Jonna Turner has loved writing since her teenage years, when she attended Frayser high school in Memphis. Her husband is a retired pilot from Federal Express. They both currently live in a rural village of Colorado between Denver and Colorado Springs with their beloved golden retriever, Shiloh. She began her first novel while attending the University of Memphis. While living in Memphis, Jonna also wrote motivational articles for Positive Living Magazine and motivational radio scripts for Art Linkletter’s The ART of Positive Thinking. Positive thinking, to Jonna, is an extension of her Christian faith, which has sustained her all her life. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7. This experience provided her the needed networking with professional editors, who helped her further hone her skills to get her books published.
Her accomplishments are as follows:
- 1995: First place in the Highlands Ranch Register/Littleton Independent newspapers' short story competition for "Sabrina."
- 2002: Publication of first mystery novel, The Desk, while completing English degree at Regis University in Denver. Graduated summa cum laude. Wrote feature articles for Buy Colorado newspaper.
2003: Completion of second mystery novel, New Pictures of an Old Murder, a Highlands Ranch Mystery, which won the Adult Fiction Manuscript Award at the DreamMaker Workshop.
2004: Publication of "The Clean Smell of Dirt" in the May issue of Southern Scribe e-magazine in the Porch Tales section (southernscribe.com).
2005: Publication of second mystery novel, New Pictures of an Old Murder, a Highlands Ranch Mystery Review of novel in Colorado Country Living Magazine in its November 2009 issue.
2006: TV Interviews: Denver's Colorado & Company and Memphis's Live at 9.Publication of "The Trunk" in Prairie Times magazine.
2008: Publication of bi-weekly column in YourHub.com entitled "Angel Encounters."
2009: Publication of third novel, The Other Side of Time, a semi-finalist in the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
2010: Publication of fourth mystery novel, Finding Alan, which is the sequel to The Desk. Also, publication of a revised second edition of The Desk.
2011: Publication of Young Adult mystery/time travel novel, Shiloh and the Cave. Her most current project in the works and the first of an upcoming mystery series for young adults was inspired by her beloved golden retriever.
When asked what she is looking forward to about coming back to her roots, Jonna replied, "The first place I'm going to is The Rendevous for some good old BBQ. I miss that good Southern cooking."
Jonna Turner will be in the Memphis area for the following events:
TV interview: April 15th, Memphis, TN, WREG-TV Live at 9.
Booksigning: April 16th, Davis-Kidd Booksellers, 1-2:00 p.m.
If you would like to meet her, please feel free to stop by and say hello.
Click here to contact Jonna for more information about her books. An inspirational speaker, she is available to speak to your writing group or book club.
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