Unbound is a crowdfunding publisher whose community of 294,935 people from 206 countries have pledged £10,589,208 to fund 601 projects — and counting — from bestsellers to award-winners.

They currently have 154 live projects live on their website. Their model shifts the balance of power into the hands of the people and communities to champion the voices that deserve to be heard and gives great ideas a way of making their mark on the world. You can find a project that you love, and actually help make it happen. 

Whether it's fiction, or non-fiction, poetry and short stories or coffee table tomes, there's something for all of us. And it's not just unheard of names. Their authors include the children’s writer Raymond Briggs, Monty Python’s Terry Jones, novelist Alice Jolly, the YouTuber Stuart Ashen, activist Penny Pepper, writer and film-maker Jonathan Meades and the performance poet Salena Godden.

Accordion Books is working with the incredible Jackie Morris to fund the first pair in a series of illustrated folding gift books featuring foxes and otters. It's 60% funded by 224 supporters and you can jump on board and support it via the link above.

Whatever your passion, whatever your interest, there might well be something for you.

Warplanes, check.

Cookery, check.

Humour, check.

Fabulous crime fiction, check.

And it's certainly hitting the mark.

Unbound has reported its trade sales grew year on year in both the UK and US by 31% and 51% respectively during 1st January to 31st July 2021.

The independent publisher, which crowdfunds for all its titles, ​recorded its highest ever revenue month of £600,000 in May this year with 80% of revenue coming from crowdfunding alone. Unbound said its crowdfunding success rate was also at a record 73% across the year.

The press celebrates its 10th birthday this year, and has established a trade presence in the US through Consortium Books Sales & Distribution. This week, the publisher earned a Sunday Times bestseller spot and hit number one in the Small Publishers non-fiction chart with Glittering A Turd by Kris Hallenga.

Interested? Take a look and their latest catalogue...you might be joining the crowdfunding revolution.