As a new author, you tend to be warned by published friends that your publication day will feel like a letdown. In the case of my anthology about infertility grief, No One Talks About This Stuff, which was published a year ago yesterday, I wasn’t prepared for just how much of a letdown it would become.
That’s because my cherished book was published by Unbound, the crowdfunding publisher founded in 2010 by John Mitchinson, Justin Pollard and Dan Kieran, which went into administration this week after months of unsettled payments. As one of its authors told me drily, “It has at times felt to me like their royalty statements are just another of the many works of fiction they have published.”
