#UNBOUND

[effinbirds]

Statement on Unbound

June 6th, 2025

Unbound, my former UK publisher, owe me a lot of money.

What’s worse, though, is that during their collapse, it came to light that they were underreporting my sales and shorting my royalty payments.

So, I haven’t been paid for the last 18 months of book sales, and when they were paying me, they were underpaying by a lot. It was gutting to hear that my second book had flopped in the US, selling under 1000 copies. Two years later I found out that it actually sold over 10,000 copies and the reason that it was selling no new copies week to week was because there were no copies left to sell.

John Mitchison, Unbound’s publisher, posted a heartfelt apology yesterday, announcing that he was stepping away from the business because authors are not getting their money. I feel a lot of empathy for John, because he, too, lost his dream to Unbound’s financial mismanagement. But the act of destroying a creative person’s confidence to hide the company’s monetary losses is unforgivable.

It took me two years to get over the feeling of rejection that came from a book that, it turned out, was successful and should have had a second printing.

That fucking sucks.

p.s. go ahead and buy my books at your local bookstore. It's impossible to know which copies I got paid properly for and which ones I didn't, so don't penalize your local shop. And if you're feeling extra generous, come see me at an in-person event or grab something fun from my Threadless store.

[cloudedmoonofficial]

Nightpool and Catcher with kittens! (Sky, Spot, Berry, and Hunter)

[herofestival]

[dailyspicyfigures]

Getsuryuu (Moondragon) ; Original Character ☆ UnBound

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

V.R. Krishna Iyer - Woman Unbound: A Plea for Gender Justice - Society for Community Organisation Trust - 1984

[orpheeeeus]

not me looking at my ceiling because i'm writing a character looking up at the sky

[screechfoxes]

I don't know if any of you have seen things about the Unbound/Boundless terribleness--

(tl;dr of the big bit: after the crowdfunding publisher Unbound collapsed and became Boundless, authors are not being paid. which feels like an understatement.)

--but this video by a YouTuber I've watched for a long time has a good summary of the issues he's faced, including not being paid £40k he's owed. he's also been reposting other affected authors' threads about it on Bluesky

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Unbound and the HG101 Japanese Video Game Obscurities book

Recently there’s been quite a bit of drama in the book publishing world. Sometime in the past couple of years, UK-based publisher Unbound stopped paying royalties to its authors, and as of late 2024, went bankrupt. All of the rights to its titles were transferred to a new company, Boundless, who pledged to pay owed back royalties to its authors, and even set up payment schedules. However, as of an email sent on May 29, 2025 by the new CEO, they were unable to pay these owed royalties to anyone, and started referring to these as “goodwill payments”. There’s some legalese to this words, but the general understanding among authors is that they probably wouldn’t be seeing any of their owned money anytime soon, if ever. Some of the industry news can be found quoted in this Reddit post.

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[nicoooooooon]

Outtake with Chelsea Wolfe photographed by Nedda Afsari for the ‘Unbound’ EP (2024)

[roxynani9292]

Sylus outfit orbit 6️⃣0️⃣

[evil-wawe-form]

The Liminal (Unbound) by CHELSEA WOLFE

[cloudedmoonofficial]

-Art by Tennelle

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Alduin: My therapist told me to write letters to all the people I hate and then burn them. So I did that.

Alduin: But now I don't know what to do with the letters.

[killiancormac]

UNBOUND is a sci-fi / action story set in an alternate New York City, where corporations, small and massive alike, rule the nation. Much of the state outside of the city is home to abandoned warehouses, and many make their living scavenging whatever scraps they can find and selling them off to rival companies. 

Ethan Jackson, 26, a scavenger since he was a teen, is content with his life. He’s never known his parents, but is close with his surrogate father, Henry. He lives with his lifelong best friend Vaughn, and together with their mutual friend Diana, he makes ends meet by delving into the newest hastily abandoned facility in the remote edges of New York. 

When an acquaintance drags him along with them to a freshly deserted warehouse belonging to none other than Alistair Sinclair, tech mogul and scientist, Ethan learns much more about the world – and himself – than he bargained for.

fuck it do it scared etc etc. ive had this floating around in my head for eight years now NO it does not have a clear ending NO i have not written any of it down NO i do not know where it is going nor do i have a clear idea of how to get from point a to b.

this has very much been a very self indulgent little story that i made up when i was 16 that has just completely snowballed over the last few years <3 maybe one day ill do something real and true with it but before then i need to be properly medicated. love and light.

THE CHARACTERS:

ETHAN

My scrungly. slaps his bald (shaved) head

DIANA

from diana: greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. she and ethan influence each other

VAUGHN

i do love a gay doctor it has to be said. the only reasonable character in this series

E-25

ethan's twin brother he didnt know about and also somewhat superhuman weapon of war / assassin. my other scrungly x10000000000000

SINCLAIR

[orpheeeeus]

Unbound: Chapter 6 coming soon

Chapter title: The Red Guard and the Mad King pov: Arthur Publishing date: May 11 (or May 12, depending on your time zone) Main tags: Emrys revealed & Good!Mordred

Fic summary:

"The wind whispers to those who listen, as do the rain and the worms. They whisper of a foolish king and a merciless deity. They whisper about the slow decay of the world and the rebirth of all things.

They whisper that, during the Great Purge, Uther trapped a being no mortal was ever meant to trap. He bound it in the deepest cave of his kingdom and atop the highest peak of his land.

And the rain whispers: fear not, for only mortals remain bound forever. The seasons will come and go, the world will freeze and the snow will melt. And one day, Emrys will be free once more. Magic will walk the Earth anew.

◊◊ ◊◊ ◊◊

Arthur is in love. Merlin is tired. And Mordred will free Emrys, no matter the cost."

you can find the fic here <3

[chelseawolfeonly]

Chelsea Wolfe - Place in the Sun (Unbound)