Introducing The Unseen Review (Goodbye End Matters)
A new name!
There are a few things I’m absolutely useless at: promoting my own work, coming up with little blurbs and bios, naming things.1 Whilst End Matters has served me well over the last ten months or so, I knew it wasn’t quite right. And so with a little (a lot of) help2 we now have a new name and new branding, which I feel better suits me and my whole endeavour here.
The “unseen” part if it all refers to the fact that I want to get books in front of you that you’re less likely to find elsewhere. It’s really important to me that you spend your precious reading time with great books, and that means I will keep scouring backlists and reading widely. I also like to champion genre fiction, particularly the speculative, and the “unseen” element alludes to this, too.
With the new name I’m also putting my book club and this Review under the same umbrella: that is now The Unseen Review Book Club (much better than the name we had before!) and remains the community hub.
If you’re new, the About page has also been updated with all the details of what’s going on over here this year. Now that I’ve shared this, I can publish the reading list for our first course of the year which has been sitting in my drafts—exciting!
So there we have it! If you see an email coming through from The Unseen Review, you can rest easy that it’s not some interloper in your inbox (unless, that is, you already binned this particular email). I really hope you like it.
Before I had a kid I thought naming my future child would be fun—reader, it was in fact not fun.
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