It’s time for an afternoon of books and bellinis! Join author Janice Johnson for a drop-in in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Friday, March 10th from 2-4pm to celebrate the first two books in her trilogy, A Heart’s Memory and After All.
This event is FREE and open to the public. You can also purchase a ticket including one or both of Janice’s books. Additional books can be ordered on our website or purchased at the event while supplies last.
If you’re unable to attend in-person, signed copies of the authors’ books can be purchased on our website.
Tickets can be purchased online through Friday, March 10th at noon. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.
While a bridesmaid in her friends Claire and Tom’s wedding, Jessie Reynolds watches and remembers all that has happened since the funeral of Carter Powell, the young man killed in Vietnam that she was sure she would one day stand beside at an altar herself.
In this sequel to A Heart’s Memory, go back in time once again to the 1960s and experience college days at the University of Georgia, growing up in Atlanta, and the Southeastern music scene-and journey with Jessie, her longtime friend Jack, and the cast of people who walk with her in her healing…and their own.
Will Jessie find love again? Only time will tell, after all.
It’s the summer of 1965, and Jessie Reynolds and her friends at church head out on their annual choir trip. During the trip, her first romance develops for her and, as the summer comes to a close, Jessie is excited to begin her junior year in high school and share the news of her relationship with school friends. Then, out of the blue, Carter Powell, a senior member of the Northwest High football team wedges his way into her life. From a family background very different from Jessie’s, Carter’s entrance into the picture interrupts Jessie’s pre-laid plans for the future and catapults her into an adolescent journey of friendship, maturity and love.
Based on a true story from the mid-to-late 1960s, this coming-of-age novel with an Atlanta backdrop will spark memories of people and places, some of which no longer exist, and provide a basis for understanding what it was like to grow up in the capital city of the South during one of the most tumultuous decades in our country’s history, including the arrival of the Beatles and the specter of Vietnam…but most of all, it will remind us once again that our first true loves will remain with us always.
About the Author:
Janice R. Johnson was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. For many years she taught business classes on the community college level until called to become a church administrator, a career that would last over thirty years, and for which she would receive national honors, including induction into the Church Management Hall of Fame at the time of her retirement.
In 2004, she co-authored a book with Ruben Swint, Weaving Our Lives Together. Janice and her husband John live in Greenville, S.C., and have two children and six grandchildren.
After All is Janice’s second novel, a sequel to A Heart’s Memory, which was published in 2021. A third book is planned to complete the trilogy.