My debut novel, Johnny Ruin, is about a man who takes a road trip through his own mind with Jon Bon Jovi. It's a sad, funny, literary exploration of heartbreak and mental health.
After receiving somewhere in the region of 16 rejections from traditional publishers, and still very much believing in the story we had to tell, my agent Cath Summerhayes and I decided we should try crowdfunding it with Unbound.
The book funded in just nine days - one of the fastest campaigns for a literary novel in Unbound history - and is scheduled for release in spring 2018. Here are a few things I learned about crowdfunding in the process.