March 2012
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Looking For A Motive (blog post by Charles...
Part of the reason for taking the crowd-funding route with A Box of Birds was the opportunity it promised for getting some conversations going around the themes of the book. One of the ways in which I think this novel is distinctive is in its portrayal of a philosophy of neuroscientific materialism. If you are steeped in a particular scientific view of how the brain works, how does that change...
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"Rewired Publishing Not Self-Publishing": Unbound...
Justin Pollard, co-founder of Unbound, has responded to Anthony Horowitz’s speech on the publishing industry (published in The Guardian a couple of weeks ago) a piece of his own in The Independent, explaining how Unbound’s crowd-funding model differs from self-publishing.
At an event hosted by The Book People the other week, the author Anthony Horowitz gave a rather witty speech...
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Hattori Hachi series reviewed on the YA Yeah Yeah...
The awesome YA Yeah Yeah blog has done a brilliant review of the first two books of the Hattori Hachi series by Jane Prowse. The third book in the trilogy is being crowd-funded to be published exclusively by Unbound in a volume that will contain all three books in the series. You can click here to find out how you can get involved to support it’s publication. And you can check out the review...
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DESIGN OUR FACEBOOK PAGE LOGO
Facebook is changing the way it presents pages with the new ‘timeline’ feature. If you’d like to see what this looks like have a squint at President Obama’s (it starts with his birth certificate).
You’ll see there’s a big picture at the top. It’s supposed to sum up what we’re all about. We thought about using pictures of ourselves but then we...
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The Elegant Art of Falling Apart Photography...
Announcing our exciting inaugural Photography Competition for Jessica Jones’ upcoming novel, The Elegant Art of Falling Apart, which is being crowd-funded for UK publication by Unbound. We are pleased to invite you to submit your photo on the theme of ‘Falling Apart’. How it works: 1. Post your photo to the Elegant Art of Falling Apart Facebook page before Friday 30th March....
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Adrian Teal's guest post on Georgian Gentlemen
Adrian Teal’s Gin Lane Gazette - an 18th century Heat-style magazine, is being crowd funded for publication by Unbound. This week he did a guest post for Mike Rendell’s Georgian Gentlemen blog, in which he discusses the book and gives photographic excerpts. You can check it out below, and head over to the Georgian Gentlemen blog for more.
The Gin Lane Gazette by Adrian Teal
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Charles Fernyhough featured in WIRED: "What Can...
This week in WIRED, Jonah Lehrer wrote a fascinating article on Unbound author Charles Fernyhough and his book, A Box of Birds, exploring the relationship between novels and neuroscience with a great in-depth interview.
In Proust Was A Neuroscientist, I argued that, even in this age of glittering science, we still have a deep need for the musings and mysteries of art:
We now know enough to...
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Unbound's John Mitchinson: "Anthony Horowitz is...
Unbound’s John Mitchinson is in the Guardian today, replying to author Anthony Horowitz’s article (also published in the Guardian) from last week about the need for publishers. Read on for an explanation of what Unbound is really about and how we differ from self-publishing.
I enjoyed Anthony Horowitz’s witty article...
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“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who...”
– Kate Mosse (via amandaonwriting) Kate Mosse’s new book is being crowd-funded for publishing by Unbound, and you can read an excerpt of it, watch a video of Kate talking about it and even pre-order it if you want here.
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Peter Jukes on CNN: "Next step for the Murdoch...
Peter Jukes’ book, Bad Press: Fall of the House of Murdoch, an “alternative Leveson report”, is being crowd-funded for publishing by Unbound.
You can read an excerpt from it here, as well as find out how to get involved in supporting the publication of the book- in return for which you’ll not only get your name printed in the back of every copy of the book, but also an...
February 2012
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Charles Fernyhough on Why He Writes Fiction
Charles Fernyhough, who is publishing his book A Box of Birds (a “neuroscientific philosophical love thriller” -as wondrously described by Vaughan Bell) by crowd-funding with Unbound, has written a beautiful blog post about why he writes fiction and considering the relationship between science and story. See below. You can read an excerpt from his book here and also find out how to...
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Ade Teal's historical piece in the Daily Mail
Unbound author Ade Teal’s short historical piece for the Daily Mail:
Ade Teal’s upcoming book, Gin Lane Gazette, is a brilliantly illustrated and hilarious 18th century version of a tabloid magazine and it is being crowd funded for publishing by Unbound.
You can read an excerpt from the book here and if you’re interested you can pledge money to support the publication of Gin...
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Get a Free Copy of the 26 Treasures Book!
We’re in the last days of the subscription period for 26 Treasures on www.unbound.co.uk/books/26-treasures. We’re nearly at our target but we still need people to sign up to get the book published. So here’s an offer to treasure….When you pledge to buy a copy of 26 Treasures on Unbound, we’ll give you a free copy of either 26 Letters (the original 26 book, part of the British Library project) or...
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"26 Treasures" on what it's like publishing their...
From the 26 Fruits blog by the founder/director of the “26” organisation - John Simmons:
Treasure It
There’s so much about 26 Treasures – the book that is different. I’ll be very proud of it when it appears. It still needs a few more people to sign up for it www.unbound.co.uk/books/26-treasures in the next week or so. But everyone’s now confident it will happen.
The book comes...
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