Crowded House: Why I Crowd Funded My Book
20/05/2015
Award-winning writer Alice Jolly explains why she took the crowd-funding route to publish her forthcoming memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns.
But I did it; I raised £10,000 for the publication of my book. Was it worth it? Would I recommend the experience to other writers? With publication over a month away at the time of writing, the jury is still out. Overall, however, my experience with the crowd-funding publisher Unbound (“a new way to connect authors and readers”) has been positive. Not just positive, actually, but also fun, frightening and exciting.
How many people can say that about publishing? Let’s admit it: writers and publishers do tend to exist in an Eeyore-like state of gloom; everything is bad and it is always getting worse. Unbound was set up by three writers who were fed up with all the moaning.
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