E. K. Johnston | |
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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 |
Notable works |
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Website | |
ekjohnston |
Emily Kate Johnston, who publishes as E.K. Johnston, is a Canadian novelist and forensic archaeologist. [2]
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]
E. K. Johnston | |
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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 |
Notable works |
|
Website | |
ekjohnston |
Emily Kate Johnston, who publishes as E.K. Johnston, is a Canadian novelist and forensic archaeologist. [2]
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]