twenty years later

The hardback edition of 20 Years Later is out now!

20 Years LaterIt’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here; the beautiful hardback edition of my debut novel 20 Years Later is on sale now.

Here’s the blurb from the publisher if you’ve just arrived and are wondering what on earth I’m talking about (also, welcome to Em’s Place!):

LONDON, 2012: It arrives and with that the world is changed into an unending graveyard littered with the bones, wreckage, and memories of a dead past, gone forever.

LONDON, 2032: Twenty years later, out of the ashes, a new world begins to rise, a place ruled by both loyalty and fear, and where the quest to be the first to regain lost knowledge is an ongoing battle for power. A place where laws are made and enforced by roving gangs—the Bloomsbury Boys, the Gardners, the Red Lady’s Gang—who rule the streets and will do anything to protect their own.

THE FOUR: Zane, Titus, Erin, Eve. Living in this new world, they discover that they have abilities never before seen. And little do they know that as they search post-apocalyptic London for Titus’ kidnapped sister that they’ll uncover the secret of It, and bring about a reckoning with the forces that almost destroyed all of humanity.

You can read the first five chapters here by the way.

The wonderful Gareth Powell (who wrote The Recollection which is one of the best sci-fi space operas I’ve read in a long time) said “A gripping search through the ruins of post-apocalyptic London. I was hooked from the first page.” – how cool is that!

As the publisher and distributor are American, it means lovelies here in the UK have a couple of options when it comes to buying it.

Online, there are the usual Amazon and Book Depository options, but I’ve arranged something with my favourite local independent book shop, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. The book is available right now on their website.

They will get a copy in for you and let me know so I can go and sign it, and then they’ll post out the signed copy to you. If you would like a dedication, I can put that on a custom bookplate (as soon as they are made – in the next week or so) that they’ll enclose with the book. The cost is £15.99 plus £3 postage and packing.

For my lovelies outside of the UK, I’m having special book plates designed for me to sign and send to you. I’d like to point you towards the very friendly Russo’s Books if you’d like to send your dollars to an indy bookstore. Here are their details, as soon as I get the bookplates they have kindly agreed to slip them inside the books if you buy from them.

Russo’s Books
9000 Ming Ave, suite I-4
Bakersfield, CA 93311
(661) 665-4686
www.russosbooks.com
russosbooks AT bak.rr.com

If you have pre-ordered a copy (a thousand blessings upon you!) and would like me to send you a signed bookplate when they’ve been made, just email me your details using the contact page and I will sign one and post it out to you. If you send a picture of you peeping out from behind it that would make me extraordinarily happy, and I’ll shout you out on the blog if you like!

I am planning some parties to celebrate in the New Year, everyone is just far too busy in the lead up to Christmas, so I’ll keep you posted on those too. You can always bring along your copy to get signed there too, in fact, it would be best for you to get your copy via one of the means described above as it’s so much harder for me to get a box of books for events (and they’re really heavy hardbacks!) and it would make my publisher happy too.

And if you’re getting an e-reader for Christmas…

20 Years Later has been out as an e-book for a little while now, here are the places you can find it.

Kindle: UK Store US Store

Nook  20 Years Later

Kobo   20 Years Later – someone has just told me (via Twitter) that it’s in the top 20!

A guided tour of the hardback edition

Under the dust jacket

As fellow book nerds will appreciate, one of the first things I did when I got my hands on a copy was look at the binding and then look under the dust jacket. The binding is exquisite – no glue here people – and look at what’s underneath the jacket.

Isn’t that gorgeous?

Have you read it already?

If you have, thank you. My publisher is a small press and I’m a debut author, so getting the word out there is very, very hard. If you enjoyed it, please let me know, and your friends! Also, the VIP list is just for you. And if you have two minutes spare to write a review for Amazon / Goodreads / Librarything, I would be immensely grateful. Just two lines and a rating go a long way to increasing a book’s visibility out there in this noisy world.

Hooray! It’s out there! Let’s eat ice cream!