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Out—out are the lights—out all!

Written by Chomu Press Admin on May 10, 2017 - 0 Comments
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Following on from the news of the Marked to Die anthology last year, we are very pleased to make another Mark Samuels-related announcement. Written in Darkness, the fifth collection of short fiction by Mark Samuels, and the twenty-eighth title from Chômu Press, is officially released today. Originally available as a limited edition hardback from Egaeus [...]

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Marked to Die

Written by Chomu Press Admin on November 10, 2016 - 0 Comments
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As the whistles and gunpowder smell of fireworks die away and we start to approach, with premature anticipation or dread, the festive season, and as the dark winter evenings that seem to call up atavistic memories of roaming wolf packs draw in, we break a long Chômu silence to bring you news of Mark Samuels, [...]

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How to Bake a Cockatrice, by Brendan Connell

Written by Chomu Press Admin on March 6, 2015 - 0 Comments
Categories: Essays

Today, we bring you the second in a series of guest essays by Chômu authors. This time, ‘How to Bake a Cockatrice, and Other Gastronomic Oddities’, an essay on Renaissance cuisine by Brendan Connell. If you enjoy the essay below, you might also like Lives of Notorious Cooks by the same author.
How to Bake a [...]

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Spring bulletin

Written by Chomu Press Admin on March 4, 2015 - 0 Comments
Categories: News

Meteorologically speaking, spring has begun, but astronomically speaking, we still have to wait until the 20th of this month. However, at Chômu, we’re not waiting until the 20th to bring you a little spring bulletin. Soon, we shall be posting on this website the second in our series of essays by Chômu authors, but, for [...]

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Hardback Crandolin and April issue of Schlock

Written by Chomu Press Admin on May 1, 2014 - 0 Comments
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Today marks the occasion of the release of the first Chômu hardback.
Crandolin, by Anna Tambour, shortlisted for the 2013 World Fantasy Award in the novel category, has been described by Paul Di Filippo thus:
Tambour deftly deploys a variety of tones and strategies in this book, which she manages to unite gracefully into an organic wholeness [...]

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First Chômu hardback, Schlock interview, prize draw results, and so on

Written by Chomu Press Admin on April 17, 2014 - 0 Comments
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Spring has arrived and Chômu Press has, for the month of April, entered into a temporary partnership with Schlock Magazine. An interview with Chômu is already up on their website, and may be read here. Please also look out, on the Schlock website, for new fiction from Luke Geddes and Justin Isis and for reviews [...]

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Dragon Fishing in New Mexico

Written by Chomu Press Admin on February 12, 2014 - 1 Comment
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2014 has begun, and after the come-down and hangover of the New Year, a tonic is necessary to fortify us for the year ahead – maybe even hair of the cynosure. And so we continue the astronomical theme with which we brought 2013 to a close, and start 2014 with the release of The Galaxy [...]

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Book launch, Jane prize draw results, Snuggly Books, and so on

Written by Chomu Press Admin on June 14, 2013 - 6 Comments
Categories: News

We now come to a hiatus in our schedule of releases, with our next publication being Michael Cisco’s enigmatic and he-just-keeps-getting-better, Member. In the meantime, we would like to update you with some general news and information.
Below you will find the results of the prize draw for P.F. Jeffery’s Jane, but before that let us [...]

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TV chefs with their posturing books might beat a few eggs but can’t beat notorious cooks

Written by Chomu Press Admin on December 5, 2012 - 1 Comment
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Now we bring our 2012 schedule to a close with the compendious tour of culinary history and legend, Lives of Notorious Cooks, by Brendan Connell. In Metrophilias, published in 2010, Connell set about laying before the reader thirty-six tales of sexual obsession in thirty-six cities around the world. In Lives of Notorious Cooks he pulls [...]

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Enter the human labyrinth

Written by Chomu Press Admin on October 17, 2012 - 2 Comments
Categories: News

October is upon us. It’s time to walk bleak city streets, with our coat collars turned up against the chill and gritty wind, to find the yellow-lit window of a barely inhabited cafe, somehow dazzling in the soft blue of the evening, to step inside, remove one’s gloves, order a coffee (or similar beverage) and [...]

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