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5 December 2013
29 November 2013
The RocKAteers EP has been postponed till MONDAY
RocknRollers... Many of you have tweeted us today expressing your excitement for our debut RocKAteers EP release. We had planned for this to drop on @Spotify today (noon) but due to late delivery of the tracks by BURT... we have to delay the release until MONDAY. Burt hasn't explained why this happened but Clipper has Informed me that he's been out partying all week... so blame BURT. To make up for it we'll be LIVE at our studio from 4pm on @TheRnRDiaries and @TheRockAteers answering any of your questions. #AskRocKAteers #EGG
27 November 2013
YA author teams with The Script for Spotify deal
The band in Jamie Scallion's YA novel, The Rock'n'Roll Diaries: Making It, will "release" a series of songs on Spotify this week, after the author teamed up with rock group The Script.
Scallion, a musician, has self-published the book through Mad Notes Media, a venture he set up with The Script musicians Mark Sheehan and Danny O'Donoghue, and said the idea for the music arose when they were all on tour together.
"I was on tour with The Script and I mentioned that I'd written a book about a rock'n'roll band. They read it and we said wouldn't it be great if we put some music to it," he told The Bookseller. "Spotify suggested giving the band [known as the The RockAteers] a biography as if they were a real group, so people will come to the music not realising there is a book attached."
Scallion first released the book digitally in August and let readers download it in sections, for free, from the websitewww.therocknrolldiaries.com. Readers can also engage with content via Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Meanwhile the Spotify songs will go live on Friday (29th November).
Scallion said the big engagement with social media was a deliberate ploy to try and attract teenage boys to the book. "I was shocked on the stats about how many boys are reading books," he said, adding: "If teenage boys aren't reading, where are our future novelists and lyricists going to come from? We get a lot of engagement from girls, and that's fantastic, but we also need to engage the boys."
Readers have the option of downloading The Rock'n'Roll Diaries: Making It and so far it has been downloaded 15,000 times
However, 80% of visitors opted for PDF, said Scallion, hinting that teenage boys may not be as switched on to e-readers as other groups of the population.
"Boys don't have credit cards and maybe they don't have e-readers," he said.
Scallion is now turning The Rock'n'Roll Diaries into a series of four or five books.
Source: BookSeller.Com / Edited: DannyO'Donoghue.Net
14 October 2013
Pre Order - The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries Paperback
Want to get your hands on a paperback copy of The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries 1st..? Pre-order HERE:
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Jamie Scallion - from Rocker to Writer.
I've been in bands for a very long time. My dad was in a band, my brother was in a band. You could say it is in my blood. I love writing songs. Coming up with a strong concept and working on telling that story in three or four minutes is a consuming passion.
It felt like a natural progression to write a book. It has very different disciplines of course, a marathon not a sprint. Muscles I didn't know I had were needed in the pursuit of writing my novels. I wrote four novels before I felt like I was getting somewhere.
I started touring with 'The Script' in early 2008. We were both supporting a bigger band at the time on a four week UK tour. We got on like a house on fire and our friendship was built on four cornerstones: laughter, creation, inclusion and innovation. Laughter because they made me laugh, creation, because each of their songs is a vignette, songs like 'The Man Who Can't be Moved' or 'If You Could See Me Now' have a storytelling flair that really appeals to me. Inclusion because I was drawn to the way they treated their fans; with respect and affection. 'The Script' isn't an exclusive members' club, it's a party anyone can join. Innovation because I had never seen a band so focussed on thinking outside the box and striving to create an experience that pushes boundaries.
After that first tour the lads started to get pretty big, pretty fast. They began to invite my band on the road with them more and more and the friendship built. When I mentioned I had written a novel that drew from my experiences in a band Mark and Danny asked to read it. I sent them a PDF and they read it in a matter of days.
"What if we brought the band to life with music!" they said.
This was a crossroads moment. I saw it very much as a choice between traditional publishing and some kind of enhanced self-publishing. By applying the same ethos 'The Script' lived by I felt sure the books would have a good chance. Decision made, we started to work up a model that concentrated on using talented friends to help build the book and design the world it would live in. The tour bus became our office. Our shop front would be the World Wide Web. We wanted to harness the power of social media to create the buzz. Despite Mark and Danny being behind it we didn't want to over use 'The Script's' clout to gain superficial followers. We wanted to engage people, to get people reading sample chapters, listening to excerpts of the songs we had written. We were meticulous in our plans. Our mantras were "don't run before we can walk" and "if we don't know something, let's ask someone who does".
