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After a great event in March at the Albion Beatnik bookstore in Oxford - one of the coolest places to hang out in Oxford and a top indie bookshop - the Year Zero crew return to Oxford for a gig at the OCADA gallery on 14th April (6-8 pm).

Musicians have yet to be announced, but I'm hoping to see Jessie Grace and possibly the...
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A review of the free gig on February 4th in London's Brick Lane, featuring indie bands and Year Zero Writers Young Literary London

The next gig will be on the evening of Tuesday February 23rd at To Hell With Books, 10 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0JL

Meanwhile, as an appetiser, here's part of Penny Goring's reading

This is Daisy Anne Gree's incredible trailer for the Year Zero Writer's gig in London's Brick Lane (Feb 4th). New York gig to be announced.

The readers are Daisy and Dan Holloway.

Year Zero Writers have had a successful three months, with the publication of their first seven novels. They are:

29 Jobs & A Million Lies, by Jenn Topper
A, B & E, by Marc Nash
Babylon, by Daisy Anne Gree
Benny Platonov, by Oli Johns
Black Lace, by Marcella OConnor
Glimpses of a Floating World, by Larry Harrison
Songs from...
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Like music, film, and to some extent fine art, the book publishing industry has been dominated by the big corporations in recent years, who are risk averse and demand much bigger profit margins than the publishers of old. They are squeezing out original, edgy fiction in favour of bland, inoffensive pap. Authors have been slow to react, but they are beginning to follow the example...
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Posted the first 5 chapters of my book about heroin on a publisher's website, where it can be read for free. I'm hoping that this helps get it out into the world. An extract from the book is in a previous blog.

The book is called Glimpses of a Floating World and is at http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1848

"It is 1963, and there is growing concern about the...
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A publisher who maintains a blog which features work-in-progress was going to post this brief extract from the novel I'm working on. Then she changed her mind, on the grounds that it was "too disturbing for a general blog"?

I'm sure that it's not, but I'll post it here so people can see for themselves. The book's called Glimpses of a Floating World, and tells...
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Is it me, or is there a change in the kind of girls getting new sets onto SG? It's a long time since I felt I just had to download a pic, or even comment on a set. (I always comment, unless I feel indifferent or negative. I figure there are enough negative comments without adding mine.)

The new SGs seem a lot less risky,...
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I haven't changed a light bulb for over 5 years, because like most British people I've gone over to long-life flourescent ones. From the recent debate on this web site it's clear that, like many ecological measures, this is still far from the norm in the States, where many people still use power-hungry incandescent lights. It's really weird how far Americans are behind other developed...
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