In my email today was a newsletter from Andrew Hook informing the world that Elastic Press is to cease business. The good news is that there is no financial crisis. The company is solvent and payments to authors will continue. However, Andrew has found that running a small press is not fun anymore, and he is wisely deciding to quit while he’s ahead.

Elastic didn’t produce many books that were to my taste: for example they did a lot of collections of little-known authors. However, what I did read was very interesting, and the company always looked like it knew what it was doing. They will be missed.

In the meantime, of course, look out for some bargains as they run down their stock.