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Blog postSo, my new super-swanky website is now up and running at:
carolejohnstone.com
Please visit to find out more about my debut gothic suspense novel, Mirrorland, coming out in April 2021 from Borough Press in the UK and Scribner in the US.
And as a thank you and welcome, all new subscribers to the site will receive an exclusive short story set in the world of Mirrorland, and will automatically be in with a chance of winning a UK or US advanced proof copy of the novel it -
Blog postCOMING SOON!....
In April 2021, my debut novel, Mirrorland, will be published by Borough Press (HarperCollins) in the UK & Commonwealth and by Scribner (Simon & Schuster) in the US & Canada.
(With translated editions in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, S. Korea, and Brazil.)
I'll be launching a new website at https://www.carolejohnstone.com around September/October 2020.
Hopefully see you there! x -
Blog postAnd now Skinner Box is available for FREE from Tor.com website!
(Apologies to those who have already spent their 94p/$1.19--I didn't realise it would be free on Tor, honest guv...)
https://www.tor.com/2019/06/12/skinner-box-carole-johnstone/
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Blog postSkinner Box is out today!
This will be my first novelette from Tor.com, a publisher I've wanted to be published by for years. I am VERY pleased!
A bit of a departure for me, Skinner Box is a sci-fi story about a seemingly routine scientific mission to Jupiter that goes horribly wrong--in the most part, because of the crew.
Be warned, it's full of sex and violence (why, oh why can I never say that without immediately thinking "...a heavy bass line is my -
Blog postI've been hugely busy for months now, and have neglected a lot more than just this poor blog. Even this post is only going to be a flying visit for now.
A few publishing updates:
My short, The Eyes are White and Quiet (originally published in Titan Books' New Fears), is to be reprinted by Prime Books' Year's Best, 2018, edited by Paula Guran.
My novelette, Better You Believe, about an ill-fated climbing expedition in the Himalayas, gets first billing (and r -
Blog postJust a few writing related updates:The Eyes are White and Quiet is a short story I wrote some time ago. It was recently announced as part of the New Fears 1 anthology, edited by Mark Morris, and out from Titan Books on the 19th of September. I believe it’s going to be officially launched at FantasyCon in the same month, and I’ll post availability when that’s announced. Meanwhile, here is the relevant page on Titan Books' website.And here is a preview of the front cover:
My short sto -
Blog postMy novelette, Wetwork, was the headliner of Black Static, Issue #52. Link to buy here.
I was very excited slash shitting myself about its reception as I really went all out on it. When that works, it really works. And when it doesn't...y'know. But I figure it's always too easy to stay where you are, doing what you do, especially when it's going ok. Writing every new story should be a challenge, but it should be a different challenge. I've played it safe plenty of times in the past, but sto -
Blog postNot quite sure how I forgot to post about this, but still managed to whinge lyrical (and extensively) about Myself-In-General. Probably answered my own question there...
Anyway, here it is: my short sci-fi Romeo and Juliet story, Circa Diem, which appeared in Interzone #262, published in January. I love Interzone, and always feel like a clod-hopping interloper whenever I'm lucky enough to get a gig. The artwork (courtesy of Richard Wagner) is as amazing as ever.
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Blog postI'm way behind, as usual, with everything, so a few housekeeping posts and then I promise, something that's not go here! look what I did! buy this! etc
Firstly though: go here! Look what I did!
"King For A Year is a 12-month project that allows a wide variety of readers, writers, fans and reviewers a chance to discuss Stephen King works that mean a lot to them." It is curated by fellow writer and BFA nominee, and all round lovely bloke, Mark West, and I jumped -
Blog postThe Best Horror of the Year, Vol.7, edited by Ellen Datlow is now available to buy in the US and the UK. I last had a story selected for this brilliant series back in 2010 with Dead Loss, and although I’ve had a few honourable mentions in the years since, I’m so pleased to be reprinted again.
This time, the story is called Departures, and it was selected from my short story collection, The Bright Day is Done. (By happy coincidence, Dead Loss can also be found in the same collection. -
Blog postFor reasons many and varied - and not at all interesting - it’s been yonks since I’ve posted anything on here. My apologies to the half dozen or so folk who actually read it! (love you guys... ;-) )
My biggest - and tardiest - news is that I have been shortlisted for not one but two British Fantasy Awards! Amazeballs!! I was so sure that I’d be up for none (and this is genuinely true, not Uriah Heep true) that I didn’t even check out the announcements, and only ended up finding out on Face -
Blog postSo, there are a few. I'll blame laziness, with a side order of it always looks better when there's a list:
The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad, edited by Simon Clark and published by Constable & Robinson in the UK, is now available to buy in paperpack and ebook here.
It will be available from Running Press in the US on July 14th here.
It features my story, the Draugr of Tromso, and I'm especially happy about this one because it's my biggest mass market sale y -
Blog postI know that endless pluggage and lists of reviews/blurbs can be pretty tiresome (and I've certainly been giving FB and Twitter a hammering lately), so while I'm still sorely tempted to do all of the above, I won't. Instead, I'll list a few excerpts of the best ones here, and the rest you can (if you so desire) read in the News and Reviews section of this blog, or alternatively, follow the links to full reviews.
“Carole Johnstone’s Cold Turkey is darkly funny, assuredly written, and -
Blog postI can't believe that I forgot to post about this as I was deliriously happy to find out that Ellen Datlow had selected my short, Catching Flies, for her themeless Kickstarted anthology, Fearful Symmetries, to be published by ChiZine in May.
