Traci Harding is a Science/Fantasy Novelist, published through HarperCollins/Voyager Australia and Bolinda Audio. Her work blends fantasy, fact, esoteric theory, time travel and quantum physics, into adventurous romps through history, alternative dimensions, universes and states of consciousness.
Since its release in 1996, The Ancient Future Trilogy has had over fifty reprints, three editions and was released as an omnibus in 2014. The first book of the series made the ABC’s list of “the Most Loved Books of All Time” (2010) and “Australia’s Top 100 Homegrown Reads” (2013). The Ancient Future became an Australian best-seller in its first month of release, and in 2014 the omnibus shot into the Amazon US top 5 Science/Fantasy books. Every Harding novel since the Ancient Future has debuted in the top 10 on the Science/Fantasy best-sellers list soon after publication. Traci has sold in excess of a half a million books in Australia alone.
The first book of The Timekeepers – Dreaming of Zhou Gong, was selected as one of the “50 books you can’t put down – National Get Reading Campaign 2013”. The Timekeepers trilogy was released in paperback in UK throughout 2017 via Harper360. Dreaming of Zhou Gong and The Storyteller’s Muse were also released in paperback in the US through Harper360.
Along with The Alchemist’s Key, The Ancient Future has been published in Complex Chinese. The Mystique Trilogy has been published in Russian, Czech, Slavic, Greek and Romanian. All of Traci’s works are also available as audio books through Bolinda Audio.
The prequel to The Ancient Future Trilogy – This Present Past – was released through HarperCollins/Voyager Australia and Bolinda Audio in November 2018.
The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Ancient Future Trilogy was released by Brio Books in Paperback and as a Limited Edition Hardcover Box Set in 2022.
The Ancient Future Trilogy is currently under option to Film Brand Management London and is being developed as a TV series.
Traci has released two exclusive Audio Book releases through her own bookstore allthingstraci.com.au – that are part of her Storytime Series on Patreon, written and read by Traci herself. Valley of a Thousand Flames ran as a monthly series on Patreon in 2021 and had a retail release in early 2022.
Stellium ran on Patreon as a monthly series in 2022 and had a retail release in 2023. Season 2 of Stellium is currently releasing monthly on Traci’s Patreon, and will be released through the All Things Traci store in 2024.
Traci’s latest book, The Twelve Chapters of the Infinite Night, was released in paperback in December 2022. The E-book followed in March 2023 and the Audio Book in July 2023. This title was also minted as an NFT collection through US based blockchain publishers, book.io, making Traci the first Australian Fiction Author to publish on the Cardano Blockchain.