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The Wave has gone to print…

After a few delays getting the right shade of black for the cover, The Wave has finally gone to print. Very excited to see the finished result and launch the book next month. Still finalising details for the launch event but probably somewhere in deepest, darkest Hackney. If you’re interested in coming along or have any suggestions for a venue drop me an email here and I will make sure to keep you updated with dates and times.

The word from Dead Ink is that the real hardbacks are shaping up to look pretty damn fine but in the meantime here is a 3D mockup…

Guest Author – Lochlan Bloom on Kickstarting Literary Publishing

Guest post is up on Isabel Costello’s super Literary Sofa site…

The Literary Sofa

Today’s post is a great follow-up to Tom Vowler on crowdfunding his collection Dazzling the Gods.  I’m amazed how difficult it is to get any book published but there are certain types of fiction which face additional hurdles due to preconceptions about what readers want.  This can lead to questionable assumptions and self-fulfilling prophesies.  Is everyone’s attention span really so fatally truncated that we can’t choose to filter out distractions and engage with narratives that demand and reward thought and attention? Does the reader/viewer need to have everything laboriously explained? Is it reasonable to claim there’s no market for material that is under-represented/promoted to begin with?

Today’s guest Lochlan Bloom has succeeded in bringing his work to readers by means of a collaborative project I hadn’t heard of before.  Here he shares his experience with Publishing the Underground and Dead Ink (my review of his novel The Wave

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Final typesetting for The Wave

I’ve not had time to post as much as I’d like recently but I wanted to share the title page from the final typeset proof of The Wave. Dead Ink have done an excellent job and I cant wait to see it in its physical form.

Everything is now looking pretty finalised and the files should be going to print soon so hopefully the first hardbacks will be coming off the presses in a matter of weeks.

More details to come about the launch but we are aiming to hold it somewhere in central(ish) London in March so keep your eyes peeled if you like either strange, new fiction and/or free wine….

Hej…

Lochlan Bloom is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. The BBC Writersroom describes his writing as ‘unsettling and compelling… vivid, taut and grimly effective work’.

He is the author of the novel The Wave as well as the short fiction pieces – Trade and The Open Cage and has written for IronBox Films, BBC Radio, Litro Magazine, Porcelain Film, EIU, H+ Magazine and Calliope, the official publication of the Writers’ Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa, amongst others.

The Wave – is published by Dead Ink Books as part of their New Voices series.

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“The writing is taut and stylish, the effect immersive and atmospheric: the whole work had something of a Kafka meets David Lynch vibe whilst retaining a distinctive personality of its own.”

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The Open Cage is available now from InShort Publishing

The Open Cage is out now as a limited-edition pocket book.

It looks (and feels) gorgeous and has been released by startup publishing firm InShort Publishing based in Melbourne, Australia. It is one of 18 limited-edition short chapbooks.

The book measures a teeny, tiny 140 x 90mm and at just 27 pages in length is an extremely short read!

Postage is free within Australia, and free for international orders of 5 or more books (currently posting to Europe, North America and New Zealand only).

http://www.inshortpublishing.com/shop1/uncategorized/the-open-cage/

 

Pre-orders reach 100%

Thanks to everyone that supported PublishingTheUnderground. It was tense as we approached the deadline but we did it in the end and reached 101.60%!

It has been really amazing to see so much interest in The Wave from readers all over the world. Hearing from people with no connection to the project who are interested in reading the book is really motivating and one of the exciting things about this project is that it really does seem to connect with readers in a new way. (more info about The Wave here: bit.ly/The_Wave)

It has been great to be involved with Dead Ink and watch the crowd-funding experiment take off. It reinforces the belief that people are inclined to take risks, they want to read things that challenge them, but too often the traditional model of publishing steers them away from the more challenging choices and just presents the same old ‘tried and tested’ commercial fiction.

Now looking forward to (and busy preparing for) the launch of The Wave in January. If you you know anyone that might be interested in the book or the project please, please do share and I will aim to keep updating via twitter (@lochlanbloom) 

So close to 100%. One day left to support PublishingTheUnderground

We are so close now. Its amazing to have watched the total rising over the last two months and now we have reached 86%! Thanks to all the support from everyone around the world. It has been great to be involved in Dead Ink’s crowd-funding experiment but its not finished yet. There is still one day and it would be great if we can reach 100%.

If you know anyone that might be interested in any of the books or the project please, please share this post or the project page at:

publishingtheunderground.com

 

The Wave audio – London Launch – PublishingTheUndergound hits 55%

Thanks to everyone that came along to the launch event  on Thursday. It was a fun night and a really interesting mix of people at Coate Studios.

Great to see so many people turn up even though none of the books even exist yet and thanks to everyone that pre-ordered! After the event we are now at  over 55% in the Publishing the Underground campaign.

Along with the other two authors in the campaign – Wes Brown and Harry Gallon – I  had the chance to do a short reading and there is a (very rough mobile phone) recording of it below. It is from the very opening of The Wave as μ returns home to find a sinister screenplay has arrived in the post from Brazil…

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mafsb64sl73f5sc/The%20Wave%20291015.mp3

 

If you are interested in pre-ordering a copy of The Wave every bit of support helps at the moment. For more information visit this page about The Wave and to pre-order visit: preorder.publishingtheunderground.com

Here are a few pics from the night of me, Wes and Harry reading.

We’ve hit 24%, help us reach the crowdfunding target

Great to visit Manchester for the first time yesterday and read at Dead Ink’s #PublishingTheUnderground event at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Thanks to everyone that came down and thanks for helping us reach 24% of our crowdfunding goal so far.

If you are thinking of getting any of the books then please do pre-order now as every one sold at this stage is really important, not only to reach the goal, but to make the whole project happen (if none of the three books look your cup of tea then please share the link below anywhere you can)

To recap on the Dead Ink crowdfunder:

Or for £30 you get all the above, plus:

—Both of the other excellent novels in Dead Ink’s New Voices list

—A Dead Ink T-shirt

—Your name printed inside as a supporter

For £12 you get:

— A beautifully produced, signed hardback edition of The Wave with artwork by Lola Dupre

—A Dead Ink tote bag

— Dead Ink membership

Visit PUBLISHINGTHEUNDERGROUND.COM select ‘pre-order’ then ‘support now’ and choose an option.

We’ve hit 24%, help us reach the crowdfunding target by 31st Oct

Great to visit Manchester for the first time yesterday and read at Dead Ink’s #PublishingTheUnderground event at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Thanks to everyone that came down and thanks for helping us reach 24% of our crowdfunding goal so far.

If you are thinking of getting any of the books then please do pre-order now as every one sold at this stage is really important, not only to reach the goal, but to make the whole project happen (if none of the three books look your cup of tea then please share the link below anywhere you can)

To recap, if you support the Dead Ink crowdfunder before the 31st Oct and pre-order The Wave for £12 you get:

— A beautifully produced signed hardback with artwork by Lola Dupre

—A Dead Ink tote bag

—Your name printed inside as a supporter

Or you can pre-order all three books for £30 and as well as the above you get:

—A Dead Ink T-shirt

—Dead Ink membership, giving you 15% off everything on the Dead Ink web store, forever and access to select Dead Ink writing courses.

Visit PUBLISHINGTHEUNDERGROUND.COM select ‘pre-order’ then ‘support now’ and choose an option.