Ringing in the New Year

Well it almost time to say goodbye to 2010 and to welcome in 2011.


I need to extended a massive thank you to all of the people who have been interviewed, who have guest blogged or who have helped me out over the course of 2010 - thank you so much for your help. A massive thanks, too, to all of the blog followers old and new for hanging out, for commenting and for tweeting / facebooking / reccommending my blog to anyone you think might find some use from what we do here.


The Literary project has some awesome stuff lined up for the New Year, and I hope you folks hang out for the ride! As well as the usual interviews with writers and industry professionals, I've done my best to accommodate all the suggestions made by you lovely folks over the last few months. We have book jackket designers, festival organisers, marketing specialists, writers, agents and publishers lined up over the next few months, all helping to give you more insight into the publishing industry.


So, because I am way too excited to keep this list to myself any longer, let me officially announce that 2011 will be kicking off with some of the following posts (in no particular order):


Harry Bingham, author and conference organiser, will be giving us the inside scoop on the up and coming York Festival of Writing,


Marketing guru Ruth Seeley of NoSpinPR will be discussing promotion and marketing for newbie writers,

Awesome artist & illustrator Neil Roberts will be talking about book jacket design,

James Swallow, the man whose career I am desperate to steal, will be talking about his uber powerful, multi-stringed bow of writing,

Yours truly will be reviewing the latest edition of Kate Walker's 12 Point Guide to Writing Romance (sneak preview: it's very good).

The fantabulous debut novelist Talli Roland will be stopping by to tell us all about her bid to get the ebook version of her novel The Hating Game, into the top fifty of Amazon's download chart with zero marketing budget,

Young Adult novelist extraordinaire, Keris Stainton, is coming to chat to us about her book Della Says: OMG! and the issues around addressing taboo subjects in YA fiction,


The lovely writer and blogger Marian Perera is guest blogging about how to maximise your chances of getting your new novel reviewed,

and and and.....


and I think that's enough spoilers, don't you ;-)

So if that list has tempted you to come hang out here at the Project for the next year, I promise you that you won't be disappointed.

Happy New Year everyone, may you build on your experiences of 2010 and make 2011 the awesomest year you've had yet xxxxxx

Getting ready for the New Year

Hi all,

first off an apology for not posting any interviews this month. Due to some unforseen health problems (of a minor but extremely inconvenient nature) I am behind with the Project. As such, we will be taking a holidy this month, but will be back with a bang come January. I already have interviews lined up with some writers, festival organisers, book jacket designers and I'm working on the agents. Please keep sending me any suggestions for topics and interviewees, or get in touch if you are interested in doing a guest post like those by John Lambshead and Roni Loren.

Thanks for you continued patience and support - I look forward to the second year of the Literary Project :-)

I interviewed Talli Roland's alter-ego, Marsha Moore, a few months back on the literary Project. Her debut novel, The Hating Game, is released today, and Talli is making a concerted effort to see her book rise up the Amazon download chart. I am all for debut novelists - in fact, any type of novelist - being proactive about their own marketing, and I am watching this experiment of Talli's with interest; I would love to see a debut writer hitting the top ten on Amazon on their Publication Day... Talli doesn't know this yet, but I intend to get her to give us a run down of the success of this endeavour.

So, without further ado:

HELP TALLI TAKE ON AMAZON!

Help Talli Roland's debut novel THE HATING GAME hit the Kindle bestseller list at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk by spreading the word today. Even a few sales in a short period of time on Amazon helps push the book up the rankings, making it more visible to other readers.


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Coming soon in paperback. Keep up with the latest at www.talliroland.com.



About THE HATING GAME:



When man-eater Mattie Johns agrees to star on a dating game show to save her ailing recruitment business, she's confident she'll sail through to the end without letting down the perma-guard she's perfected from years of her love 'em and leave 'em dating strategy. After all, what can go wrong with dating a few losers and hanging out long enough to pick up a juicy £2000,000 prize? Plenty, Mattie discovers, when it's revealed that the contestants are four of her very unhappy exes. Can Mattie confront her past to get the prize money she so desperately needs, or will her exes finally wreak their long-awaited revenge? And what about the ambitious TV producer whose career depends on stopping her from making it to the end?