![]() ![]() He lives and works in England.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:27:10 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA107716 Boxid_2 CH112201 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st American ed. He wrote and directed the film CROSSOVER POINT, made entirely in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.Īn experienced podcaster and public speaker, he also frequently writes articles on the life of an author, and is a prolific musician.Īntony is a former vice chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, a member of International Thriller Writers and the Society of Authors, a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge, and sits on the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s videogames committee. His immense body of work also includes Marvel superheroes such as DAREDEVIL and SHANG-CHI, the ALEX RIDER graphic novels, the post-apocalypse epic WASTELAND, and more. His work on SILENT HILL ASCENSION made him the only writer in the world to have contributed to all of gaming’s ‘big three’ horror franchises. ![]() And his productivity guide THE ORGANISED WRITER has helped authors all over the world take control of their workload.Īntony is a celebrated videogames writer, with genre-defining titles including DEAD SPACE, SHADOW OF MORDOR, and RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE to his credit. The BRIGITTE SHARP spy thrillers are in development for TV. His murder mystery THE DOG SITTER DETECTIVE won the Barker Book Award for fiction. The Charlize Theron movie ATOMIC BLONDE was based on his graphic novel. If you do, you can tweet me your thoughts at I hope to hear from you!Īntony Johnston is one of the most versatile writers of the modern era. It's a book about words as much as murder, about writing crime as well as solving it.ĭo let me know what you think. But at the same time, The Word is Murder offers something more. With a bit of luck you won't guess the ending (nobody has so far). I hope, if you read it, you'll enjoy all the clues, the red herrings, the bizarre range of suspects and the occasionally violent twists. What I'm trying to do is to give the traditional whodunit a metaphysical twist. But here I am, writing a book in which I have no idea what's going on, following in the footsteps of a character who refuses to tell me anything. The whole point of being an author is that you're in control. At least, that's my version of events and that's what counts here because, very unusually, I actually appear in the book as his not entirely successful sidekick the Watson to his Holmes. It introduces a detective by the name of Daniel Hawthorne - a rather dark and dangerous man whom I actually met on the set of Injustice. ![]() The Word is Murder is hopefully the start of a long-running series. Somewhere along the way, I also created a five-part series for ITV called Injustice which very much influenced the book I'm publishing now. I was the first writer on Midsomer Murders and then went on to create Foyle's War which I worked on for the next sixteen years. After cutting my teeth on the hugely popular show, Robin of Sherwood, I moved on to work with David Suchet and his brilliant portrayal of Hercule Poirot, writing about nine or ten episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say. An original thriller, Magpie Murders was published last year and got some of the best reviews I've had. This began with two Sherlock Holmes continuation novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty, followed by my entry into the world of James Bond with Trigger Mortis. I have plenty of other children's books out there - I was delighted to discover my Power of Five series (Raven's Gate, Evil Star etc) on sale in a tiny bookshop in Elounda, Crete only a few days ago.īut as I grew older (and my original audience entered their twenties) I felt a need to move into adult writing. There were eleven more books in the series - the latest, Never Say Die, was published in 2017 - and they are now being developed for TV. The game changer for me was Stormbreaker, the first Alex Rider adventure, published in 2000. Perhaps it helped that I wasn't much good at anything else.Ĭut forward to the present and now I have over forty-five published novels to my name. I knew without any doubt that I would be an author. Every time I write a new book, I have the same sense of urgency that I had then. In fact I wrote my first book when I was ten, stuck in a miserable, north London boarding school where reading and telling stories were my only lifeline. It just shows how quickly times have moved. It's strange to think that when I wrote my first book, there was no Amazon - in fact there was no internet, no computers. ![]()
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