A new logo on the spine.

After just six months as an ebook from Lyrical Press, TimeSplash has been picked up by publishing house Big Bad Media and will soon be appearing in Print and as an Audiobook.

I can’t tell you how excited I am about the deal I have just signed with Big Bad Media. This is a new and very energetic multimedia publishing house, based in Denmark and run by ex-pat Brit, Greg McQueen. (You may well know them for their amazing success with 100 Stories for Haiti, which is still helping to raise money for that devastated country.) Greg is a big fan of techno-thrillers and his enthusiasm for TimeSplash is both gratifying and energizing.

I have been working with the amazingly talented YA author, Emma Newman, to record the audiobook for a couple of months now and I’m pretty sure you’ll like the result. Emma’s podcasts of her own novel “Twenty Years Later” gathered a huge following on her blog Post Apocalyptic Publishing – not just because it is a great book (which it is), but because of Emma’s unique voice – and I am extremely lucky that she was keen to record TimeSplash. If you’ve read TimeSplash already, you’ll know what I mean when I say she gives just the right tone of vulnerability and toughness to Sandra’s character.

The audiobook should be available in just a few weeks as an iPad/iPhone app (with lots of added extras) and shortly after that it will be available through Audible.com and other leading online retailers. I just can’t wait to hear what you all think of it! Before then, though, Big Bad Media will make a pre-release version available. This will happen in the next day or two. If you are considering buying the audiobook of TimeSplash, you might want to grab the pre-release as it will be significantly cheaper than the full release when it arrives. We’re rushing this out partly because we just can’t wait to get it out there, partly so that it will be ready in time for WorldCon next week, and partly because we know people love a bargain.

The print version of TimeSplash should be out before Christmas. So start making a list of all the people who would like to receive a copy from Santa

One really special thing about this for me is that my daughter, Becky, who is a graphic designer (among many other things,) had already done a design for a TimeSplash cover, and when I showed it to Big Bad Media, they liked her work so much they asked her to do both the print and audiobook versions (as well as a couple of other books they are about to publish!) I’m going to be so proud of my book for so many reasons.

Lyrical Press will continue to publish the ebook edition, so if you were planning to feed your Kindle, don’t worry, it is still available.

You can probably tell what a big deal this is for me. Being in print and audio means TimeSplash has access to between ten and thirty times the audience that it has had as an ebook (depending on whose figures you believe). That means a lot more people will read it and that, at the end of the day, is what writing it was all about.

I’ll keep you posted when the pre-release is available and then when each of the new editions arrives in the shops.