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My quibble is…that I’m not keen on this kind of exclusivity – but it’s not up to me what happens with these books, I’m just letting you know about what I think is very likely to be A GOOD THING…

“I don’t make a habit of sharing updates from authors, but I am going to make an exception in this case. As you will see, between them, the writer-artists Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott, and designer Daniel Streat, have made something of rare beauty.

So rare and so beautiful, Wild Folk deserves the widest possible circulation. I feel sure there are still some of you out there who will want to pre-order a copy and get your name listed as a subscriber. The book is published on Midsummer’s Day (21 June) 2025. It might just be the most beautiful book we’ve ever published.  

But don’t take my word for it, here’s Jackie Morris:

‘It’s a curious thing when you begin to move towards the end of a book. You’ve worked away quietly for months. In this case, the venture has been shared with Tamsin Abbott, and we’ve bounced ideas back and forth. A collaboration. I sent her sound files as words threaded together. She sent me images. Then we handed them over to editors and the designer.

Unbound were very generous in allowing us to help choose a designer. This isn’t normal. Usually in publishing you get who you are given. Both Tamsin and I love the book The Cosmic Dance by Stephen Ellcock, both the book and the design of it.

Wild Folk will be the same format as this book, and we managed to secure the same designer, Daniel Streat.

It’s still an act of faith, when you’ve not worked with someone, to see how they will take the words, the images, and make them sing.

I wish now we had recorded the first meeting we had, when Dan had begun to work on the book. Better still, I wish I had recorded my reaction to opening the first pdf . . . but maybe best not. There were many expletives. All very positive. So exciting. So beautiful.

Dan not only read the words of the stories, and really looked at the images, but he had watched our film and listened to how the stories linked. He understood the light and the dark, and the presentation he sent us . . . well, I’d never seen anything like it before.

I don’t want to write more, I'm just too excited and want you to see what he has done!

There were two covers that really stood out. They were too hard to choose between, and greedily we requested that for subscribers, could we please have a dust jacket, unencumbered by our names and titles etc, to wrap around the book’s casing. And Unbound said yes!!!!!!!

So now, for subscribers only we have an exclusive dust jacket, the cloak: which will enclose the portal.

With much excitement,

Jackie and Tamsin'

Persuasive isn’t she? If you are tempted, you can pre-order using this link (we only need another 20 orders to hit 300% funded).

PRE-ORDER NOW

Thank you – you won’t regret it. We need more beauty in the world."

John Mitchinson

Co-founder & Publisher

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