Red-Handed: the Big Result!

Cover by Pye Parr...

Hey chaps-slash-chapesses,

You probably remember how, a couple of months ago, we announced a thrilling new experiment in publishing. Jonathan Green's eighth Ulysses Quicksilver book, Time's Arrow, is being released in three parts, and you - yes, you - yes, actually you right now, sitting there and reading this; I can see you, you know - can download each part as a separate mini-ebook and vote on the direction of the next part.

So you read the blog post, you bought the book (in the US or UK), you read and loved it, and you voted. And I want to thank you all. We've been really pleased with the response.

And that response, overwhelmingly - by a ratio of something like four to one - has been for Option B: Ulysses goes in search of the mysterious "M. Lumière."

Outstanding.

So, there you go. Green's been given his marching writing orders, and you get to wait a couple of months as he rolls the next one out for you to vote on. This is shaping up to be pret-ty exciting.

And it's not too late to get involved! Buy Red-Handed now, catch up, and wait with bated breath like the rest of us for Black Swan to come out, and next time your vote can be counted! It's like we're playing a massive game of Fighting Fantasy! Whee!

Time's Arrow: Red Handed (US Kindle Store)

Time's Arrow: Red Handed (UK Kindle Store)

Time's Arrow: Red Handed (US iTunes Store)

Time's Arrow: Red Handed (UK iTunes Store)

 Kick ass.

David

New Website! Also, Time's Arrow LIVE NOW!

Cover by Pye Parr...

Hey all,

So as you've probably noticed - what with how everything looks all shiny and different on the website (of course, you may only ever read these updates directly on Blogger, in which case may God have mercy on your wretched soul) - the new, shiny website is up and looking pretty damn pretty.

It should also be up to date and everything, but let us know if anything is out of date or isn't working.

And, of course, beautifully timed to coincide with the new update...

BREAKING NEWS

So as you may have noticed on Jon Green's Pax Britannia blog, or on the Pax Britannia facebook page or group, or on Amazon - if you're in the habit of tracking Amazon to see if any highly-anticipated new products have hit the shelves (you know who you are; all hovering over the screen in your darkened room, cathode glow playing over your pallid features, feverishly pounding the f5 key as you wait for that special something you've been waiting for to finally come up as available) - or, hell, on the website, where there's a whole full-screen ad for it and everything, the first part of Pax Britannia: Time's Arrow is here!

Yeppers. It's available through the Kindle store in both the US and UK, and should come online in the iTunes store presently, for less than a pint of beer.

Pax Britannia: Time's Arrow, Part One, "Red-Handed" (or Pax Britannia: Time's Arrow: Red-Handed, for those of you who don't mind the ol' double-colon) comprises the first nine chapters, or roughly a third of the final book. The second and third parts are due out early next year.

And, for the first time in ebook-publishing history, you, the readers get to tell the story.

...sort of.

Buy the book, read it, then follow this link - or just click the massive VOTE NOW button on every page of the Abaddon Books website - and vote on where the story goes next.

Pretty cool, huh?

Do it now. Buy. Read. Click. Vote. Bosh.

David

TIME FOR A CHANGE: Abaddon Books introduces a new direction for genre publishing

Abaddon Books is delighted to announce a bold new venue in genre publishing – one where the readers are in charge!

Time’s Arrow will be the latest book from the world’s longest continuously running Steampunk novel series, Pax Britannia. Set in a world where the Victorian age never ended, Pax Britannia is an insane world of high technology and rip-roaring adventure.

The big difference with Time’s Arrow? Each instalment will be published as an ebook and, at the end of each of the first two, readers will be able to vote on where THEY want the story to go. Once all three instalments have been published, they will be bound together into a print edition.

The first part of the book will go live online on October 11th, with the vote for what happens next closing on December 11th.

Merging the best of print and online, Abaddon is proud to engage in such an exciting experiment – one where readers actively have a say in how the book is written.

Jon Green has written titles in the legendary Fighting Fantasy series and created seven of the critically-acclaimed Pax Britannia books for Abaddon.

“Pax Britannia is one of Abaddon’s most established series,” said Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief of Abaddon Books, “so it seemed like the natural choice for such a unique venture in publishing. This adventure is sure to reach out to new readers while giving established fans a say in the rich universe they have come to love.”

“I am passionate about the whole Steampunk milieu, and the world of Pax Britannia in particular, while my first forays into writing professionally were adventure gamebooks,” says Jonathan Green. “To marry elements of both is a fantastic opportunity for me as a writer and I, for one, can't wait to see how the story pans out!”

About the Series
Pax Britannia launched in 2007 with Unnatural History. A steampunk alternative history set in a late twentieth century in which Queen Victoria – now nearing the end of her sixteenth decade on the throne, and wholly dependent on steam technology for survival – rules over the vastly wealthy, powerful and decadent Empire of Magna Britannia. Airships ply the skies overhead as gentlemen of leisure admire the dinosaurs in London Zoo, while the Empire has extended to the Moon. Across the pond, the United Socialist States of America, loosely allied with the might of Magna Britannia, is home to dreamers, poets, madmen, and heroes, poised to usher in a new era.

The series has included seven books by Jonathan Green, featuring the adventures of Ulysses Lucian Quicksilver, dandy and adventurer and agent of the throne; an omnibus collecting the first three is currently available.