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#unbound

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azteclady

#PSA: authors and writers, If you don't follow the Writer Beware blog, you may want to start now: Victoria Strauss is a great source to learn about the scum looking to defraud you--from bogus 'marketing' packages that cost you money and do nothing for you, to outright fraudulent publishers--like Unbound has proven to be.

#Unbound #UnboundPublishing #Boundless #Scams #PhoenixScam

writerbeware.blog/2025/06/06/b

Writer Beware · Bankruptcies of Unbound and Albert Whitman & Co Put Authors Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Writer BewareA Hellacious Mess: Unbound Established in 2011, UK-based crowdfunded publisher Unbound styled itself the Kickstarter for books and was widely heralded as the next big idea in publishing. Heady words like “disruption” and “paradigm” were tossed around, and the company’s launch garnered substantial positive media coverage. (This blog post from Nail Your Novel provides anRead More
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azteclady

Tom Cox: "I was invited onto BBC Radio 4's You And Yours today to talk about Unbound, who owe me and their other authors around £650,000 in total, which is not even taking into account the readers they have refused to refund."

Link (segment starts 19 minutes in):
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d117

BBCYou and Yours - Fried Chicken, Contested Wills and Unbound Authors - BBC SoundsHow fried chicken is going upmarket.
#Unbound#Boundless#Scams
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CautionWIP- don’t follow me - (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎

For those authors involved in the Unbounded/Boundless garbage, Alex de Campi is working right now with a UK lawyer investigating options, and is looking for correspondence between affected writers and the publisher regarding it. Details below and please do share.

bsky.app/profile/alexdecampi.b

Bluesky Social · Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi.bsky.social)UNBOUND AUTHORS: I’m speaking to a solicitor about our fine mess. If you have ANY correspondence with the company (beyond the “Dear Author” letters we all got) in 2024 about nonpayment or about the company’s financial stability, could I see it? I’m opening my DMs for this (don’t make me regret that)
#WritingCommunity#Unbound#Writers
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Schroedinger

The problem with the unethical behaviour of #Boundless #Unbound is that nobody else will ever publish their books through them. Nobody like me will buy their existing books.

I have recently had notice of the last book I bought through them (several years ago!), although I have not actually received it yet, and I will not buy any more.

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Marquis de Geek

Some more #Unbound threads:

All to familiar story:
bsky.app/profile/laurakbuzz.bs

Book good / publisher bad:
bsky.app/profile/vathenauk.bsk

Tech tech guy:
bsky.app/profile/baldurbjarnas

Ex-employee:
bsky.app/profile/bethlewis.bsk

Detachment:
bsky.app/profile/gralefrit.bsk

40K lost:
bsky.app/profile/dan.nerdcubed

Bluesky Social · Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz (@laurakbuzz.bsky.social)So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.
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