Tim Johnston's Blog: Assorted Bookly Tidings

Thrilled to be launching another book at legendary hometown indie bookstore PRAIRIE LIGHTS tonight! Get the deets here: https://www.prairielights.com/live/ti...

Happy to report that the new novel (formerly known as With These Hands), is due to land on the American continent October 17, 2023! Time moves slowly in the book-making process, then…FAST!

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My new novel, With These Hands, will be published by Algonquin in late 2023 or early 2024

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Hugely honored, & very pleasantly surprised, to learn that THE CURRENT received the 2020 Midland Authors Award in Adult Fiction! My great thanks to the judges & to the Society of Midland Authors, & of course to my wonderful publisher, Algonquin Books.

Read about all the 2020 winners & honorees in all the categories here: https://midlandauthors.com/2020/05/midland-authors-announces-awards-for-2019-books/

Very excited to announce the release of Irish Girl, The Audiobook, today! Produced by Tantor Media and narrated by the wonderful tandem of Xe Sands & Angelo Di Loreto. For more, go to the Irish Girl & Audiobooks Page. Or go to Audible.com for an audio sample.

I’m thrilled to see The Current on these two Mid-Year Best Of lists!          Amazon and Powell’s Books

In the midst of the 2019 book tour, I sat down with Nashville Public Television host Mary Laura Philpott aboard the General Jackson to talk about currents. The result was this episode of NPT’s A Word on Words.

[Sneak Peak pics]

Surprised & thrilled to find this sentence in my email inbox this morning: “Tim Johnston’s Descent made our list of The 50 Best Suspense Books of All Time!” 

If you’re looking for your next suspenseful read–in any number of genres–check it out!

Lovers of suspense, I'm happy to share this sentence from my email inbox this morning:

"...Tim Johnston’s Descent made our list of The 50 Best Suspense Books of All Time!"

The "we" is Reedsy.com, the full list is a bit mind-blowing (The Shining, for instance!), & here's the link:

https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/bes...

Wrote this one for Lit-Hub, re: the changing of one's style from book to book...or even story to story.

https://lithub.com/on-the-problems-of...