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Johnny Worthen

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Born

in Salt Lake City, The United States

Website

http://www.johnnyworthen.com

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Genre

Mystery, Young Adult, Horror

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Elmore Leonard, Tim Dorsey, Cormac McCarthy, Octavia Butler, Ernest He ...more

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February 2013

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Johnny Worthen is an award-winning, best-selling author of books and stories. A Utah Writer of the Year. Trained in modern literary criticism and cultural studies, he writes upmarket multi-genre fiction, symbolized by his love of tie-dye and good words. “I write what I like to read,” he says. “This guarantees me at least one fan.”

Johnny is best known (so far) for his award winning, nationally acclaimed, best-selling young adult novel, ELEANOR, THE UNSEEN. It is a great book and if you haven’t read it, you need to. Johnny’s debut novel, the adult occult thriller, BEATRYSEL along with its companion story DR. STUART’S HEART explores the darker sides of love and Magick.

CELESTE, THE UNSEEN BOOK 2, continues Eleanor’s story as she tries to mainta ...more

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	Eleanor (The Unseen, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Finger Trap 4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celeste (The Unseen, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	David (The Unseen, #3) 4.49 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Kings, Queens and Colonies 3.72 avg rating — 67 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things Bequeathed 4.60 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Immortal Hand 4.37 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beatrysel 4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thicker Than Water: A Tony Flaner Mystery 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Wake of Captain Lord: A Tony Flaner Mystery 4.65 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2024 Read Books

It’s time for my annual Blog post.

Here’s what I read during 2024. My total this year is 74 books. Most were audible books which has inspired me to finally put my books into this media. Stay tuned.

The List — Books I Read in 2024:

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty

To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour

Split Second, David Baldacci

The Warrior’s Path, Louis L’Am

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“She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.”
― Johnny Worthen, Beatrysel

tags: demons, love, magick, rejection

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“The perplexity, the potential— God’s own crucible was not for angels.”
― Johnny Worthen, Beatrysel

tags: angels, crucible, demons, god, magick, occult

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“Do what you can, when you can.”
― Johnny Worthen, The Brand Demand

tags: activism

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