It’s been a journey, for sure. From the initial concept of it back in secondary school, Space Race Championship has always been special to me. The one I wanted to see out in the world. I wanted people to enjoy the world I had crafted. The characters that inhabited it. And so many years later, so many reworks of the story, it was ready. Yet I self-published to the Kindle Store back in 2019, certain that I would never get it out to the world any other way.

Yet, last year, sending it to a publisher, they accepted. See, I’d never lost the hope of wanting Space Race Championship to be a book in stores. To see it on shelves. Foreshore Publishing accepted, and since July, the anticipation of seeing it on store shelves has been rising. Each update on progress further fuelling that anticipation. Until now. Seeing it on the websites of the first stores to get it. Knowing that next week, it will be found on store shelves.

I’m super happy that the dream is now real. That it is out in the world for all to enjoy. It’s got such a great cover art that really catches the eye. Promotion is starting to get going, including an A2 poster of that cover for the first 100 orders from the publishers website. Discussion of a store appearance for me. I’ve got a few things I’m planning, too. What those are, I won’t say yet. But it will be more than just previews from the book. The first preview will come later in the month, focusing on a part around where the publisher has taken their quote for the back of the book.

Space Race Championship is priced at £9.50, and can be ordered directly from Foreshore Publishing. Links to Waterstones and Foyles, the first two bookstores getting the book, can be found there. Starting next week, more bookstores will be getting it, along with Amazon. I’ll be sharing in the excitement whenever I see people have been reading it, along with sharing a few photos of my own when I find Space Race Championship in a bookstore myself.