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.
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…
www.booktrust.org.uk
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)
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 12:43 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)
Think you misspelled “lied” there, Forbes
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Think you misspelled “lied” there, Forbes
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The making of Blood Bowl!
My latest video is live a little later than planned, but there’s always extra time for the great fantasy sports game ever!
#WarhammerCommunity
youtu.be/PFzvFV1zyvQ
My latest video is live a little later than planned, but there’s always extra time for the great fantasy sports game ever!
#WarhammerCommunity
youtu.be/PFzvFV1zyvQ
The Beginnings of Blood Bowl
YouTube video by Jordan Sorcery
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The making of Blood Bowl!
My latest video is live a little later than planned, but there’s always extra time for the great fantasy sports game ever!
#WarhammerCommunity
youtu.be/PFzvFV1zyvQ
My latest video is live a little later than planned, but there’s always extra time for the great fantasy sports game ever!
#WarhammerCommunity
youtu.be/PFzvFV1zyvQ
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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Another Christmas read gifted by @allisonandbusby.bsky.social #TheDogSittersDetectivesChristmasTail by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social 🐾🎁 Perfect for curling up under a blanket on a cold December day! 📚 Publishing on the 20th November! Review coming up in early December 💙📚
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Another Christmas read gifted by @allisonandbusby.bsky.social #TheDogSittersDetectivesChristmasTail by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social 🐾🎁 Perfect for curling up under a blanket on a cold December day! 📚 Publishing on the 20th November! Review coming up in early December 💙📚
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So they're going to do this for one, maybe two games. It'll be full speed ahead until it's 6 months from release and the game is falling apart, at which point they'll pay an insane overtime rate for a QA studio to do it last minute which won't be enough.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC
The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
So they're going to do this for one, maybe two games. It'll be full speed ahead until it's 6 months from release and the game is falling apart, at which point they'll pay an insane overtime rate for a QA studio to do it last minute which won't be enough.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve in The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail – on sale later this month, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍
www.allisonandbusby.com/book/the-dog...
www.allisonandbusby.com/book/the-dog...
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A CANINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY! Gwinny returns with a new dog, a new season, and a new murder to solve in The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail – on sale later this month, just in time for a stocking-filler 🎄🐶🔍
www.allisonandbusby.com/book/the-dog...
www.allisonandbusby.com/book/the-dog...
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AIPT becomes AITP, as ADVENTURES IN THRILL-POWER launches!
A regular column exploring the world of 2000 AD, we're starting with an all-hands roundtable on the new Judge Death Mega-Special - don't miss it! https://bit.ly/478U0hn
A regular column exploring the world of 2000 AD, we're starting with an all-hands roundtable on the new Judge Death Mega-Special - don't miss it! https://bit.ly/478U0hn
Adventures in Thrill-Power #1: Judge Death haunts the ‘2000 AD-verse'!
Welcome to your favorite new bi-monthly obsession.
aiptcomics.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
AIPT becomes AITP, as ADVENTURES IN THRILL-POWER launches!
A regular column exploring the world of 2000 AD, we're starting with an all-hands roundtable on the new Judge Death Mega-Special - don't miss it! https://bit.ly/478U0hn
A regular column exploring the world of 2000 AD, we're starting with an all-hands roundtable on the new Judge Death Mega-Special - don't miss it! https://bit.ly/478U0hn
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We've just launched the Kickstarter for my gamebook saga 'The Curse of Cthulhu Books 1 & 2'! Travel to a remote Scottish island, infiltrate a deadly cult and find the idol - or die trying!
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We've just launched the Kickstarter for my gamebook saga 'The Curse of Cthulhu Books 1 & 2'! Travel to a remote Scottish island, infiltrate a deadly cult and find the idol - or die trying!
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
"Don’t listen to pundits, listen to practitioners" is great advice for life in general, I find. Good piece here from @naomialderman.bsky.social.
(Also, as one of those trad-to-QuarkXPress designers back in the ’90s, I can confirm that's all true 😂)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
(Also, as one of those trad-to-QuarkXPress designers back in the ’90s, I can confirm that's all true 😂)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"Don’t listen to pundits, listen to practitioners" is great advice for life in general, I find. Good piece here from @naomialderman.bsky.social.
(Also, as one of those trad-to-QuarkXPress designers back in the ’90s, I can confirm that's all true 😂)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
(Also, as one of those trad-to-QuarkXPress designers back in the ’90s, I can confirm that's all true 😂)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...