There were many editors and agents that asked for revisions and resubmissions but she just could not get any offers.

Even though Johnson had all manner of ideas and wrote several manuscripts, she queried “If I Fix You” her debut novel for nearly a year with no success. He had gifted his parents a DNA testing kit that was used to unearth the fact that they had an unknown brother. For “The First To Know,” her second novel, she got the idea when her father sent her an article about a man that unwittingly destroyed his family. It was an image of a girl sitting on her roof at night leaning over to speak to the boy next door. She was inspired to write “I Fix You” by a scene that had been marinating in her head for months. With his encouragement, She published her debut novel “If I Fix You” in 2016.Ībigail Johnson is inspired in the writing of her novels by all manner of things that happen to her and around her. Johnson took every English class he taught and rediscovered her passion and talent for writing. At the college, she ended up becoming close to the professor that headed the English department. Fortunately, she had a friend that suggested she enroll in a community college class while she figured out what to do with her life. She had tried and failed at becoming an author and was now lost on what to do. At seventeen, she was involved in a car accident and became a tetraplegic which completely changed her life. Her next attempt was a coming to age story about a girl from her home state of Arizona but this also did not go anywhere. Her first attempt was an Indiana Jones-style adult adventure novel that turned out to be a total failure. It was not until she went to college that she thought that maybe she could pursue a career as a professional author as she was taking a course in Creative Writing. Her second novel “Even If I Fall” was just as successful as it won the Junior Library Guild selection.Ībigail has always loved writing and was writing little things as a child. Her debut novel “If I Fix You” was published in 2016 and she had never looked back since. Since her accident, she has engaged in writing and directing Cinderella, a high school production, body surfed in Mexico and become an award-winning author. Even though he broke her neck in an accident while she was a seventeen-year-old, that never stopped her from becoming a professional author. She did not have an inkling that she would become an author but she chronicled the road trip across the country on a spiral-bound notebook that is still on her bookshelf. Johnson was born in Pennsylvania but when she was twelve, her family moved to Arizona preferring the all-year-round summers to the snowstorms. Abigail Johnson is a bestselling young adult fiction and romance author from Arizona.

Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson