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April 14, 2024
The Last Shield news
Hi all, I have some good news about publication progress on The Last Shield.
Audiobook
The audiobook is progressing nicely - the way it usually works is that an author will get a handful of narrators with availability submitting a test-reading, and after a listen, I get to submit my preferences. I've indicated a strong preference on this one, with an amazing narrator who will make The Last Shield into an incredible audiobook.
Proof
The proof copy of The Last Shield has been read through and submitted to Angry Robot Books and everything is now in place and proceeding for publication on August 13th.
Something...Special
Something special is also coming, but I can't reveal it yet...but OOOOOHHHH.
Audiobook
The audiobook is progressing nicely - the way it usually works is that an author will get a handful of narrators with availability submitting a test-reading, and after a listen, I get to submit my preferences. I've indicated a strong preference on this one, with an amazing narrator who will make The Last Shield into an incredible audiobook.
Proof
The proof copy of The Last Shield has been read through and submitted to Angry Robot Books and everything is now in place and proceeding for publication on August 13th.
Something...Special
Something special is also coming, but I can't reveal it yet...but OOOOOHHHH.
March 15, 2024
Darkest City: Head Games screenplay award
Well that was a nice email to wake up to:
Congratulations! Your screenplay, Darkest City: Head Games, placed as a Quarter Finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2023 Competition!https://lascreenplayawards.com/result/This was a fantasy screenplay I adapted from the world of The Traitor God, based on Head Games, the short story prequel to that novel.
January 24, 2024
Bargain Alert: Barnes and Noble have a whopping 25% off pre-orders of THE LAST SHIELD
Bargain Alert: Barnes and Noble have a whopping 25% off pre-orders of THE LAST SHIELD right now! (Premium members get an additional 10% off.)
January 19, 2024
The Last Shield - coming August 13th.
The cover for my next book, THE LAST SHIELD has just been released!
Coming August 13th.
The ancient forest realm of Sunweald is bordered on two sides by far mightier nations – a precarious situation. At its centre, the Sunweald Palace is home to the Lord Regent and the heir to the throne, together with numerous precious and powerful artefacts. The Palace is protected by the realm’s elite Shields, dedicated to guarding the royal line against all foes.A group of vicious brigands called the Wildwood Reivers have been stealing arcane artefacts and smuggling them across the borders, out of Sunweald. And the objects they most desire are stored in the mystical Wyrm Vault, hidden away deep in the bones of the earth, within the walls of the Palace itself.As political and religious tensions mount, Sunweald’s druids prepare to enact rituals for the Summer Solstice – but the Wildwood Reivers and their treacherous allies have other plans. It falls to Briar, the commander of the Shields, to defend the ancient corridors and secret tunnels of the Palace. The odds may be against her, but she’ll see every enemy head adorning a spike or she’ll die trying…
Angry Robot Books Preorder LINK
Are you a reviewer? Well the Angry Robot ARC access form is right HERE.
To add to the joy, the amazing people at The Broken Binding currently have a 50% off sale of my previous books! Click HERE.
Coming August 13th.
The ancient forest realm of Sunweald is bordered on two sides by far mightier nations – a precarious situation. At its centre, the Sunweald Palace is home to the Lord Regent and the heir to the throne, together with numerous precious and powerful artefacts. The Palace is protected by the realm’s elite Shields, dedicated to guarding the royal line against all foes.A group of vicious brigands called the Wildwood Reivers have been stealing arcane artefacts and smuggling them across the borders, out of Sunweald. And the objects they most desire are stored in the mystical Wyrm Vault, hidden away deep in the bones of the earth, within the walls of the Palace itself.As political and religious tensions mount, Sunweald’s druids prepare to enact rituals for the Summer Solstice – but the Wildwood Reivers and their treacherous allies have other plans. It falls to Briar, the commander of the Shields, to defend the ancient corridors and secret tunnels of the Palace. The odds may be against her, but she’ll see every enemy head adorning a spike or she’ll die trying…Angry Robot Books Preorder LINK
Are you a reviewer? Well the Angry Robot ARC access form is right HERE.
To add to the joy, the amazing people at The Broken Binding currently have a 50% off sale of my previous books! Click HERE.
January 18, 2024
Grimdark Magazine #37
Grimdark Magazine #37 is out this week, featuring a story of mine from the world of The Maleficent Seven!Titled 'Birth of a Demonologist', it serves as a little bit of an origin story for Black Herran's journey into wielding the terrifying powers of of Hellrath.
May 31, 2023
Another Two Book Deal With Angry Robot
Hi folks,After sitting on this news for a good while, it's all official now and announced by the Bookseller - Angry Robot have bought two more standalone books from me!
