Darren Johnson

My first published novel was way back in the early 1990s and titled "I Do Not Prefer to Have Sex." It's half humor, half shock value. I wrote it in college, it was picked up by a small publisher, and some copies are still in print on used book sites. They sell for a lot, for some reason. I would greatly re-edit it, if I were to re-release it in e-book form, but I'd rather work on other projects.

This book actually was the warm-up to "The Dead Hut," as the main character is pretty much the same person, just at different points in their lives. Catty in "The Dead Hut" is a bit more fleshed out, and serious, compared to Kayla in my first novel.

I took a year off of my day job at a college to write one heck of a literary/crime novel. I really can't divulge the details, but it's the most original and intensive work I've ever accomplished. I am going the traditional route, with a New York agent and, hopefully, major publisher on this one.