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Dear Reader,

The book you are holding came about in a rather different way to most others. It was

funded directly by readers through a new website: Unbound. Unbound is the creation

of three writers. We started the company because we believed there had to be a better

deal for both writers and readers. On the Unbound website, authors share the ideas

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the book by pledging for it in advance, we produce a beautifully bound special

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sold, in shops and online.

This new way of publishing is actually a very old idea (Samuel Johnson funded his

dictionary this way). We’re just using the internet to build each writer a network of

patrons. At the back of this book, you’ll find the names of all the people who made it

happen.

Publishing in this way means readers are no longer just passive consumers of the

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Thank you for your support,

Dan, Justin and John

Founders, Unbound