Author Klara Piechocki-Brown crowdfunds her debut LGBT+ novel using Unbound, an innovative publishing platform.
Unbound is both a funding platform and a publisher, helping authors to become published with the support of their readers. The readers help to get great ideas published, and in return receive an insight into the writing process as well as having their name printed as a patron in that and every subsequent edition of the book.
Klara works as an illustrator as well as an author, and so patrons of her book will have exclusive access to illustrations of her characters and settings from the book itself.
The Death of Poppy Kusch features LGBT characters as well as an ethically non-monogamous bisexual protagonist. Klara herself identifies as both genderqueer and bisexual, and is passionate about LGBT activism – especially the encouragement of accurate portrayals of bisexual and trandsgender characters in the media.
Klara said: “It was important for me to show that you can fall in love with more than one person and gender and be happy; I wanted to really normalise what mainstream society still thinks of as an alternative lifestyle.”
Synopsis:
Poppy Kusch, a time travelling immigrant from the 1920s escaping scandal, lives quietly in modern-day Oxford as a neonatal nurse with her family; three lovers who are also time travellers.
After watching her future self die childless, Poppy pays to take part in a controversial study to artificially raise her luck in order to conceive a baby. When her family die as a result she must evade the Corporation as they try to stop her rewriting history to save them.
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You will also be able to read the first chapter for free!
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