About the Author
Brent Johner is an award winning scholar and a published non-fiction author — books, magazines, newspapers, and scholarly publications.
Fiction genres in which he has worked as a critique partner in the past year include:
- literary fiction
- women’s fiction
- Western/neo Western
- noir/neo noir
- suspense
- thriller
- dystopian, YA dystopian
- horror, YA horror
- fantasy, YA fantasy
- witchy fantasy
- historical fiction (Ancient Greece)
He has also published more than 500 Voice & Vibe book reviews in the past few years on Goodreads, StoryGraph, Fable, Reddit, Tumblr, TikTok, Instagram, and other social media sites.
The Last Coffle
When a bounty hunter accidentally frees a coffle of enslaved children, he sparks a rebellion their families cannot hope to win.
The Last Coffle is a free non-commercial web serial inspired by David Milch’s Deadwood. New episodes are released regularly.
Noah
When the waters begin to rise, the people of a small town must turn for help to an odd loner their community has always shunned.
Noah is a stand-alone, commercial, literary fiction novel of ~80,000 words. Chapters are in progress. It will be ready to query in 2027.
Since Noah is is intended for commercial release, it will not be shared on this website. Only long term critique partners will have access to this material.