notebooks and, later, on the computer.  I completed many novels, which, I’m now relieved to say, never got further than my hard drive.  However, a few years ago, I retired from teaching IT at a college of further education in Essex and challenged myself to do NanoWriMo.  (Non-writers, NanoWriMo is where you have to write a novel, or 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November.)  I reached my 50,000 word target during the month of November, and won the badge.  But 50,000 is very short for a novel so I then finished writing the first draft of what would become Wodka, Or Tea With Milk three months later.  And, after much redrafting, editing and heart-searching… Wodka, Or Tea With Milk was published by The Conrad Press in September 2023.

I also write short stories and flash fiction pieces, and these have appeared online – in CafeLit, Friday Flash Fiction, Mslexia, The Copperfield Review and elsewhere – and in print – in Radgepacket and Scribble and others.  (I used to hide under the pen-name Charlie Britten but now I’m Rosemary.)  I hope to continue composing shorter pieces, to review books for Together (the trade magazine for Christian book publishers and retailers) and for Hannah’s Bookshelf (on North Manchester FM).

So here I am – writer and reader, blogger, keen cook, web developer and general computer nerd and cat-lover. And a Christian. I live on the Suffolk/Essex border with my husband, Bret, who is a musician, and a very good one. When you’re retired from paid work, you seem to collect voluntary roles; me, I manage the Association of Christian Writers’ website and my local church’s website.

You will see my writing blog, Write On, on the top menu. Please also take a look at my two other blogs, Dear Reader (book reviews) and Travel On (a travel blog). I’m also hoping to start a cookery blog soon. Meanwhile, do follow me on Twitter @REJohnsonWriter and on Instagram @rejohnsonwriter/