Has anyone had any direct experience with the Friday Project? Our agent wasn't keen to submit to them. Yet I look on my bookshelf and I own and liked a number of their publications and hear they are good for spotting new talent/giving first timer writers a look in.

Would be interested to hear any views.

As I understand it they went out of business a year or so ago, when they burnt through their initial start up capital and couldn't raise additional funding - your agent should know that, if they're on the ball. Maybe that's why they were reluctant to submit to them, although I believe they didn't pay an advance, which would also have put agents off.


- NaomiM

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Actually, your blog-to-book sort of mss, would have been right up their street, as that was the sort of thing they were publishing.

They went into liquidation, and HarperCollins bought the imprint and some but not all of the titles that were in the works. So the imprint is still publishing, as far as I know. This is one of the Bookseller stories about it - the links on the right lead you to others:

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/72058-christian-out-at-the-friday-project.html

Emma

I think Emma's right that the imprint's still publishing - I work for the British Library & I know that we have received notification of new publications from them recently. I wouldn't be able to say for definite that they're brand new titles that have been acquired since they were taken into the HarperCollins fold though, and I have no idea what they're like to work with.
Hope this helps!