On the music side we were savvy of course. On the literary side, not so much. We took meetings with literary professionals, many of whom were positive but constricted by traditional practices. Some didn't understand what we were trying to do at all. One even suggested we re-write the story and base it on three Irish lads from Dublin. But Amazon got it! They were enthusiastic from the moment we explained our idea, saw its scope and had exactly the place for us to house the book. KDP Select was the only outlet where we could maximise the potential and could help us to spread the word in the most effective way. We retained our independence and ability to act quickly whilst at the same time having the added benefits such as the Kindle Owners' Lending Library allowing us to extend our reach even further and build on our positive word of mouth.
I love being in control of my own destiny and I love the direct contact with our small but very engaged fan base. It's already been the most empowering and exciting thing I've ever done in my life. Whatever happens next, we are immensely proud of what we have achieved so far.
-- Jamie Scallion
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10 October 2013
8 October 2013
The Rock n Roll Diaries: Making it [Paperback]
RELEASE DATE 1st NOVEMBER 2013
£6.99
£6.99
Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: Mad Notes Media (1 Nov 2013)
ISBN-10: 0992685508
ISBN-13: 978-0992685508
Source : Amazon.co.uk / Edited: Danny O'Donoghue
2 October 2013
Friends Again?
Nice to see you have made up again after the Type off
(Glen won BTW!)
(Glen won BTW!)
Proof that TheRnRDiaries gives you #POWER
Source: Rock n Roll Diaries / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net
19 September 2013
Plug into The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries
Need some help Mark?
Audio Book not paperback
Source: RNRDiaries / Audiblecouk / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net
18 September 2013
13 September 2013
Audiobook 'Making Of'. Episode 1- Scallion Vs. Sheehan.
9 September 2013
ROCKER BOYZ - The Rock 'N' Roll Diaries
Jamie Scallion’s 15 years as a touring rock star and his friends in high places makes his new book ‘The Rock ‘N’ Roll Diaries’ a must read
TELL US ABOUT THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DIARIES.
There are four books and it’s about the journey of a fictional bank called The Rockateers, from when they start as teenagers’ to when they become big, to when they start to have problems and…. I won’t tell you the ending
IS IT TRUE THAT YOU WROTE IT AS A SERIES OF BLOG ENTRIES.
It’s all told in blog format so that we can hear what the band members all think of each other.
THE BAND ORIGINALLY GETS TOGETHER TO GET THE ATTENTION OF BEX – THE HOTTEST GIRL IN SCHOOL. IS SHE BASED ON A REAL GIRL?
Yes – she’s based on a girl from school I was completely enamoured with. Interestingly a lot of boys who’ve read the book have come to me and said they know that girl – Which is really funny!
THE BOOK IS HILARIOUS. BUT THERE IS A SERIOUS SIDE TOO.
Yes there are certainly a couple of very poignant moments with Bex and the lead guitarist who is very much in love with her. He’s not one of the cool kids, but through this great girl he gains confidence and comes out of his shell
THE SCRIPT ARE REALLY INVOLVED WITH THE BOOK TOO. TELL US ABOUT THAT.
The idea to release free preview chapters two at a time on our website actually came from them. My band toured with them a few times and we became very good friends. They read the book and they came up with the idea to bring the book alive through music and record The Rockateers demos which you can listen to at www.therocknrolldiaries.com
WERE THEY INVOLVED WITH THE MUSIC?
We recorded everything in The Script’s studio. They’d come in and listen to the songs and gave us their feedback. They are such good songwriters and being around them was just so inspiring.
The Rock ‘N’ Roll Diaries is available now on Amazon £3.99 (€4.63)
Source: Kiss Magazine / Via MaybeAli_ / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net
15 August 2013
The Script Newsletter - Download The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries now
Hi DannyODonoghue.Net
We wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting our new project The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries.
Your pre-orders have helped us reach #1 on the Amazon Hot New Release chart and the support from fans on @TheRnRDiaries Twitter and Facebook has been incredible.
Today If you pre-ordered The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries you'll receive it on your device. If you've not ordered the ebook yet you can still head over to Amazon and download it now.
