Cameron Johnston

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...

 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

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 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.

Coming on February 18th from Főnix Könyvműhely - the Hungarian translation of God of Broken Things. It's always incredibly cool to see my writing published in other languages, though it feels deeply odd I can't read it.

Some more reviews of God of Broken Things   are in, and they are good! Phew, it's always nerveracking waiting to see how a book will be received. God of Broken Things: Review by Jon Karoll Review by Grimdark Magazine And a bonus review of The Traitor God  here on CulturaColectiva .

It's alive, ALIVE! It's a real living book! God of Broken Things has arrived at the Angry Robot megacorp HQ. heh, I see what they did there...

Sending a new book out into the world is a pretty nerve-racking time - I never know how it's going to be received. I would have thought that it might be easier the second time around, but apparently not. Fortunately the first few advance reviews of God of Broken Things have been good. Phew! *wipes sweat off my brow* The amazing Nick T Borrelli just posted a truly amazing Five ***** review of God of Broken Things . And no, not's not a censored sweary word... Check it out below: Cameron Johnston is an author who writes exactly the types of books that I really enjoy.  Heavy on the magic, violently action-packed, with plenty of thrills punctuated by characters who don't always behave the way you expect them to.  Cameron's first book in his Age of Tyranny series The Traitor God was one of my favorite reads of 2018.  It immediately grabbed my attention when I first read it and I've been eagerly anticipating book two so that I could get right back into this amazing...

I have a doubler in this month's Grimdark Magazine #18 : a short story, Hatred For Heroes, and an interview. I'm overjoyed to be sharing a cover with such great writers.

Happy Birthday to the Hungarian translation of The Traitor God! Az áruló isten.

The Traitor God is coming to audiobook on December 4th and pre-orders are now up. And there was much rejoicing! Audible Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk

A productive weekend of writing means God of Broken Things has been finished and sent off to my editors at Angry Robot. Now the wait to hear back begins. I hope they like it even more than The Traitor God! In an odd moment of synchronicity, The Fantasy Inn have just posted the cover reveal for God of Broken Things, paired with a post about swords in fantasy.

Hey folks, My James White Award finalist short story, The Dying Glass is out now in Deep Magic Fall 2018 Deep Magic have posted a Feature on it to give you an idea what the story has to offer you: This is an amazing short story! We loved so, *so* many things about this fantastic tale: the religious system based on glass, the 11-year old Cara who is deaf and uses a secret finger-talk language with her mother, and how the plot and tension build throughout. And we absolutely love the language! Here's a little sneak peek: "The first rays of the summer solstice struck the spires of the fabled Mirror Tower, causing golden dawn light to ripple through the crystalline walls, scattering points of light, starbright, all across the nave. Cara stared in awe, nausea forgotten. The cathedral vibrated underfoot as priests and dignitaries lifted their voices in prayer. The Dying Glass by Cameron Johnston is an amazing story of glass, a mother's love, gods, demons, recorded ...

And lo the rough draft of God of Broken Things (The Traitor God 2) was finished and sent off to his agent for comments! Next he must face the valley of the cutting edits and traverse the dark forest of rewrite...*sigh* Lucky I enjoy writing 😛

My good friends at Angry Robot have announced the sequel to The Traitor God. Colour me excited with a proper party hat on! Tentatively titled, God of Broken Things, the novel will be dropping in June next year and sees your favourite antihero Edrin Walker back in the midst of all that terrible, beautiful action. Here’s the synopsis: Tyrant magus Edrin Walker destroyed the monster sent by the Skallgrim, but not before it laid waste to Setharis, and infested its magical elite with mind-controlling parasites. Edrin’s own Gift to seize the minds of others was cracked by the strain of battle, and he barely survives the interrogation of a captured magus. There’s no time for recovery though: a Skallgrim army is marching on the mountain passes of the Clanhold. Edrin and a coterie of villains race to stop them, but the mountains are filled with daemons and magic, and Walker must stop at nothing to win, even if that means losing his mind. Or worse… For those of you who’ve yet to have rea...

If you haven't already seen the news posted on Angry Robot's website  then let me enlighten you by repeating it below: We’ve got some great news for our buddies over in Europe! Excellent grimdark novel The Traitor God by Cameron Johnston is going to be translated into both Hungarian and Czech! In Hungary the translation rights have been acquired by Főnix Könyvműhely, with the book being published sometime within the next year. Czech folks will see the translation published by Euromedia Group sometime within the next two. We told Cameron, and once he’d woken up from his dead faint asked him to give us a couple of words on the deals. Here he is: “When my book was published several people said they were going to borrow it through their local library – whoa, my book being in a library gives me all the feels. As a kid I spent so much in mine time picking out and reading armloads of books. It is a wonderful feeling that mine has now joined the others on those hallowed shelves...

The Traitor God has been unleashed upon the world! A city threatened by unimaginable horrors must trust their most hated outcast, or lose everything, in this crushing epic fantasy debut. After ten years on the run, dodging daemons and debt, reviled magus Edrin Walker returns home to avenge the brutal murder of his friend. Lynas had uncovered a terrible secret, something that threatened to devour the entire city. He tried to warn the Arcanum, the mageocracy who rule the city. He failed. Lynas was skinned alive and Walker felt every cut. Now nothing will stop him from finding the murderer. Magi, mortals, daemons, and even the gods – Walker will burn them all if he has to. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time he’s killed a god... Available now from: Angry Robot Amazon.com Amazon UK Waterstones Barnes and Noble Book Depository

So, so, so...yesterday this mysterious box arrived while I was out. What could it be? I certainly couldn't find out for the next ten hours. NGHHHhhhhh! So frustrating. Of course I did have a pretty good idea what would be inside. *had fingers crossed they hadn't sent me somebody else's books*. OH! Look at that. It's my book. It's really real. Such a surreal but wonderful feeling to see a box -a whole box!- of my own books, then to pick one up and feel its weight in my hand, turn it over and read the back as if I was browsing the shelves of a book shop. What a wonderful moment :)

It's Alive. ALIVE! Thanks to Angry Robot for teasing us all with a little preview of The Traitor God in actual real-life 3D paper book format. Behold! Feel the grimdark terror and lust for swords and sorcery seeping into your bones. Witness the fearsome might of my national animal! (The unicorn is Scotland's national animal. Really. How cool is that :D )