Farewell from and to Chômu Press

Chomu Press Admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:46:36 +0000

It has been some time since there has been Chômu Press news. Now, sadly, the news is that, after much exploring of avenues and much agonising, we have finally made the difficult decision to bring Chômu Press to an end. This is necessarily a brief statement, in order to give our readers as much time as possible to buy the books before they go out of distribution. However, we would like to say thank you to everyone who has worked with, taken an interest in and supported us over the years, especially the readers—those far from ordinary people who have been adventurous enough to take their imaginations into the under-explored territories where the Chômu authors have beaten their highly singular paths.

In just over ten years, we have released 28 extraordinary books, with which we are proud to be associated. We have been especially gratified to be able to put out the bubbling and provocative laboratory-mix of very different talents that makes the Chômu catalogue so dynamic, and we have been fortunate to have had so many strange treasures submitted to us to make this possible. We hope that they will not long stay out of print.

Chômu titles will be removed from distribution at the end of January (there might be separate announcements concerning the Dadaoism anthology), so you still have almost two months in which to buy up any titles that you have not so far collected.

At a later date, I hope I will have the necessary distance (and the time) to write more fully about what has been such an important part of my life. For now, let me write simply that I hope that readers, writers and others who have had anything to do with Chômu, will have fond memories. If I may, I would also like to take the opportunity to express the hope that the relatively brief activity of Chômu has helped to demonstrate that Print-on-Demand books, far from being disposable, can and do become collectable. A Print-on-Demand book is a limited edition whose limitation we don’t know until the end.

With best wishes,

Quentin S. Crisp

Back from Brighton and prize draw results

Chomu Press Admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:21:14 +0000

Last weekend, Chômu Press were present in Brighton for FantasyCon 2012 – thank you to all those who stopped by the stall in the dealers’ room and bought books. We returned clutching something that resembled a segment of the Key to Time. This was the PS Publishing Independent Press Award for best small press, one of the categories in the British Fantasy Awards. The other publishers shortlisted in this category were Gray Friar Press, Spectral Press and Newcon Press, to whom we extend our congratulations.

The PS Publishing Independent Press Award sits next to Adam Nevill's August Derleth Award for best horror novel.

We would like to thank, therefore, whoever nominated us, the special jury who finally selected us for the award, and everyone with enough curiosity, taste, etc., to have discovered Chômu books for themselves. We very much hope, with all your continued support, to go on producing quality books that are exciting, surprising, and by turns (or at the same time) difficult and accessible… and both of those things in a good way.

All God’s Angels, Beware! prize draw results

Finally, we would like to announce the winner of the All God’s Angels, Beware! prize draw. And the winner is… Dan L. from Canada. Mr. L will be receiving a specially inscribed copy of All God’s Angels, Beware! plus some Kodagain CDs. Photos may be featured in a later update.

If you signed up to our mailing list at FantasyCon, you may have won our FantasyCon prize draw, so please keep an eye on your e-mail in-box, and watch this space.

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Farewell from and to Chômu Press

Back from Brighton and prize draw results

All God’s Angels, Beware! prize draw results