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Another Two Book Deal With Angry Robot

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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 mysterio

The Maleficent Seven published

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 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 Amazon.com  https://www.amazon.com/Maleficent-Seven-Cameron-Johnston/dp/0857669087/ Amazon.uk:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maleficent-Seven-Cameron-Johnston-ebook/dp/B08N6TX8LN/ 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

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."   

The Maleficent Seven Cover Reveal

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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/

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.

A new book...

I have signed a contract. A new book is officially happening!  More news at some later point, when I can actually go into more detail...

The Butcher Queen

Just for some fun, SPFBO judge Timy has rounded up a bunch of authors (no idea who!) to write a free serialized story. Read  Part 1 of 'The Butcher Queen ', as I kick off this season of To Be Continued... I started off this story, but other authors will carry it on and finish it - I have no idea how this story will end, but I can't wait to find out!