I can't boast of being one of the invited authors; instead, Ellen opened the antho to unsolicited submissions for three places, and I ended up getting one of them. I hear rumour that there were over 1000 subs during that month, so yay! And the To -
Blog postI love Interzone, and am so chuffed to have a story in it for the second time, when I'd long thought I'd be lucky to appear in it even once.
Sci-fi isn't particularly my 'thing', and Ad Astra is definitely proper sci-fi (in a way that God of the Gaps perhaps wasn't), so it was a bit of a labour of love. It's a novellete too, and it's accompanied by possibly the best illustration of any of my published stories. I know I nearly always say that, but bear with me:
Way -
Blog postBlack Static #35 is out now, featuring my short, If You Can Read This, You're Too Close.
As ever, the illo that goes along with it is fab; I love it (this time, by Geoffrey Grisso). It's always really interesting - and sometimes, surprising) - to see how an artist has interpreted your words. In this case, to perfection! And definitely far superior to any idea I could have come up with...
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Blog postFor The Night Is Dark, the new horror anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing, is released today, and my story, 21 Brooklands: next to Old Western, opposite the burnt out Red Lion (and breathe!) features.
I've been looking forward to reading this one, as it includes many authors whom I admire, including Gary McMahon, Stephen Bacon, William Meikle and Ray Cluley.
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Blog postThe brilliant Black Static is out now to buy here - and even better (for me at any rate) - I'm in it!
This will be my 8th appearance in this wonderful magazine and hopefuly not my last. The story, Signs of the Times, was a bit of a bugger to write, but *she says quietly* I'm more proud of it than anything else I've ever written, I think.. Which is a bit of a surprise (and would have been an even bigger one had I known that while wanting to bash myself over the head with the PC -
Blog postSo, it's been a while, and one of these days I'll get around to actually writing a blog post rather than the odd promotional bulletin every once in a blue moon. Until that day however...
The rather brilliant Black Static #30 is out to buy from next week, featuring (you've guessed it) a story from me. It's called Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling. And sometimes I do. Writing that story was one of them. It was a bit of a leap for me and I wasn't sure that it was going to work, but in the -
Blog postWell, here it is in all its glory! Mailng out this week...
Made the front cover for the very first time (well, 'my' story illo did). Woo hoo!
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Blog postWow, will you look at that? Amazing artwork by Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Hope folks think that my story does it justice!
Black Static #28, available to buy from April here. -
Blog postYay, my first every sci-fi sale! Never thought I'd get into Interzone, so very pleased (if a bit late in saying so...!)
Behold (with great artwork, as always; this time by David Gentry):
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Blog postHere's a sneaky peek at the artwork for my latest short, The Monster of Venice, to appear in the next issue of Black Static: #26, out in December.
So pretty, I had to post it!
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Blog postA very excited me recently received an email from Sarah Langan(!), telling me that my short story, Electric Dreams, had been recommended for a Stoker. Cue much excitement, and "there's no point getting excited yet"s...
Anyway, should anyone be interested in reading Electric Dreams, it's available in its entirety here.
Fingers crossed for the ballot, and then the one after that etc...
Titles By Carole Johnstone
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Aug 20, 2019
by
Ellen Datlow,
Dale Bailey,
Nathan Ballingrud,
Aliette de Bodard,
Richard Bowes,
Pat Cadigan,
Siobhan Carroll,
F. Marion Crawford,
Indrapramit Das,
Terry Dowling,
Brian Evenson,
Gemma Files,
Ford Madox Ford,
Jeffrey Ford,
Alice Hoffman,
Carole Johnstone,
Stephen Graham Jones,
Richard Kadrey,
John Langan,
Alison Littlewood,
Bracken Macleod,
Nick Mamatas,
Vincent J. Masterson,
Seanan McGuire,
Garth Nix,
Joyce Carol Oates,
M. Rickert,
M. L. Siemienowicz,
Lee Thomas,
Paul Tremblay,
A. C. Wise
$7.99
Fearful Symmetries
Jul 21, 2020
by
Ellen Datlow,
Caitlìn R. Kiernan,
Garth Nix,
Laird Barron,
Nathan Ballingrud,
Michael Marshall Smith,
Gemma Files,
Bruce McAllister,
Gary McMahon,
Pat Cadigan,
Helen Marshall,
Terry Dowling,
Stephen Graham Jones,
Brian Evenson,
Jeffrey Ford,
Robert Shearman,
Kaaron Warren,
Catherine MacLeod,
Siobhan Carroll,
John Langan,
Carole Johnstone
$7.99
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018 Edition
Sep 17, 2018
by
Paula Guran
$6.99
Other Formats:
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For the Night is Dark
Mar 28, 2013
by
Jeremy C. Shipp,
Armand Rosamilia,
Gary McMahon,
G.N. Braun,
Blaze McRob,
William Meikle,
Scott Nicholson,
Jasper Bark,
Joe Mynhardt,
Robert W. Walker,
Tracie McBride,
Kevin Lucia,
C. Johnstone,
Robert Walker,
Stephen Bacon,
Daniel I. Russell,
Benedict J. Jones,
John Claude Smith,
Tonia Brown,
Mark West,
Ray Cluley,
Crystal Lake Publishing,
Ross Warren
$0.99
Other Formats:
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