Elastic Press to close
Filed under General • 30-12-2008 •
In his latest update, Andrew Hook explains the reasons why Elastic Press won’t be releasing any books in 2009:
I’ve increasingly found Elastic is becoming a burden rather than a pleasure. I’ve run it mostly in my spare time over the past six years (and occasionally part-time and full-time), and I’ve decided that I now want to focus on my own writing and spend more time with my family. Not only that, but I feel I’ve taken Elastic as far as it can go. We’ve had some great successes – in terms of reviews, awards, and sales – with, perhaps ironically, 2008 being the best year to date; however I feel I’ve hit a wall in my ability to expand the press further and my enthusiasm is starting to wane. Rather than wait until such time that I start to do a disservice to the authors, it seems better to quit whilst I’m ahead.
I’m personally sad about this for two reasons: 1) Elastic published my short story collection The Last Reef & Other Stories, and I was hoping they’d also publish the sequel, and 2) this drastically cuts down the available markets for short story writers, as so few of the larger publishers are interested in producing short story collections.
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Agree very sad. Elastic Press books were very high quality and great stories at a good price (especially great was “The Last Reef & other stories”). Recommend everyone go and get some Elastic press books while they are still available. I would be interested to know any details on the sequel to the last reef.