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Jeanne Burrows-Johnson
Published Author, Narrator
Jeanne Burrows-Johnson is an author, narrator, marketing consultant, and motivational speaker. Her writing draws on a performing arts background, including teaching acting and dance in Honolulu, helping to organize three Hawaiian Highland Games, serving as Volunteer Talent Coordinator for the Training Division of the Honolulu Police Department, and working as a free lance author and co-author of fiction and non-fiction. Educationally, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with distinction at the University of Hawaiʻi, where she subsequently studied Asian history during a teaching assistantship in their World Civilizations program. Her publications have included the award-winning Natalie Seachrist Visionary Hawaiian Cozy Mysteries and Under Sonoran Skies Prose and Poetry from the High Desert. Educationally, In addition to the Arizona Authors Association, my professional memberships include Mystery Writers of America , Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, the National Writers Union, Sisters in Crime, and Arizona Mystery Writers.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 New Mexico Book Awards, FINALIST, Cozy Mysteries
This fourth mystery in the Natalie Seachrist Visionary Hawaiian Cozy Mystery Series opens with the killing of a gentle Buddhist minister at her altar at a Honolulu Jodo Shinshu Temple during the theft of a sacred statue of the Shākyamui Buddha. Natalie and company move on to international antiquarian auctions, intriguing Japanese history and philosophy...and the purchase of a yacht for future inter-island jaunts.
2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
WINNER, Fiction-Adventure-Other
For someone seeking complex fun (except for a couple of homicides), there is my third mystery. In it, Natalie and Ke`oni are delighted to participate in the first Annual Aloha Scavenger Hunt across the island of O`ahu during Chinese New Year. Unfortunately they are soon working again with his former partner, Lt. John Dias of HPD, to explore the relationship between two murders separated by sixty years...and the periodic presence of a mysterious woman in red.
2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
WINNER Cozy Mysteries, WINNER Cover Art
2018 Arizona Literary Excellence Contest, SECOND PLACE Published Literature
This second book in the Natalie Seachrist Visionary Hawaiian Cozy Mystery Series is ideal if one is intrigued by the escape of a little Jewish girl from Nazis in Denmark during the Second World War. Now an International Human Rights activist, she is one of the neighbors Natalie, Natalie, Ke`oni and Miss Una meet at their new home on Mokulua Drive, where the trio has moved for life in a peaceful seaside abode...as least until another a vision reveals a garroting in their neighborhood and they must join with his former partner at HPD to discover the perpetrator of this heinous crime.
2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, FINALIST, Mystery Suspense and WINNER, Best Cover Design
In this first Natalie Seachrist Visionary Hawaiian Cozy Mystery, the protagonist seeks resolution of her vision of the horrifying death of a beloved great-grandniece by falling onto a classic Ford Mustang from the apartment the college student was to rent. With the aid of Ke`oni Hewitt, a retired Honolulu Police Department detective, and Miss Una, her clever feline companion, Natalie discovers the intriguing Shànghǎi origins of the women who own the apartment complex...and more than a little discord.
This is Kindle and audio book is a themed anthology of fiction and non-fiction literature written and narrated by six Tucson, Arizona, co-authors: Bill Black Jr., Jeanne Burrows-Johnson, Susan Cosby-Patton, Dr. Kay Lesh PhD, the Reverend Patricia Noble (deceased) and Larry Albert Sakin (deceased). Drawing on diverse life experiences, spanning education, engineering, ministry, law, and the performing arts, the six authors bring complementary tone, style, and rhythm in this 240-page book.
This duo blog and website are designed for creative professionals, as well as readers and literary professionals. The website introduces me and provides writing samples of fiction and non-fiction. Featured are: the award-winning Natalie Seachrist Visionary Hawaiian Cozy Mysteries; Under Sonoran Skies, Prose and Poetry from the High Desert (a themed anthology by six authors); and Conversations with Auntie Carol, Seven Oral Hisatory Interviews, an upcoming oral history print and audio book. There are also affirmations, poetry, sci-fi, and history, plus recipes from the Hawaiian Islands and beyond. Posts on my blog discuss: Wordpower©; public speaking; tactical branding and promotion; public relations; and strategic event planning.