Rebecca Johnson first knew the rural farmlands of Upstate New York, then the prairies and sunflower fields of the Midwest before finally settling among the oak-dappled marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Diagnosed in early childhood with ADHD, she quickly turned to writing as a creative outlet that would allow her rampant thoughts to run where they would. After high school, she chose the more secure path of nursing over a career in the arts, but always kept her writing bubbling on the side—until her first novel landed her as easy prey to a vanity press. Angry and discouraged, she set her notebooks aside to focus on work and family.
Fifteen years later, after a passing comment dredged up the memory of her long-buried characters, the spark reignited. She picked up her notebooks, this time determined not only to create something beautiful, but to force her way into the subtleties and nuances of the craft, from plot to prose, to the dangers that lay along the path of publication. Her hope now is to share enough of her knowledge that other budding writers might avoid her mistakes.
Since reentering the industry, Rebecca has published through both self and traditional routes and earned more than twenty awards through various focused writing competitions geared toward scene, dialogue, romance, hook, character, protagonist, and antagonist. Rebecca primarily writes fantasy, where her neurodivergent superpowers help construct vast worlds, and the distance created by suspended disbelief adds perspective to real-world situations.