Elana Johnson is an American author and also writes under the names of ''Liz Isaacson'' and ''Jessie Newton''. Her works of

young adult fiction Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...

and

romance Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, ...

have appeared on USA Today's bestseller list three times. Johnson is a Utah-based writer with over 100 works to her credit.

Background

She studied math and science in school and college, and is the technology specialist at a school in

Pleasant Grove, Utah Pleasant Grove, originally named Battle Creek, is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States known as "Utah's City of Trees". It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 37,726 at the 2020 Census. Histor ...

. Her husband is a teacher; they have two children. She started writing in late 2007, and published ''Possession'' in 2011.Teri Harman
"Elana Johnson is an unexpected novelist"
''

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'', June 4, 2011, retrieved October 25, 2020. Her ''From the Query to the Call'' is a guide for aspiring writers, and she co-founded the ''QueryTracker'' blog and also blogs at ''The League of Extraordinary Writers''.

Writing career

As Elana Johnson

Under the name Elana Johnson, she has written for young adults and adults. The

speculative fiction Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ...

''Possession'' series for young adults includes three

dystopian A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

novels, a

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts ...

, and a short story

prequel A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative. A prequel is a work that forms part of a backstory to the preceding work. The term " ...

; she said in 2011 that she hoped to make readers think for themselves and deliberately had her protagonist question what she was told from the start. In 2014 she published ''Elevated'', her first contemporary teen romance; Both ''Elevated'' and ''Something About Love'', also published in 2014, are

verse novel A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voice ...

s. Later works include a duology entitled ''Rift Walkers'', three novels in the ''Elemental'' romance series, two novels in the ''Redwood Bay'' adult contemporary romance series, published in 2016 and 2017, and ''Echoes of Silence'', which is adult fantasy.

As Liz Isaacson

Under the name Liz Isaacson, she writes inspirational romance novels, including several series, of which her first was the Three Rivers Ranch Romance series, and the novella ''Starting Over at Steeple Ridge''. She also wrote ''A Dash of Love'', based on the 2017

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."''A Dash of Love'' by Liz Isaacson
Simon and Schuster.

Publications as Elana Johnson

Trilogy

Possession trilogy # ''Possession'' (June 2011) # ''Surrender'' (June 2012) # ''Abandon'' (June 2013) # ''Regret'' (novella) (February 2012) # ''Resist'' (short story) (December 2011)

Verse novels

* ''Elevated'' (2014) * ''Something About Love'' (2014)

Elemental series

* ''Elemental Rush'' * ''Elemental Hunger'' * ''Elemental Release''

Rift Walkers

* ''Rift'' * ''Mend''

Redwood Bay

* ''Until Summer Ends'' (2016) * ''Until Winter Breaks'' (2017)

Adult fantasy

*''Echoes of Silence'' (2020)

Other works

* ''From the Query to the Call'' * ''Open for Love'' (novella) * ''Under Your Spell'' (anthology) * ''All Hallows' Eve'' (anthology)

Publications as Liz Isaacson

Three Rivers Ranch series

* ''Second Chance Ranch'' (2015) * ''Third Time's the Charm'' (2015) * ''Fourth and Long'' (2016) * ''Fifth Generation Cowboy'' (2016) * ''Sixth Street Love Affair'' (2016) * ''The Seventh Sergeant'' (2016) * ''Eight Second Ride'' (2016) * ''The First Lady of Three Rivers Ranch'' (2016) * ''Christmas in Three Rivers'' (2016) * ''Lucky Number Thirteen'' (2017) * ''The Curse of February Fourteenth'' (2018) * ''Fifteen Minutes of Fame'' (2018) * ''Sixteen Steps to Fall in Love'' (2018) * ''The Sleigh on Seventeenth Street'' (2018)

Gold Valley series

* ''Before the Leap'' (2016) * ''After the Fall'' (2017) * ''Through the Mist'' (2017) * ''Between the Reins'' (2017) * ''Over the Moon'' (2017) * ''Under the Bridge'' (2017) * ''Up on the Housetop'' (2018) * ''Around the Bend'' (2018)

Other romance series

* Brush Creek Brides (from 2017) * Buttars Brothers (from 2017) * Grape Seed Falls (from 2017) * Christmas in Coral Canyon (from 2018) * Quinn Valley Ranch (from 2018) * Last Chance Ranch Romance (from 2019) * Horseshoe Home Ranch (from 2019) * Steeple Ridge Romance (from 2019) * Seven Sons Ranch in Three Rivers (from 2019) * Shiloh Ridge Ranch in Three Rivers Romance (from 2020) * Christmas at Whiskey Mountain Lodge (from 2020)

Other romance books

* ''Curl Up With A Cowboy'' (co-authored omnibus, 2016) * ''Ticket to Bride'' (2017) * ''Fractured Slipper'' (Fairy Tale Ink, 2018) * ''A Dash of Love'' (novelization, 2018) * ''Take a Cowboy Home for Christmas'' (omnibus, 2019) * ''Her Cowboy Billionaire'' (omnibus, 2020) * ''Cowboy Valentines'' (2020)

References

External links

Elana Johnson website

Liz Isaacson website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Elana Living people American writers of young adult literature American romantic fiction novelists Novelists from Utah Year of birth missing (living people)