January 2012
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26 Treasures: In Conversation with Unbound...
26 (an association for writers, editors and language consultants) has posted a great interview with one of our founders, John Mitchinson in which he shares advice for aspiring writers keen to get published by Unbound…
John Mitchinson is the co-founder of Unbound, a revolutionary crowdfunding publishing concept. He is also the...
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Anonymous asked: What is the 'author's shed'?
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Anonymous asked: HI I think that this is a great idea to help authors who often get overlooked but have great books or ideas! i am an author who has been trying to break into the market for a few years now with nothing but refusal letters! I was woundering whether you are also considering children's books?
Anonymous asked: I have contributed towards a book but have done so as a gift. How do I arrange for the name of the gift receiver to be in the book rather than mine?
greatholmes asked: I'm guessing you don't really need staff as this project seems fairly self running but..let me work for you!
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We Can Be Heroes reviewed in the Express
BOOK REVIEW: WE CAN BE HEROES by Robert Spellman
“The underground London club scene of the early Eighties has been chronicled in a lavish new book of previously unseen photographs and first-person accounts put together by Graham Smith, then a young art student and very much on the inside.
Smith roamed the nightspots, boudoirs and bedsits with an SLR and stash of monochrome film,...
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One & Other on crowd-funded books, Unbound, and...
photo: Martin Burns on Flickr
Matt Keay has written a great article discussing crowd-funded publishing and Unbound for One & Other. In response to some of the questions he raised about what it all means for unknown authors, we’d like to note that we are working with writing community sites such as ABCtales and Jottify, and will soon have many more unknown authors up on Unbound.
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Ask Away!
Just installed the /ask feature, so feel free to fire away with all your questions about Unbound, our books, our authors, and publishing in general. We’ll do our best to answer them as quickly as possible.
Looking forward to hearing what you all have to say! x
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Jenny Pickup picked as One to Watch in 'Time Out...
This week’s issue of Time Out London contains a brilliant article about Unbound author Jenny Pickup whose first novel, Unbelievable, will be out in March!
Jenny is on twitter and abctales.com. Click here to watch her pitch video for Unbelievable, read an excerpt of it, and even pre-order it for access to her shed (a behind-the-scenes area where you get an exclusive view of how the book is...
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'Management Today' on Unbound and our author,...
A New Chapter for the Book
by Rhymer Rigby Sunday, 01 January 2012
The rise of the e-book has left many fearing for the future of the printed word. Yet, there is room for them both to peacefully co-exist, as long as publishers make the most of new platforms, without losing sight of their traditional strengths.
By way of research into the future of book publishing in the age of the Kindle, Kobo...
