Show threadazteclady has movedJun 6, 2025

#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

https://writerbeware.blog/2025/06/06/bankruptcies-of-unbound-and-albert-whitman-co-put-authors-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/

Bankruptcies of Unbound and Albert Whitman & Co Put Authors Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Writer Beware

A 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 has movedMay 17, 2025

Found through Alastair Horne: more on the crowdfunded, now bankrupt Unbound, and its principals, who are now operating under the name Boundless, while stiffing authors and readers out of more than 2.4 MILLIONS of pounds.

#UnboundPublishing #BoundlessPublishing #Fraud #Scams

https://www.printweek.com/content/news/pre-pack-publisher-unbound-leaves-24m-hole-in-creditors/

Pre-pack publisher Unbound leaves £2.4m hole in creditors - Printweek

Crowd-funded publisher Unbound, sold in a March pre-pack administration deal to a new company set up by its director and CEO, left an estimated total deficiency for unsecured creditors of £2.4m according to the latest report from its administrators.

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azteclady has movedMar 19, 2025

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors

#ReaderBeware #PSA Please note: the same people behind Unbound Publishing, who haven't paid authors or fulfilled publishing obligations towards readers who funded specific books, are now behind the "new" Boundless venture.

(Because bankruptcy laws in the U.K. let them do this with impunity and ad infinitum)

#UnboundPublishing #BoundlessPublishing #Scams #Scammers