A Pledge for Lily Poole

 

I'm an avid fan of Jack O'Donnell's writing and this is my small supportive pledge for the big man himself. As you know, Unbound is a brand new publishing concept – a crowdfunded publishing platform. At Unbound, authors pitch their ideas and the public choose which books get written. You can fund your favourite authors directly by pledging cash to their novel. Ewan is deliciously close to completion and needs your support to gasp over the last ten per cent. Lavadis has smashed it. Jack's going to nail it but you need to put your money where your mouth is. That’s what I’m doing.

'There’s this man you see, his name’s Jack O’ Donnell, and he’s the kind of writer I aspire to. Jack writes uniquely, he writes beautifully and he never disappoints. That’s the kind of novelist I search for in Waterstones. Few and far between, aren’t they? I expect you rip books off the shelves too, claw open the middle pages to check for that kind of prose quality to fill you up, that gives you a decent internal shift with a seamless plot, some deep-level emotional identification, just that gleam of something really special. Jack’s work gives it you in spades and shovels.

For that reason, I’m supporting Jack to get his novel published with Unbound. I’ve pledged and now I’m asking you to pledge. Give as much or as little poundage as you like and let’s see Jack’s novel, Lily Poole come to fruition. Do it today.

Inform your parents dramatically that ‘We need to speak about Jack’, tell the random him and her arguing over there about his ghost story, tell your deaf neighbour that she’d love his writing, give a flier to the shirty postman, pop into your local library; mince right up to the desk and look that literary clerk deep in the eye whilst you tell them all about Jack, whisper the web page details to that bloke at the bus depot with a defective falcon’s foot, speak to your colleagues at work, don’t forget the bank manager from Clydebank with a venomous grudge about travel and UK transport, remember the guy that buys knock-down coleslaw in Waitrose late on a Tuesday night? He’d be better off using that cash to pledge. When you next buy your toiletries, fire Jack’s Unbound details all over the would-be hot-if-only-she-didn’t-smile bird on Boots Cash & Wrap.

You get something back. You can get your name written in the book as thanks, you receive a copy and best of all, you help to get pure talent published. Writing’s a notoriously hard industry, it’s changing all the time, change with it. Pledge for Jack.

Thank you. http://unbound.co.uk/books/lily-poole '

 

PS Not bad at rhetoric, could be a side line. Ok, perhaps not. Shaddup.