Antony Johnston
@antonyjohnston.bsky.social
Atomic Blonde, Can You Solve the Murder, The Dog Sitter Detective, The Exphoria Code, The Organised Writer, Resident Evil Village, etc. I write all the things. Reps: http://antonyjohnston.com/contact
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Antony Johnston
Award-winning author and creator of Atomic Blonde.
antonyjohnston.com
Lots of new followers. Hi!
I write all the things, too much to list in a single Bluesky post. Don't believe me, visit antonyjohnston.com 😂
Books, videogames, graphic novels, non-fiction, plus podcasts + music.
I mostly post about writing, sometimes food pics + bad jokes too. Big fan of dogs.
I write all the things, too much to list in a single Bluesky post. Don't believe me, visit antonyjohnston.com 😂
Books, videogames, graphic novels, non-fiction, plus podcasts + music.
I mostly post about writing, sometimes food pics + bad jokes too. Big fan of dogs.
London bound #TrainLife 🚆
(I’m delivering a keynote at AdventureX this weekend, then hosting two Can You Solve the Murder? Live events next week, at @waterstones.bsky.social London Piccadilly and Brighton)
(I’m delivering a keynote at AdventureX this weekend, then hosting two Can You Solve the Murder? Live events next week, at @waterstones.bsky.social London Piccadilly and Brighton)
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
London bound #TrainLife 🚆
(I’m delivering a keynote at AdventureX this weekend, then hosting two Can You Solve the Murder? Live events next week, at @waterstones.bsky.social London Piccadilly and Brighton)
(I’m delivering a keynote at AdventureX this weekend, then hosting two Can You Solve the Murder? Live events next week, at @waterstones.bsky.social London Piccadilly and Brighton)
SHOW US YOUR PUPS! With The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail now on sale, once again we want you to take a photo of the book with your dog – post it, tag me + #DogSitterDetective, and we’ll compile the best pics in a video for Xmas 😊🐶 (pic 2: grab from last year's vid)
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
SHOW US YOUR PUPS! With The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail now on sale, once again we want you to take a photo of the book with your dog – post it, tag me + #DogSitterDetective, and we’ll compile the best pics in a video for Xmas 😊🐶 (pic 2: grab from last year's vid)
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A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve! The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail is out now, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍 @allisonandbusby.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve! The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail is out now, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍 @allisonandbusby.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve! The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail is out now, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍 @allisonandbusby.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve! The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail is out now, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍 @allisonandbusby.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
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The NAP COMIX Kickstarter closes TOMORROW so if you've been thinking about pre-ordering my new book please do it soon!
It includes the 1st year's worth of comics from the webcomic, as well as LOADS of exclusive content.
Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/napcomixks
Thank you! (& please share!)
It includes the 1st year's worth of comics from the webcomic, as well as LOADS of exclusive content.
Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/napcomixks
Thank you! (& please share!)
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The NAP COMIX Kickstarter closes TOMORROW so if you've been thinking about pre-ordering my new book please do it soon!
It includes the 1st year's worth of comics from the webcomic, as well as LOADS of exclusive content.
Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/napcomixks
Thank you! (& please share!)
It includes the 1st year's worth of comics from the webcomic, as well as LOADS of exclusive content.
Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/napcomixks
Thank you! (& please share!)
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We’ve added one FINAL NEW DATE to the Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 Christmas Tour, at Waterstones Nottingham on Dec 11. Meanwhile, next week’s London and Brighton events have SOLD OUT 😲 So if you want to attend one of the others, hurry and book now!
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We’ve added one FINAL NEW DATE to the Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 Christmas Tour, at Waterstones Nottingham on Dec 11. Meanwhile, next week’s London and Brighton events have SOLD OUT 😲 So if you want to attend one of the others, hurry and book now!
We’ve added one FINAL NEW DATE to the Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 Christmas Tour, at Waterstones Nottingham on Dec 11. Meanwhile, next week’s London and Brighton events have SOLD OUT 😲 So if you want to attend one of the others, hurry and book now!
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We’ve added one FINAL NEW DATE to the Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 Christmas Tour, at Waterstones Nottingham on Dec 11. Meanwhile, next week’s London and Brighton events have SOLD OUT 😲 So if you want to attend one of the others, hurry and book now!
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A new arrival from Subterranean Press - with a beautiful cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social - this collects the vast majority of my short fiction to date, along with commentary on particularly noteworthy entries.
We’re delighted to announce The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social), a massive—37 stories, more than 600 pages—collection by the author of many acclaimed novels. Featuring a foreword by @scalzi.com. Full details and preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...
Announcing THE BEST OF ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY—Over 600 Pages!
We’re delighted to announce The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky, a massive—37 stories, more than 600 pages—collection by the author of many acclaimed novels, including Alien Clay, Shroud,...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A new arrival from Subterranean Press - with a beautiful cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social - this collects the vast majority of my short fiction to date, along with commentary on particularly noteworthy entries.
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading cosy crime novel The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social @allisonandbusby.bsky.social The book will be published later this week.
Review posted on Bookstagram www.instagram.com/p/DRK3FDJCDV...
Review posted on Bookstagram www.instagram.com/p/DRK3FDJCDV...
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed reading cosy crime novel The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social @allisonandbusby.bsky.social The book will be published later this week.
Review posted on Bookstagram www.instagram.com/p/DRK3FDJCDV...
Review posted on Bookstagram www.instagram.com/p/DRK3FDJCDV...
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
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November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Another fun evening last night hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 at a sold-out True North restaurant in Halifax, with Thoughtful Spot bookshop – the restaurant even printed special themed menus for the event!