Have a great weekend and we look forward to rocking with you at V.
Big Love,
Mark and Danny.
Source: The Script Newsletter / DannyODonoghue.Net
14 August 2013
Rock 'n' Roll Diaries - Trailer
New trailer for The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries. Voice over courtesy of Capital FM's Dave Berry.
Source: The RNR Diaries
The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries - RnR Moments
The first cut of #TheRockAteers music video. It's a 30 second taster. Keep on sending in your Rock 'n' Roll moments. Due to rockular demand we're holding the final edit until The Script have finished Leeds and Blackpool.
Source: Rock n Roll Diaries @TheRnRDiaries
GLEN POWER Vs. JAMIE SCALLION in TYPE OFF-THE MOVIE
"Only the fastest fingers will survive"
SCALLION vs. GLEN POWER. Lord of Books vs. King of Drums, In a type off. #RNRD3days2go Pre-order NOW:
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8 August 2013
Debut Audiobook from London Rock Musician The Rock ‘n’ Roll Diaries
Once again today DannyODonoghue.Net has been personally emailed and asked let you all know about something and I am incredibly proud to be asked to do this by two major publications.
I proudly present the audiobook for 'Making it'
Dear Debbra,
Audible.co.uk has exclusively produced MAKING IT, the first book in Jamie Scallion’s brilliantly funny The Rock ‘n’ Roll Diaries series. We would love if you would share this with your site visitors and if possible direct them to see the fabulous site of this internet sensation.
Jamie used to be in a rock band, supporting The Script on tour. The guys became great friends and now Jamie has written the first in a series of novels, charting the meteoric rise of a group of teenage boys as they seek fame, fortune and rock-stardom. The Script boys are really behind the book, helping to produce viral videos that are spreading across the web, and an accompanying album that Jamie and The Script are producing together.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Diaries is the story of four teens who join together to form a misfit band, the RockAteers.
Burt, the egotistical leader, wants to win the love of Bex, the most popular girl in school. Egg has spent his entire life on the outside looking in, Tea needs to avoid following the criminal life of his family, and Clipper wants more out of life that a fast track to a football academy.
When Egg reveals his song-writing genius, the only way is up for the four misfits. But can they break into the music industry? Will fame and fortune give them what they want?
The audio download of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Diaries is available only from Audible.co.uk, the UK’s leading provider of downloadable audiobooks.
Regards
Chloe
Audible.co.uk (a subsidiary of Amazon.com)
Source: Personal Email request Audible.co.uk / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net
6 August 2013
The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries - Rock 'n' Roll Moments Competition Prize
The prize of the guitar Danny smashes in the video has now been signed and a picture of it has been made available
There is still time to enter here
1 August 2013
The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries - Rock 'n' Roll Moments
Huge news
We're making the first RockAteers music video and we want you to be involved...
HOW TO ENTER:
1: RECORD A SHORT VIDEO OF YOUR MOST ROCK'N'ROLL MOMENT USING INSTAGRAM
2: ADD THE OFFICIAL HASHTAG #THERNRDIARIES TO YOUR POST
3: LOAD AND SHARE IT ON YOUR INSTAGRAM PROFILE
The best clip gets the guitar Danny smashed in the video signed by Kodaline, The Script, Original Rde Boys and Jamie Scalion. Five runners-up will win a signed hard copy of the book, one of the first two hundred editions.
Terms & Conditions
ROCK N ROLL DIAIRES AND ANY OF IT'S AFFILIATES OR PARTNERS, ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR HARM TO ANY PERSONS OR 3RD PARTIES INVOLVED IN THEM MAKING OF THIS VIDEO
USERS TAKE FULL RESPONSIBLITY FOR THE VIDEO AND IT'S CONTENTS
BY SUBMITTING YOUR VIDEO YOU CONFIRM THAT ROCK N ROLL DIARIES CAN USE THIS VIDEO FOR ANY COMMERICAL AND/OR PROMOTIONAL USAGE, YOU ALSO CONFIRM YOU HAVE THE FULL RIGHTS OF THIS VIDEO TO SUBMIT TO ROCK N ROLL DIARIES
USERS MUST BE OVER 14
EXPIRY DATE AUGUST 30TH
WINNER WILL BE CONTACTED AFTER AUGUST 30TH VIA INSTAGRAM OR TWITTER
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