Rainier-based award-winning author Bettye Johnson

Congratulations to Bettye Johnson, who won the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Award for her book,
Mary Magdalene: Her Legacy (Living Free Press).

Bettye Johnson, a two-time book award winner and an international author will introduce her newest book, Awakening the Genie Within at a book signing celebration in Yelm, Washington on Saturday August 2 from 2-5 p.m. at the Blue Bottle Espresso – Yelm Washington.

Bettye is also the founder and facilitator of Writers Night Out Forum, which meets the first Monday of each month at the Blue Bottle.

Awakening the Genie Within

“What happens when a 40 year old woman finds a genie lurking within? Change.

What happens when a forty year old woman awakens to a genie lurking within her? Two time award-winning author Bettye Johnson answers this question in her soon-to-be released first work of non-fiction Awakening the Genie Within, A Journey of Discovery, a semi-memoir of Johnson’s journey into a world of manifested words and thoughts. Johnson’s book Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls is an Independent Publishers Book Award Winner 2006 and its sequel Mary Magdalene, Her Legacy an Independent Publishers Book Award Winner 2008.

Suzanne Fairbrother, Ph.D., author of the best-selling book The Goddess Within, says “Awakening the Genie Within is a delightful presentation of the accumulated wisdom of a life well lived. Bettye Johnson’s book shows us how to live our lives more powerfully.”

Johnson’s book covers a span of her next 39 years of developing the genie within and shares her experiences, the tools she used and the wisdom gained during a fascinating journey of discovery.

Bettye Johnson’s life is a woven tapestry experiences that moved her from the cotton fields of Texas to working as a code clerk in the embassies of Paris and Tokyo where she received an uncommon education. Her background includes being a wife of a career military man, mother, government worker, minister and author.

Due for release August 2008

Awakening the Genie Within, ISBN 978-0-9650454-4-5 $17.95 Author Bettye Johnson from Living Free Press,” quoting Author’s Den.

BEST WISHES TO MS. JOHNSON!