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Another fun evening last night hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 at a sold-out True North restaurant in Halifax, with Thoughtful Spot bookshop – the restaurant even printed special themed menus for the event!
Once again @booktrust.org.uk, a UK charity which gifts books to disadvantaged children, is running its Christmas donation drive. I’ve been a BookTrust supporter for many years; please consider making a donation to this excellent cause 📚💖
www.booktrust.org.uk
www.booktrust.org.uk
Visit BookTrust
BookTrust transforms lives by getting children and families reading. We are the UK's largest children's reading charity. Each year we reach 3.4 million…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Once again @booktrust.org.uk, a UK charity which gifts books to disadvantaged children, is running its Christmas donation drive. I’ve been a BookTrust supporter for many years; please consider making a donation to this excellent cause 📚💖
www.booktrust.org.uk
www.booktrust.org.uk
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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I have book news!! Where We Stand, Where We Fall is now available to preorder from Herne Books:
New books for 2026:
@lizbethmyles.bsky.social Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The Politics of Doctor Who (March) tinyurl.com/2fjt279x
@lillcrawf.co.uk The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who (May) tinyurl.com/w5wcph68
Covers by Daryl Joyce.
#DoctorWho
@lizbethmyles.bsky.social Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The Politics of Doctor Who (March) tinyurl.com/2fjt279x
@lillcrawf.co.uk The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who (May) tinyurl.com/w5wcph68
Covers by Daryl Joyce.
#DoctorWho
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I have book news!! Where We Stand, Where We Fall is now available to preorder from Herne Books:
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For first time, scientists see the very early stages of a supernova reut.rs/47DUYCw
For first time, scientists see the very early stages of a supernova
The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious. Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a distinctive olive-like shape.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For first time, scientists see the very early stages of a supernova reut.rs/47DUYCw
Aspiring comickers! Learn from one of the best in a new online course:
I don't believe I've posted about this yet, and that's entirely my bad! In about a month's time we'll kick off with the introduction class for my online Comic Art course through ELVTR.🎇I'll be covering a lot of stuff, and have written new scripts for you!
Sign ups open!
uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...
Sign ups open!
uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...
Comic Art Course: Create Your First Professional Comic | ELVTR UK
Master the fundamental principles of sequential art, figure drawing, and character emotion with Emma Vieceli, who worked with DC Comics, Dark Horse, Titan Comics, Marvel, and more 🔴 Elevate your skill...
uk.elvtr.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Aspiring comickers! Learn from one of the best in a new online course:
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Adrian Tchaikovsky's acclaimed sci-fi series The Final Architecture is getting a graphic novel prequel, and Whovians may recognize the face of its clone soldiers, the Partheni.
First look at Doctor Who star Sophie Aldred in Adrian Tchaikovsky's graphic novel Salvation's Child (Exclusive)
Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Final Architecture sci-fi series is taking a leap to the past with the upcoming prequel graphic novel Salvation's Child, and for fans o
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Adrian Tchaikovsky's acclaimed sci-fi series The Final Architecture is getting a graphic novel prequel, and Whovians may recognize the face of its clone soldiers, the Partheni.
Talking to friends today I'm reminded of how in school I'd turn every creative writing task, no matter the brief, into a 10-page fantasy epic, or Star Wars fanfic, or essay on the dambusters, or whatever I was obsessed with at the time 😂 My poor teachers! Anyone else do that??
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Talking to friends today I'm reminded of how in school I'd turn every creative writing task, no matter the brief, into a 10-page fantasy epic, or Star Wars fanfic, or essay on the dambusters, or whatever I was obsessed with at the time 😂 My poor teachers! Anyone else do that??
"This just feels so fresh. Clear, distinct suspects, loads of secrets hiding under the surface… a perfect stocking filler"
Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 from The Puzzle Doctor:
Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 from The Puzzle Doctor:
It's dog sitting time again with a dead spy in a snowed-in house. Cracking new mystery from @antonyjohnston.bsky.social and @allisonandbusby.bsky.social #BookSky #Mystery
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The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail (2025) by Antony Johnston
Jobbing actor, some-time dog sitter and amateur sleuth Gwinny Tuffel is heading to an audition in Bath, with a director who she has a history with – and, after the first rehearsal, not much of a fu…
classicmystery.blog
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"This just feels so fresh. Clear, distinct suspects, loads of secrets hiding under the surface… a perfect stocking filler"
Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 from The Puzzle Doctor:
Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 from The Puzzle Doctor:
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
LONDON/BRIGHTON folks! In TWO WEEKS I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live at Waterstones Piccaddilly (Mon 24) and Brighton (Tues 25). It's a NEW ✨festive edition✨ of the interactive game, so come along and see if you'd make a good detective… 🎄🔍
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
LONDON/BRIGHTON folks! In TWO WEEKS I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live at Waterstones Piccaddilly (Mon 24) and Brighton (Tues 25). It's a NEW ✨festive edition✨ of the interactive game, so come along and see if you'd make a good detective… 🎄🔍
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
Garden visitor 🐿
(Excuse the crappy-phone-camera-zoomed-in quality, I was keeping my distance so as not to spook it)
(Excuse the crappy-phone-camera-zoomed-in quality, I was keeping my distance so as not to spook it)
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Garden visitor 🐿
(Excuse the crappy-phone-camera-zoomed-in quality, I was keeping my distance so as not to spook it)
(Excuse the crappy-phone-camera-zoomed-in quality, I was keeping my distance so as not to spook it)