"We take books to the virtual level!"
Year Zero Writers: first three novels published this September
We're a group of 20 authors from as far afield as Hong Kong, the USA, England, France, Dubai, Greece, and Finland, who have joined forces to bring their unique brand of contemporary fiction direct to readers. We started the group as a response to a recession-hit publishing industry, dominated by market trends that are beginning to squeeze out original, edgy fiction.
Our first titles will be Benny Platonov by Hong Kong resident Oliver Johns, which tells of an exile from the former East Germany who believes he can save Hong Kong’s homeless with his stories; Glimpses of a Floating World by Larry Harrison, an elegy to the lost underbelly of Sixties London; and Songs From the Other Side of the Wall by Dan Holloway, the heartbreaking story of a teenage girl growing up in post-communist Hungary who dreams of following her mother to “The West”.
Year Zero Writers has a simple manifesto, based around the principle that literature is a living conversation between readers and writers, in which a publishing industry that demands editorial changes and toning down of content has no place. The group’s first project, started in March 2009, was a novel, The Man Who Painted Agnieszka’s Shoes, written in real time as a dialogue with readers, and given away for free on the social networking site, Facebook.
Thirteen of the Year Zero Writers have provided samples of their work for the collection Brief Objects of Beauty and Despair, which the collective is giving away as a free pdf (available from http://yearzerowriters.wordpress.com/) to showcase its work. This is only one of a set of marketing strategies that embrace new media such as the microblogging site Twitter, where the group’s writers already have a devoted following of over 1000.
Our first titles will be Benny Platonov by Hong Kong resident Oliver Johns, which tells of an exile from the former East Germany who believes he can save Hong Kong’s homeless with his stories; Glimpses of a Floating World by Larry Harrison, an elegy to the lost underbelly of Sixties London; and Songs From the Other Side of the Wall by Dan Holloway, the heartbreaking story of a teenage girl growing up in post-communist Hungary who dreams of following her mother to “The West”.
Year Zero Writers has a simple manifesto, based around the principle that literature is a living conversation between readers and writers, in which a publishing industry that demands editorial changes and toning down of content has no place. The group’s first project, started in March 2009, was a novel, The Man Who Painted Agnieszka’s Shoes, written in real time as a dialogue with readers, and given away for free on the social networking site, Facebook.
Thirteen of the Year Zero Writers have provided samples of their work for the collection Brief Objects of Beauty and Despair, which the collective is giving away as a free pdf (available from http://yearzerowriters.wordpress.com/) to showcase its work. This is only one of a set of marketing strategies that embrace new media such as the microblogging site Twitter, where the group’s writers already have a devoted following of over 1000.
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