{"id":7319,"date":"2023-05-03T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:46:50","slug":"farewell-to-unsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=7319","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Unsung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven years ago, I was sorting through a bag of donated men&#8217;s underwear (used) at my charity job when my phone pinged. An email from George at Unsung Stories: they loved <em>Pseudotooth<\/em> and they wanted to publish. After two years of fruitless querying, my weird book had finally found a home. I bought the cheapest bottle of supermarket champagne available and ordered a Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2602-855x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2602-855x1024.jpeg 855w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2602-250x300.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2602-768x920.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2602.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Today came <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unsungstories.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/26\/4\/the-end-or-how-to-stick-the-landing-indie-press-style\" target=\"_blank\">the sad news<\/a> that Unsung Stories is closing down. It didn&#8217;t come as a shock, but it&#8217;s a huge blow nonetheless. The loss of Unsung is going to leave a big hole in British speculative fiction. It&#8217;s the little guys who take the creative risks, putting their strength behind books the bigger publishers won&#8217;t touch. We&#8217;re all poorer when an indie goes under. Most of all, it sucks to see my friends having a hard time.<br><br>Without Unsung Stories, I wouldn&#8217;t be where I am today. Which isn&#8217;t to say I&#8217;m writing this on a veranda in Tuscany, but I&#8217;m pretty damn content. I&#8217;ve got a new novel out in July, a comic too, and I&#8217;m sitting on a nice little mountain of published short stories. I&#8217;ve met so many new friends through Unsung and had so many opportunities I would never otherwise have had. Without Unsung, I would never have found myself on the main stage at MCM Comic Con telling that one anecdote about my uncle in France and the spider sex cheese. (Don&#8217;t ask.) Unsung produced <em>Pseudotooth<\/em> so beautifully, fully understanding what I wanted to say with it and why. I&#8217;m incredibly grateful.<br><br><em>Pseudotooth<\/em> is mine again &#8211; all rights have returned to me &#8211; and I need to decide on its future. I could self-publish or search for a publisher who deals with reprints. At the moment, I don&#8217;t know. I just don&#8217;t want it to vanish. As it stands, the last copies of the novel are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unsungstories.co.uk\/store\/pseudotooth-paperback-pre-order\" target=\"_blank\">for sale in the Unsung shop for \u00a32.99<\/a>, which is a <em>lot<\/em> of paperback for your buck. When they&#8217;re gone, they&#8217;re gone.<br><br>Treasure your small publishers, folks. Buy something weird today.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years ago, I was sorting through a bag of donated men&#8217;s underwear (used) at my charity job when my phone pinged. An email from George at Unsung Stories: they loved Pseudotooth and they wanted to publish. 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