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Heads Up Audiobook Fans – TimeSplash is out tomorrow

Graham — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:33:30 +0000

I’ve got a miserable cold at the moment, so the brilliant news that the Audiobook version of TimeSplash will be released tomorrow by Iambik Audiobooks is a welcome piece of good news. (Squees feebly.) I’m going to crawl back into bed now (you know how bad man flu can be) but I’m hoping that, tomorrow, I can give you all the details. In the meantime, here’s the cover for the audiobook

and a link to the Iambik Audiobooks TimeSplash page.

More soon, I promise.

TimeSplash is Back

Graham — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:03:22 +0000

Well, after a brief period of unavailability, the ebook version of TimeSplash is finally back – and better than ever. Featuring a new cover, this is actually a second edition of the ebook. Some of the changes that were forced on me by my previous publisher – because of their “house style” – have now been undone. There weren’t all that many, but they have nagged at me, and now that I have control again, I’ve put the text back the way it should have been. I have to tell you, it feels great.

I’ve also set a new price. For those who bought TimeSplash at $5.50, I apologise. I had no control over that, either. Now the price is $4.50 – which is exactly what I pay for a large cappuccino at my favourite coffee shop. It seems reasonable to me that a full-length ebook should cost about as much as a cup of coffee, so I decided to use the “coffee standard” to fix the price. If my coffee shop puts up their price, so will I. (Don’t worry, they just had a 12.5% price hike, so I don’t expect any more rises for quite a while.)

I’ve published the ebook through Smashwords and the Amazon Kindle Store (link soon – Amazon takes longer than Smashwords to process a book). This makes two editions with two different ISBNs (so, for all the collectors out there, you probably want to buy one of each – trust me, your grandchildren will thank you). The Smashwords edition will also be released through Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Apple, Diesel, and Scrollmotion – but those links will take a while to come through too. I’m going to experiment soon with direct sales through the TimeSplash website and elsewhere – but that may be more trouble than it’s worth. Stay tuned and I’ll let you know.

Of course, the ebook edition has nothing to do with the print and audiobook editions which are due out very soon. Iambik Audiobooks tells me that late August/early September is the likely release date. eMergent press still has not confirmed a release date for print, but when they do, you will be the first to know.

The TimeSplash Cover Art Has Arrived

Graham — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:09:07 +0000

When I saw the email in my inbox this morning, I daren’t open it. I left it there until I had dealt with every other email before I clicked on it. The TimeSplash cover art had arrived at last and I was too scared to look.

One of the first things I noticed about the Lyrical Press list when I went to their online book shop was the gorgeous artwork. It was graphically striking and very sensuous. I showed the site to my daughter, who is herself a talented artist, and she described it as ‘soft porn’. Which made me notice just how much of it featured beautiful people in various degrees of undress. And then I started wondering what kind of artwork they would do for TimeSplash. It’s true that my main female protagonist is breathtakingly beautiful, and the young man who falls hopelessly in love with her could probably be drawn with hard abs in soft tones. Yet TimeSplash is a sci-fi book, and a thriller. That kind of treatment just wouldn’t be appropriate.

In my own imaginings of the cover, I had zeroed in on the time travel thing. At one point, my main characters are running around Edwardian London, creating havoc and looking like Hell’s Angels in frock coats. The picture in my mind of an elegant Edwardian gentleman wearing a full-face crash helmet and carrying a submachine gun, was a long way from soft-focus nudes draped langorously across one another. So I opened the JPEG with extreme trepidation.

The image I saw was nothing like what I had imagined – in my wildest dreams or nightmares – but I liked it! In fact, I like it a lot. If you want to take a peek, it’s down below. It’s also over on the TimeSplash website, which I have just updated in its honour.

I think what I like most about it are the fonts. They give just a hint of past times, a subtle intimation that there may be something steampunky going on. It’s also very brooding and tense.

So, tell me, do you like it too? Would this cover pique your interest in the book, or not?

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