Angry Robot has bagged a two-book deal from Cameron Johnston including The Last Shield, a "high-octane adventure" novel.Publisher Eleanor Teasdale acquired world English language rights from Ed Wilson at Johnson & Alcock in a five- figure deal. The Last Shield will be published August 2024."Cameron Johnston is the go-to for fantasy books that cut your throat and break your heart, and The Last Shield is no exception," said Wilson. "It’s a high-octane adventure story told with all his trademark bloodshed, energy and humour."The Last Shield follows Briar, the commander of the shields, who must defend the palace, and its artefacts, from the "vicious brigands" known as the Wildwood Reivers. The novel is being pitched as "gender-bent ’Die Hard’ set in a mysterious castle". Johnston’s previous book The Maleficent Seven (Watkins) was published in 2021 but he is also known for the Age of Tyranny duology. He commented: "After the amazing reader response to The Maleficent Seven, I am incredibly happy to be working again with Angry Robot on The Last Shield, best pitched as a bronze-age ’Die Hard’ in a castle.”Teasdale added: "If you have read Cameron before you know that you are in for nothing but a marvellous time and this book delivers 10 fold — The Last Shield is a one-sit read for me — nigh on impossible to put down."
Angry Robot has bagged a two-book deal from Cameron Johnston including The Last Shield, a "high-octane adventure" novel.Publisher Eleanor Teasdale acquired world English language rights from Ed Wilson at Johnson & Alcock in a five- figure deal. The Last Shield will be published August 2024."Cameron Johnston is the go-to for fantasy books that cut your throat and break your heart, and The Last Shield is no exception," said Wilson. "It’s a high-octane adventure story told with all his trademark bloodshed, energy and humour."The Last Shield follows Briar, the commander of the shields, who must defend the palace, and its artefacts, from the "vicious brigands" known as the Wildwood Reivers. The novel is being pitched as "gender-bent ’Die Hard’ set in a mysterious castle". Johnston’s previous book The Maleficent Seven (Watkins) was published in 2021 but he is also known for the Age of Tyranny duology. He commented: "After the amazing reader response to The Maleficent Seven, I am incredibly happy to be working again with Angry Robot on The Last Shield, best pitched as a bronze-age ’Die Hard’ in a castle.”Teasdale added: "If you have read Cameron before you know that you are in for nothing but a marvellous time and this book delivers 10 fold — The Last Shield is a one-sit read for me — nigh on impossible to put down."
August 10, 2021
The Maleficent Seven published
It's Release Day
I could not be happier that The Maleficent Seven is out today! All that blood, sweat and Writer's Tears did not go to waste. It's been a wild ride, writing such a bombastic thrill-ride of a book with all these bigger than life characters who hate each other.
I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
Cameron Johnston
Smart URL: http://smarturl.it/themaleficentseven
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096W4FWJL/
Amazon.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maleficent-Seven-Cameron-Johnston-ebook/dp/B096W4FWJL/
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-maleficent-seven/cameron-johnston/9780857669087
The Broken Binding: https://www.thebrokenbinding.co.uk/product-page/the-maleficent-seven-cameron-johnston
I could not be happier that The Maleficent Seven is out today! All that blood, sweat and Writer's Tears did not go to waste. It's been a wild ride, writing such a bombastic thrill-ride of a book with all these bigger than life characters who hate each other.
I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
Cameron Johnston
Smart URL: http://smarturl.it/themaleficentseven
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096W4FWJL/
Amazon.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maleficent-Seven-Cameron-Johnston-ebook/dp/B096W4FWJL/
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-maleficent-seven/cameron-johnston/9780857669087
The Broken Binding: https://www.thebrokenbinding.co.uk/product-page/the-maleficent-seven-cameron-johnston
May 1, 2021
Locus Reviews The Maleficent Seven
Locus Magazine have reviewed The Maleficent Seven!
Spoiler: they loved it. "Coarse, crude, bloody, brutal, and utterly over-the-top...A go-big-or-go-home delight."
February 17, 2021
The Maleficent Seven Cover Reveal
Thanks to Tor.com for hosting the Cover Reveal for The Maleficent Seven, out on August 10th.
https://www.tor.com/2021/02/17/cover-reveals-cameron-johnston-the-maleficent-seven/
October 2, 2020
The Maleficent Seven
The news is out! My new book, The Maleficent Seven, will be published next year by Angry Robot.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/johnston-returns-angry-robot-third-title-1220963
The synopsis:
Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen and a twisted alchemist. Together they brought the whole continent to its knees... Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.
Forty years later, she must bring her former captains back together for one final stand, in the small town of Tarnbrooke: the last bastion against a fanatical new enemy tearing through the land, intent on finishing the job Black Herran started years before.
