LINDA BARNETT-JOHNSON
Professional
Editor and Virtual Assistant
Linda Barnett-Johnson
Originally from Southern California, Linda worked in the business world for over 30 years. but now resides in Montana, where she met and married her Christian husband, Karl. She started a site for writing forums in 2001 called "Your Writing Friend" where she gives monthly assignments, exercises, contests and writing links. If you're interested in joining, send a self introduction to Linda. She is Assistant Editor of Long Story Short and Director of Administration for the Long Story Short School of Writing and well as one of the editors at Long Story Short Publishing Company.
"I write because it fulfills a longing to put thoughts and feelings to paper. When something grabs me on the news like female circumcision on young girls, then I need to write about it. I can't sit still until the story unfolds and is told from my perspective. Whatever touches me: abortion, genocide, abuse of children and the elderly, abuse of wives and girlfriends, abuse of animals, These are things that truly stir an emotion that sends me to find paper and pen."
Some of Linda's published work includes:
Buttermilk Cake . . . Yumm!
Dirty Trail of Tears (poem)
Epoch of Affection (poem)
Grandmama's Journals
Just Two Weeks
Writer's Block - No Such Thing
The River of Life - (poem)
Fireflies and Fairy Wings
The Ritual on Ana2Writing
The Ritual in CIA-Citizens In America
Amtrak Avalanche on Applecart Magazine
Quilts of Treasured Memories in print anthology - The Color Gallery (Taj Mahal Review)
Last Salute (poem) Long Story Short (Nov. 2006)
Chocolate Death (poem) Archives of Long Story Short (Feb. 2007)
Haiku (poem) Archives of Long Story Short (July 2007)
Linda has a wide range of interests which include: oil painting, singing, playing the organ, church activities, gardening, canning, playing games, editing, reading and writing. She has five grandsons, one granddaughter.
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