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Marjorie Johnson taught mathematics for twenty-five years before she became a pilot, and she published ninety mathematical papers (as Marjorie Bicknell-Johnson—check out Google) before she wrote a novel. Marjorie dreamed about writing fiction for years; ten years ago, she joined Edie Matthews’ creative writing class and California Writers Club shortly thereafter. Marjorie and her husband Frank flew small airplanes out of Palo Alto Airport for twenty years. Marjorie’s novel Bird Watcher traces an airplane stolen from Palo Alto Airport. When Jerry Christensen’s Cessna 172 disappears from its
tie-down, the FBI writes Jerry off as a crackpot and the insurance
company won’t pay. Jerry, a teacher, determines to catch the thief;
he acts on hunches and makes outrageous plans, his imagination and
his background as a pilot his only weapons against serial aircraft
thefts and a conspiracy against Hoover Dam. The fast paced novel
Bird Watcher will surprise you with its plot
twists and humor. Bird Watcher is available from
Amazon.com
Marjorie’s second novel, Jaguar Princess: The
Last Maya Shaman, is the coming of age
story of a modern-day Maya princess who grows up in rural Yucatán.
Budding archaeologist Chanla “Pesh” Pex, descendant of the Maya
jaguar king B’alam, learns to read the
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glyphs
written on the “stone trees” at a local ruin, a skill known to only
a dozen scholars. She receives a college scholarship, but the gods
will punish her if she refuses their call to be a shaman. She hopes
to fool the gods by never spending the night in a sacred cave. She
finds an ancient bark book hidden within a building stone, and while
seeking treasure from its riddle, interrupts a knife-wielding
looter. After he leaves her to die in a sacred cave, she curses him
to death by crocodile and discovers powers she didn’t know she had.
Aided by the young pilot who delivers supplies to the ruin, Pex uses
her talents as a shaman to trace stolen artifacts to the black
market. Watch for