E. K. Johnston
Canadian novelist and forensic archaeologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emily Kate Johnston, who publishes as E.K. Johnston, is a Canadian novelist and forensic archaeologist.[2]
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| Born | Emily Kate Johnston Huron East, Ontario, Canada[1] |
| Occupation | Novelist, forensic archaeologist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genre | Speculative fiction, young adult fiction |
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Johnston started writing fan fiction in 2002, and wrote her first manuscript in 2009.[3] Her first book, The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim, was published in 2014, and is set in an alternate present-day Ontario where dragons are both real and a menace. The review in The New York Times called the book "a clever first step in the career of a novelist who ... has many more songs to sing",[4] it was nominated for the William C. Morris Award in 2015.[2] A sequel, Prairie Fire, followed in 2015.
Johnston's third book was A Thousand Nights, a retelling of One Thousand and One Nights. C.S. Lewis's descriptions of the desert in The Horse and His Boy inspired Johnston in writing her own novel set in the desert.[5] A companion book, Spindle, followed in 2016, which was a reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty.[6]
Her fifth novel, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, was published in 2016. Inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, it tells the story of cheer-leading captain Hermione Winters, who discovers she is pregnant after being sexually assaulted at a camp party. It was written partially as a challenge, and partially as a response to Stephen Woodworth's 2013 bill to re-criminalise abortion.[7] It was named a "Book of the Year" by several organisations, including NPR,[8] Publishers Weekly,[9] and the New York Public Library.[10] It won the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Amy Mathers Teen Book Award in 2017.[11]
A Star Wars fan,[12] Johnston was asked to write a book on the character Ahsoka Tano. Published in October 2016,[13] Ahsoka fills in the gap between her appearances in The Clone Wars and Rebels. Her second Star Wars novel, Queen's Shadow, was released in March 2019.[14] Featuring Padme Amidala, Queen's Shadow is set in the years between the events of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.[15] Additionally, she has also written the story By Whatever Sun, focusing on Miara Larte, a character Johnston created within Ahsoka, and set during the events of A New Hope.
Johnston describes her novel That Inevitable Victorian Thing as a "[n]ear-future Sci-fi Canadian Idealistic Romance".[16] It was published in 2017.
She credits her discipline in academic writing for helping her time management while writing prose; and states she is a fast writer, the composition ofA Thousand Nights taking "about 20 days",.[3] She advises early and young writers to learn to finish projects as practice in self-discipline and editing.[7]
Among her favorite authors are Jo Graham, Elizabeth Wein, Tessa Gratton, Kiersten White, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Eddings, C.S. Lewis,[3] and Holly Black.[2] She plays the alto saxophone and the clarinet.[2]
Johnston released another Star Wars novel, Queen's Peril, on June 2, 2020.[17]
Johnston is biromantic and demisexual.[18][19]
Novels
- The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim (2014)
- Prairie Fire (2015)
- A Thousand Nights (2015)
- Spindle (2016) (also published as Kingdom of Sleep)
- Exit, Pursued By A Bear (2016)
- That Inevitable Victorian Thing (2017)
- The Afterward (2019)
- Aetherbound (2021)
Short stories
- Work In Progress (2017) (in Three Sides of A Heart: Stories about Love Triangles anthology edited by Natalie Parker)
Star Wars
- Ahsoka (2016)
- "By Whatever Sun" (2017) (short story in From A Certain Point Of View anthology)
- Queen's Shadow (2019)
- Queen's Peril (2020)
- Queen's Hope (2022)
- Crimson Climb (2023)
Dungeons & Dragons
- Honor Among Thieves: The Druid's Call (2022)
- 2015: William C. Morris Award, shortlist (The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim)
- 2017: Amy Mathers Teen Book Award in 2017, winner (Exit, Pursued By A Bear)
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