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Everett True launches crowd-funded book company

By | Published on Tuesday 20 October 2015

Rejected Unknown

Veteran music journalist Everett True is launching a new book company called Rejected Unknown with a view to publishing the kind of works he and other writers have found hard to pitch to conventional publishing firms.

The idea for the venture, says True, came about when Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series knocked back a proposal for a book about Daniel Johnston’s album ‘Hi, How Are You’. It made True wonder: “What other wonderful potential projects have been turned down flat? I know that brilliant writers, such as Jack Sargeant and Karren Ablaze, had proposals rejected too. Absurd, I hear you cry! Absurd! Will no one do anything about this travesty of taste!?”

Well, True himself is doing the something via a new business named after another of Johnston’s albums. Launching the project, he recently posted on social media “I am starting a book company for the rejects and the misfits of this world”, and such was the response, work on a first book – ‘101 Albums You Should Die Before You Hear’ – is already underway, with a plan to have it published within six weeks of the company’s creation.

“Rejected Unknown will release three to five such books every quarter, crowd-funded and immaculately designed, on a rolling system of self-finance”, says the official blurb about the new venture. “The company will specialise in publishing works that are too brilliant and/or off-the-wall for conventional publishers”.

More at rejectedunknown.org



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