Unbound / Boundless: RI without much in the way of P

There's a load of people who'll be hurt by this: writers and other creative peeps, those staff who are both blameless and now jobless, and those hundreds of well-meaning supportive readers who pledged money in good faith to fund book projects that'll now never be realised. This includes we who chipped in to get One In Five off the ground (I pledged for a couple of copies myself, not least as it was unclear if I'd get a contributor copy, though one turned up a couple of months ago).  

This means that somewhere there's a pallet or two of ready-to-post paperbacks of One In Five. It may be these'll be sent out as part of the winding-up process, though that sounds doubtful to me. They might end up being pulped, going to landfill, or being sold off to a discount book retailer to try to claw some money back as part of the liquidation. 

So it goes. 

There'll be a lot of fallout about the whole Unbound/Boundless from people who a) know much more than I do and/or b) got burned way more than I ever did. Some of this will be niche industry gossip and tattle, I'm sure, but a lot of it won't be. People's passions, their livelihoods, their expertise, their generosity, their willingness to pony up on the promise of a book.

I'll try to do a round-up post after some the dust settles that groups together more of this. I'll also ferret out a copy of the bit I wrote for One In Five, as the rights for the piece will have now reverted back to me. 

Still, I got published and I've got some stories. And I've met some fine folk along the way, not least in Nottingham in 2018, when a couple of dozen or so of us peer Unbounders (as we saw ourselves) got together for a day and a couple of fine meals out of crowdfunding and book-related malarkey.