Katy Brand at Unbound Live.
You can click here to find out more about the book, Brenda Monk is Funny, and how you can get involved in its publication.

For more videos of the event go to: www.youtube.com/unboundvideos

Comedian Katy Brand and the novel she is crowd-funding for publishing with Unbound, (Brenda Monk is Funny - a story about a woman who decides to try and be a comedian), have been featured in the Daily Mail this week. You can see an excerpt of the article below.

And you can click here to find out more about Brenda Monk is Funny, read an excerpt of the book, and also find out how to get involved with its publication of  (in return for anything from an e-book and signed first edition hardback with your name printed in the back of each copy of the book, to invites to the launch party and comedy advice from Katy herself).

The book where you’re the story: TV comedian Katy Brand offering fans the chance to be a character in her first novel… for £2,500

By Emily Allen

Comedian Katy Brand is offering her fans the chance to have a character named after them in her first novel - for £2,500.

Her startling offer, which includes advice on any comedy script or stand-up and an invitation to the book’s launch lunch, is featured on a pay-to-publish website offering writers a new way of connecting with their readers and funding their publishing dreams.

On Unbound authors pitch their book ideas directly to readers and they can stump up cash to contribute towards its publication if they like the idea - in return for rewards.

If the authors raise enough money, the book will be written and published. The author will get half of the proceeds and Unbound the other half.

The books will always be available in digital form but if enough money is raised then it will be published in a paperback or hardback.

Ms Brand, who has appeared in numerous films, TV, radio and live shows including Have I Got News For You and Peep Show, wrote on the website: ‘I have always wanted to write a novel about comedy, maybe even several novels, so here I am, just a girl, standing in front of an internet, asking it to pay.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150626/The-book-youre-story-TV-comedian-Katy-Brand-offering-fans-chance-character-novel—2-500.html#ixzz1wALmKHLs

The next Unbound Live event (you can read Intelligent Life’s review of our last one here) will be on Monday 4th June at the Hay Festival.
Tickets are only £6.25 and you can get them from here. Read on to find out more about the event…

UNBOUND LIVE!

The award winning crowd-funded publisher Unbound, launched at Hay last year, celebrates its first birthday with a live event unlike anything else at the festival. Join a panel of Unbound authors competing to win the approval of the crowd to raise funding for their book ideas, in a cross between an election hustings and a literary Dragons’ Den. Featuring super-smart comedian Katy Brand, controversial polymath Jonathan Meades, novelist and developmental psychologist Charles Fernyhough, cult perfomance poet George Chopping, the inimitable Glaswegian Sikh writer, cook and performer, Hardeep Singh Kohli and others.

www.unbound.co.uk