Vanessa A. Johnson

Vanessa Alexander Johnson is a native Louisianan. She is retired (30 years) from the St. Charles Parish Sheriff�s Department. She and her husband of twenty-nine years are the parents of three children, one son deceased, and grandparents of three.

Johnson started writing after the close, untimely deaths of her mother and son in 1994. Her first book, dedicated to her loved ones is titled, When Death Comes a Knockin� (Book Haven Publishing, March 2005, ISBN 1-4116-2470-X), a self-help, inspirational book about loss and grief.

Johnson�s other publishing credits include:

�Gumbo for the Soul Anthology: The Recipe For Literacy In The Black Community, by Beverly Black Johnson, iUniverse 2007, ISBN: 0-595-42907-06
�Songs of Hope by Sachel, Timeless Avatar Press, May 30, 2006, ISBN-10: 0973369264 Bo
�Help, I've Turned Into My Mother, by ReShonda Tate-Billingsley, Strebor Books, December 2005, ISBN: 1-59309-050-1
�Nancy's Christmas Eve Visitor: An Anthology of Short Stories by The Purple Pen, Author House, November 1, 2005, ISBN: 1420873687
�Letters to My Mother, Adassa Prendergast Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 0-9715016-0-2
�Notes to my Father, Adassa Prendergast Publishers, 2004, ISBN: 0-9715016-1-0
�An Essay in Divine Appointment: A Caregiver's Guide by Delores Thornton, iUniverse, (May, 2004) ISBN: 0595318975
�An essay, Faith in Healing, in the Living by Faith Anthology, Tina L Miller, Obadiah Press, July 2004, ISBN: 0-9713-2662-2
�What Foods Would Have Made You Grow? Down the Cereal Aisle Anthology, Daniel�s House Publications, 2003, ISBN: 0967674034

Johnson has completed her first novel, Sacrifices In The Name of Love, and is hard at work on the sequel, After the Pain.