Cameron Johnston

 Happy Book Birthday To Me! It's finally here, FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON has been published, available at all of your usual book emporiums. Let there be much rejoicing!

 The countdown to launch of First Mage On The Moon has begun and the the online review tour is under way! Check these fine folks out!

 The pre-order sale at @waterstones.bsky.social is on now, and FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON (out April 14th) is part of it!  Enter FEB26 at the checkout to receive 25% off the pre-order price. Offer ends at 23:59 on 20th February.  https://www.waterstones.com/book/first-mage-on-the-moon/cameron-johnston/9781915998064

 To welcome in the New Year, Barnes & Noble are running a 25% off preorder sale ! FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON is a part of that very sale! Use the code PREORDER25 to get 25% off; Premium members get an additional 10% off! Only until 1st January 2026

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

As part of the British Fantasy Society's fundraising auction for Save The Children, the mighty Allen Stroud put up an item that I ended up winning the bid for - a musical composition!   After some discussion, he went off and composed a special theme for my novel, The Last Shield.   Wrap your ears around this!

It is here! The Last Shield is finally available to buy at all your usual fine book emporiums! I'm am beyond excited for you all to meet Briar, and have a blast with my book. Amazon US Amazon UK Barnes and Noble Waterstones Angry Robot Books

It has finally arrived! The audiobook version of The Last Shield is now up on Audible for preorder: Audible.com Audible.co.uk

AHHHHHHHHHH My author copies of The Last Shield have arrived here in Glasgow from Angry Robot Books. What lovely, shiny title text and gilded name! And also author copies of my jaw-dropping special edition from The Broken Binding!

COVER REVEAL: New GSFWC anthology launching at Worldcon in Glasgow this August, feating one of mine: Gods of the Deepwood Periodically the GWSFC produces a publication to showcase our range and wonder. In the last few years we’ve had Thirty Years of Rain for our thirtieth anniversary and Flotation Device to raise money during the pandemic and many others previously including, for the first Glasgow Worldcon in 1995, Shipbuilding. Well, this year there is another Glasgow Worldcon and we have decided to produce a new anthology for that. It is called Gallus . Gallus is a Scots word meaning bold, daring or high-spirited, and often used to describe the people of Glasgow. We feel this equally describes the members of the GSFWC and their writing and we hope you will read our anthology and agree with us. Gallus contains 25 stories by current members, a snapshot of what the Circle and Glasgow speculative writing is producing in the space year 2024. There are writers who’ve been members f...

I guess the news is finally out - The Broken Binding are doing a special edition of my forthcoming THE LAST SHIELD What a gorgeous tome she is!

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.

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 lower-budget fantasy screenplay I adapted from the world of The Traitor God, based on Head Games, the short story prequel to that novel.

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.)

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 d...

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.

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...