Cameron Johnston

I'm going to be on the radio later this month! So that's a first for me.   Come and listen to me on BBC Radio Scotland, Wednesday 29th October between 3:30 and 4pm, talking to the excellent pair of Anna Welander and Len Pennie.

 First Mage On The Moon is coming! The cover for my next novel First Mage On The Moon has been revealed on reactormag.com and now you all get to see what I've been working on for the last while. Mages? Building magical rockets to reach space? What fun! If you, as an all-round awesome person would like to pre-order it before Launch Day on April 14th 2026, you can do so at the landing page Here. Ella Pickering has been stuck in a never-ending cycle of debt and pain. Formerly a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the great war between the Unity and the Ranneas Empire, she must now use a rickety old wheelchair after a devastating skyship crash. To pay off crushing medical debt, Ella works gruelling shifts making magical weapons for the research and design workshop, thinking of better days. A late night double shift means Ella witnesses an arcane experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. The device morphs into a crude rocket blasting straight for the moon, ultimate...

The Cymera festival in Edinburgh is always a highlight of the year! So many fabulous authors ribbing shoulders  This year, I will be on The Good Fight panel with the amazing Sebastien de Castell on Sunday June 8th, 2025.

I am  Delighted to see that I've had work included on the British Science Fiction Association awards longlist . Novel: The Last Shield published by Angry Robot Books Collection: Gallus, with my short story Gods of the Deepwood included Short Story: Birth of a Demonologist, published in Grimdark Magazine #37