Featured Interview With Chris Johnson
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m an Australian indie author who writes fast-paced science fiction and supernatural thrillers. My stories usually follow ordinary people who stumble into extraordinary situations—time travel, strange mysteries, and the occasional brush with the impossible.
I’m the author of the ChronoSpace time-travel series, which currently includes four novels: Bootstrap’s Journey, The Paradox of Buck Nowlan, The Titanic Connection, and The Legacy Unwritten. I’m also working on additional stories connected to the series and another one with an occult detective named Craig Ramsey.
When I’m not writing, I enjoy running, watching films, and occasionally drawing on my past life as a professional magician and mentalist.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My first book writing started when I was about 10 or 11. I took a blank exercise book and covered it in white paper, drew the cover art and the ISBN barcode. Then I wrote the story on the inside.
Later when I was 13, I wrote a superhero novel with my own original character. Again, that was in an exercise book too but I didn't go all out with the cover for it. Didn't want others from school seeing it and ruining it. As it was, they soon picked up what I was doing it and would often ask to see it as I went.
A few years later, I started another series with another character (same universe) who was an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation that turned him not-so-ordinary. I wrote five books with him in it that a few of my friends loved reading. One of them loved it so much that 15 years later, when he died, his wife told me he had often told him about the stories. That really stoked me.
I became more serious in 2016 when, after 5 years procrastination, I finally published Twelve Strokes of Midnight — an anthology of weird and wonderful tales. Think of it like Twilight Zone meets Black Mirror. Soon after, I realised one of its characters really twigged with me and I wrote him a cameo in what later became Dead Cell, my first supernatural thriller.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like reading Ian Fleming, John Gardner, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Traci Harding. But lately, I've also found some great scenes in Andy McDermott books.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, Before Bootstrap's Journey, tells how a lad discovers time-travel. But it's not just that, he has an emotional reason behind it. He wants to meet his parents again because they died when he was too young to remember properly. Along the way, his grandparents die too, increasing his intent to discover and create the time-machine that will let him do it. The trouble is that other parties, dangerous people, realise his intelligence and potential — and they intend to use it for themselves with dangerous consequences.
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