What is the title of your latest release?
THE SEA SPINNER (Reign of Remnants Trilogy, Book #2)
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Four elemental souls scattered to distant corners of their war-torn world must reunite and restore the balance of magic before it dies out completely.
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
Since this is a high fantasy trilogy, I was able to create a whole world from the ground up. I had a lot of fun designing the map for the series in tandem with writing the first book. The world building was actually one of my favorite things about crafting this series, constantly expanding, giving me an endless sandbox to play around in as more characters were added and plots grew more complex. Due to the nature of the story, I knew from the very start that the realm needed to be vast, with many different geographical formations, climates, and landscapes… all of which play a pivotal role in different ways. The battle scenes, for instance, are highly dependent on location, and their outcomes vary wildly because of the surrounding terrain.
Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
That sounds like an epic meet-up! My heroine Rhya Fleetwood is the wind weaver, also known as the Remnant of Air, which means she is capable of controlling the wind. That lends her some very cool powers. (She can fly!) And I love the duality of her personality. Like the wind itself, she’s both ethereal and destructive; life-giving as the breath in your lungs, but occasionally tempestuous. She’s complicated and imperfect and constantly growing… I loved creating her!
What are three words that describe your hero?
Magnetic, powerful, sardonic.
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
That emotionally devastating your readers will, in fact, emotionally devastate you as well. (I fully sobbed while writing the final chapters and cliffhanger in this one!)
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I draft. I’m constantly re-reading chapters, fleshing out scenes, tweaking word choices, restructuring sentences… Usually, I’ll start each writing day by editing whatever I wrote the previous session. It helps me get back into the flow of the story before I add anything new.
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Give me a crisp glass of sauvignon blanc, a caeser salad, and a side order of fries, and I’m a happy gal.
Describe your writing space/office!
Unfortunately for my spine, I am a couch writer. I never sit at a desk.
Who is an author you admire?
Too many to name! There are so many incredible writers who’ve built empires along the way, and who constantly use their platforms to uplift others in the industry. A few that spring to mind are Nora Roberts, Kennedy Ryan, Penny Reid, Rebecca Yarros, Ali Hazelwood… I could go on and on.
Is there a book that changed your life?
ELLA ENCHANTED by Gail Carson Levine. I probably read it a hundred times when I was a kid. (At one point, I’d memorized the entire opening chapter and could recite it aloud!) It’s definitely one of the books I associate with first falling in love with reading.
Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published). Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
While I’m now both traditionally and indie published, I self-published my first novel when I was still a college student, way back in 2013. I’d written it in secret over the course of my junior year and published it on a bit of a lark, certain no one would ever bother to read it. To my utter shock, people did! I was able to pay off my student loans before graduation and never got a so-called “real” job. Fast forward thirteen years… and here we are, twenty books later, in 2026.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Fantasy. And thrillers. (I love a good whodunit.)
What’s your favorite movie?
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
What is your favorite season?
Nothing beats autumn in New England.
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
I was born on July 3rd, so my birthday is almost always rolled into the Independence Day holiday. I typically spend it with friends and family at the beach, having a barbeque, and watching the fireworks.
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
My favorite book in recent memory was THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow.
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
I love Italian food. My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy, and I will forever associate those spices/smells/flavors with family.
What do you do when you have free time?
I like to sail in the summers or sit on the beach with a good book. In the winters, I enjoy skiing… or escaping the cold by traveling somewhere warmer than Massachusetts!
What can readers expect from you next?
The third (and final) book in the Reign of Remnants trilogy will be released in February of 2027. I’m so excited for everyone to read the epic conclusion to this story!
THE SEA SPINNER by Julie Johnson
Bursting with reawakened magic, a young woman challenges the tides of fate in this highly anticipated installment of Julie Johnson’s romantasy series.
Something changed for Rhya Fleetwood in the battle of Fyremas. Her untrained power feels both heavy with grief and volatile, crackling with each pulse of her simmering rage. Caeldera lies in ruins. Her friends are dead or wounded. And Pendefyre, their newly crowned king, is shutting her out. The Remnant of Fire needs all his focus for his kingdom, his people, and—perhaps more than anything—his insatiable need for revenge.
When a twist of fate leads Rhya to the last place she expected—the Water Court—the novice wind weaver is forced to confront the limitations of her power as well as her increasingly complicated relationships. For enigmatic King Soren of Llŷr is as different from Penn as sparks are from the sea. The more insight he offers into the maegic that binds them together, the more confused Rhya feels—about her future as a Remnant, about her deepest desires, and about her role in the coming war.
Enemies circle close, ready to strike. And if Rhya isn’t careful, she’ll lose more than just her heart.
She’ll lose her life.
Romance Romantic | Romance Fantasy [ Ace, On Sale: April 28, 2026, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593817889 / eISBN: 9780593817896 ]
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About Julie Johnson
JULIE JOHNSON (born July 3, 1991) is a New England native and internationally bestselling author. When she’s not writing, Julie can most often be found adding stamps to her passport, drinking too much coffee, and avoiding reality by disappearing between the pages of a book.
She published her debut novel on a lark, just before her senior year of college, and she’s never looked back. Since, she has published twenty other novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen different languages and appeared on bestseller lists all over the world, including Der Spiegel, AdWeek, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and more.
Julie graduated from the University of Delaware in December 2013, one semester ahead of schedule, with two B.A. Honor’s Degrees in Psychology and Mass Communications. She now hopes to put off the real world for as long as possible by writing full-time.
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