Getting your novel published through blogging

[Update: another technique added :o)]

Here’s a (somewhat surprising) blogsavvy client, the writer Mat Larkin.

Mat’s currently completing his first novel ‘The Last Monk’ and if you’re into reality TV, this is probably not one for you. However, if you’re interested in reality TV gone wrong with a touch of graveyard, megalomania and some other strange strange stuff then you’ll certainly be into this:

“All Banger wanted was another quiet evening at home.

But when his best friend Completely Trevor returns home ten years after going out for fish and chips (the police listed him as either dead or very, very reluctant to pay for his battered flake and three steamed dim sims), Banger instead finds himself infiltrating the world’s most obscenely successful and highly suspicious reality TV show with a team of crack conspiracy theorists in plastic trousers and a celebrity who has chosen the worst possible moment to decide she doesn’t want to be world famous.

Which would all be simple enough, except that the terrible truth appears to rest deep in the mind of a peculiar man who believes the dust bunnies under his bed keep waking him up at night to beg him to save the human race and also offer him unbeatable deals on pizza and mobile phone ring tones.

From North Carlton to San Francisco, from the world’s richest megalomaniac to a small plastic frog, from reality to television, Banger falls ever deeper into the world of The Last Monk.” [The Last Monk - Mat Larkin]

Mat’s posting extracts, other work and commentary on what it takes to be sitting at home writing every day. Further assisted by a rolling wordcount (currently at 86,928) it’s going to be a good ride so pick up the RSS feed and follow the production of Australia’s last first great novel.

Oh, and did I mention he’s looking for a publisher too :o) If you’re interested, just get in touch.

Oh and you get to see the editorial process at work too!