Antony Johnston

The cover of a comic book called The Fuse. It’s a red cover with bold white text.

“F is for…”

The Fuse by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social and @justingreenwoodart.bsky.social.

A great police procedural, just set in the future on an advanced space station. A street-level crime drama that’s more Mass Effect than Law and Order.

Oh, yes! I’d forgotten, but I do remember reading that at the time

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Oh, so you’re actually talking about a single line? You said paragraph, so I was looking for a whole graf that seemed different. Assuming you’re talking about the “picked through” line, that does look a teensy bit more tightly set, but it’s very subtle. It could just be to avoid hyphenation.

Obviously you’re right that this does happen, but are you sure about it in this specific case? None of those look especially tightly set to me, and the final graf even has room to spare. I’d expect to see much tighter tracking and word spacing if they’d dropped in a correction.

A good suit can hide a multitude of sins 😉

You can't tell but I'm wearing my Moomins pocket square in these pics 😁

At the Bloody Barnes Cob & Pen Award dinner earlier this month I had the very good fortune to sit opposite photographer Vicki Sharp, who took these rather flattering pictures and was great fun to chat with. A lovely evening all round 👍
www.vickisharpphotography.com

This cyberpunk Metroidvania co-written by a Resident Evil veteran also wants to be an RPG with romance, and I went from "this looks cool" to "I need this right now" playing the Steam demo Altered Alma only takes a few minutes to turn into something very cool

"Jack is quippy but not grating, and the character interactions I've had have been a mix of sweet and serious. For a limited demo, I'm remarkably invested."
Great write-up of the @alteredalma.bsky.social demo on Steam:
tinyurl.com/26xktlat

This cyberpunk Metroidvania co-written by a Resident Evil veteran also wants to be an RPG with romance, and I went from "this looks cool" to "I need this right now" playing the Steam demo Altered Alma only takes a few minutes to turn into something very cool

"Jack is quippy but not grating, and the character interactions I've had have been a mix of sweet and serious. For a limited demo, I'm remarkably invested."
Great write-up of the @alteredalma.bsky.social demo on Steam:
tinyurl.com/26xktlat

A day in the life of the mobile library serving the people of the Beara Peninsula in Cork Librarian Zillah Ní Loideoin and driver Seán Crowley have been working together for 16 years, bringing books to schoolchildren, nursing homes, book clubs and individual homes around Co Cork

Speaking of The Dog Sitter Detective, Gwinny does turn up in the oddest places… like this Irish Times piece on a community-focused mobile library in Co Cork:
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

A photo of the title page to the (as yet untitled) fifth Dog Sitter Detective book in a Scrivener project

A photo of the progress tracker from the Scrivener project for the fifth Dog Sitter Detective book. It shows 1,314 words written this first session. The target for the whole book is 70,000 words.

Well, here we go. Easing into it… #DogSitterDetective 🐶🔍

*One* of??

Dark red background with a 3D image of the paperback novella for David Quantick's IMAGINE A FRIEND, with text: From Emmy Award Winner David Quantick "A powerful and loving ode to lost youth. Quantick captures the emotional turmoil of childhood brilliantly." - Antony Johnston, creator of Atomic Blonde IMAGINE FRIEND. Preorder Now March 10 2026 Illustration of wisteria and autumn leaf Stars and Sabers Publishing logo

Out March 10, @quantick.bsky.social’s IMAGINE A FRIEND is “A powerful and loving ode to lost youth. Quantick captures the emotional turmoil of childhood brilliantly.”
— Antony Johnston, creator of Atomic Blonde
Preorder your copy of this nostalgic fable novella today!
#books #literature #fantasy

A poster drawn by me featuring the videogame versions of Camina Drummer and Chrisjen Avasarala in the new Telltale Games Expanse game series. The poster is divided by the orbits of the inner planets of the solar system (and Ceres), with each alternate segment switching between one of two backdrops. In one, we can see bodies and wreckage floating in space, with Jupiter in the background. Drummer stands in the foreground in her space suit. In the other, we can see the logo of the UN on a stone office wall above a desk and flag stand, with Avasarala in the foreground, looking at a UN video drone floating to her left. She is wearing a purple top with gold embroidery.

I did a poster to celebrate the SDCC announcement that Shohreh Agdashloo is joining Cara Gee in The Expanse: A Telltale Series! Available at the Premium Posters Hall in the convention centre. Can't wait to play this game.

#alaska ☺️

I'd been going regularly since 2001. Almost 20 years, until covid brought that to a halt… and then all this happened. Nope

People not wanting to come is real. I used to visit the US 2-3 times every year, both for vacation and to attend comic-cons. I have good, longstanding friends there, and an audience for my work whom I used to love meeting. Absolutely zero chance of me visiting again until this shit gets fixed.

Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

BREAKING: Xbox boss Phil Spencer is stepping down, will be replaced by Microsoft AI platform president Asha Sharma. Sarah Bond is also leaving. Matt Booty staying.

Seismic news for the video-game industry.

Get 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social preorders for the second Can You Solve the Murder? instalment, "The Forest of Death", until midnight tomorrow! Just use code FEB26 at checkout: www.waterstones.com/book/9780857...
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Get 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social preorders for the second Can You Solve the Murder? instalment, "The Forest of Death", until midnight tomorrow! Just use code FEB26 at checkout: www.waterstones.com/book/9780857...
#WPreorder @transworldbooks.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Countries that do not embrace wacky waving inflatable tube men could be "left behind," says Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man Emporium's Al Harrington.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Trying out the Yorkshire Pasta Company's mezze maniche rigate in a home-made spicy tomato & basil sauce with vegan chorizo and veg. Verdict: 😋

(I didn't actually like D&D that much, the rules always felt horribly clunky even when I was a kid, but the Jeff Easley covers of those old AD&D editions absolutely mesmerised me)

Antony's desktop, with a tiled image of the cover to the hardback edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide from 1983, featuring a cloaked dungeon master opening a large set of doors to reveal treasure and monsters behind

Current desktop wallpaper. My desktop is set to randomly pull an image every 15 mins from a folder I maintain. Clearly this afternoon it's feeling old school 🎲

Following a previous near-miss thanks to Bramwell's inexplicably putting their lamb & veg soup in a green tin (!) we now have to resort to the sharpie method 😅

Of course. Why would you invest in soft power?

It just helps in the kind of warfare that:

a) Russia has shown it's actually good at;
b) Russia is waging on the West already;
c) The UK/NATO nuclear deterrent is useless in preventing;
d) Costs a fraction to fund compared to military hardware.

Two separate, incredibly bright rainbows within 30 secs of each other while out walking today 🌈