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11/11/02
Andrew Hook's book The Virtual Menagerie was officially launched on 9th November 2002 with a performance event in Norwich. Bringing the word to the street, fellow writer David Allen Lambert read random excerpts from the book whilst Andrew was seated motionless wearing the now ubiquitous mask. This 90 minute performance attracted some curious interest and the distribution of over 200 leaflets. In the evening a lively discussion ensued at the York Tavern amid the book signings and beer. Further events to publicise the book, including local readings and signings will be announced shortly.
Launch - posted October 2002 The formal launch of Andrew Hook's The Virtual Menagerie will take place on Saturday 9th November 2002. Around midday a performance event is planned which will take place on London Street, in Norwich, following which signings, sales, and salutations are envisaged at the York Tavern, Unthank Road, Norwich from 5pm to closing time. All welcome. Readings - The Virtual Menagerie Andrew Hook continued to promote his anthology by reading April Syrup from The Virtual Menagerie at the 9th January 2003 Cafewriters' Meeting, held at the Marzano Bar in The Forum, Norwich. A similar event, incorporating a talk on the virtues of the independent press, is also planned for 13th February 2003 at a meeting of the Octagon Writers Group, King of Hearts, Magdalen Street, Norwich. For more information contact Elastic Press. April 2003 - Press Release The third collection to be published under this banner will be Second Contact by Gary Couzens (publication date 1st May 2003). Gary Couzens is currently Chairman of the British Fantasy Society and one of the foremost writers of slipstream fiction being published within the independent press. His publication credits include appearances in The Third Alternative, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Roadworks, and Crimewave amongst others. "Set slightly in the future during a total eclipse, Gary Couzens's outstanding 'Second Contact' qualifies vaguely as SF but is fundamentally a series of well-drawn character studies, focusing mostly on the growing friendship between a young American woman and a gay Englishman as they anticipate this once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle" (Murray C. Steward, Zene #16). Attractively packaged with a full colour cover this anthology of 16 stories, 2 novelettes and 1 novella nudges conventional genre boundaries, deftly exploring the fringes of experience to burrow deeply amidst our heartfelt fascinations and fears. Dissecting the relationships between time and identity, perception and misconception, longing and alienation, Couzens's often cinematic prose evokes realities just below the surface of common experience. For each story here there will be a connection with someone, somewhere. From Second Contact: Total eclipse. Portent of millennial disaster, or the time when, as they say, in its special darkness you can see yourself more clearly? From Eggshells: It's cold. The fine hairs on my arms are stiff as needles. I blink. There's a tightness in my head like G-force, as if I'm receding at great speed from this room, this scene. The voices decline into murmurs. I clutch at my stomach, hoping I'm not going to faint or be sick. A prickling on my scalp, like tiny claws scrabbling. From Amber: Whatever it was that had taken Thomas, it didn't want me. It hadn't wanted me as a girl; it didn't want me as a woman. Somehow time had wrinkled, but why it took Thomas and left me behind I will never know.
August 2004 - Launch for Allen Ashley's Collection, 'Somnambulists'. Allen Ashley's book launch for 'Somnambulists' featured a dramatised reading of his story 'Pumpkin Coach' performed by Allen Ashley as George Perrault, Sarah Southon as Barbara O'Sequious and (in costume) Bev Willis as Poet Laureate
Allen Ashley poses with 'Somnambulists' cover designer Dean Harkness outside Kulture Shock bookstore prior to the signing on 14th August.
May 2004 - Reading/Signing
Brian Howell reading from his collection, The Sound of White Ants, at the Caravan bookstore in Tokyo.
February 2004 - New Anthology! Elastic Press is pleased to announce that we are now open to submissions for a new multi-author themed anthology. For full details on The Elastic Book of Numbers see here. Author for August announced.
Allen Ashley
and Andrew Hook sign contracts for "Somnambulists",
a collection January 2004 - Jung's People Launch Party Hot on the tail of the successful launch of "The Alsiso Project" in London last Saturday comes the seventh publication from Elastic Press. Following our policy of publishing those authors with very distinctive authorial voices we present "Jung's People" by emerging talent, Kay Green. The book will be launched on Saturday 31st January 2004 at Harpers Bar, Claremont, off Robertson Street, Hastings, East Sussex from 2pm. In addition to Kay's attendance, both Andrew Hook and Marie O'Regan from Elastic Press will be there for a chat, so please come along and take a look at how Elastic Press is developing at the forefront of independent press publishing. Pictures from The Alsiso Project Launch Party
Top (from left to right): Marie O’Regan, Paul Kane, Conrad Williams, Sarah Crabtree, Nick Jackson, Gary Couzens, Stuart Young, Justina Robson, Andrew Hook. Bottom (from left to right): Tony Richards, Michael Marshall Smith, Nicholas Royle, Paul Kane, Morgan Phillips, Sue Phillips, Kay Green.
Photographs copyright 2004 Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane December 2003 - The Alsiso Project Launch Party The launch venue for The Alsiso Project has now been finalised and will take place at the Citte of Yorke pub, 22 High Holborn, London on Saturday 10th January 2004 from 2pm onwards. A map showing the location is here. This is an attractive pub with a good atmosphere, and for those who prefer signed copies of the book, several Alsiso contributors should be in attendance ( Justina Robson, Allen Ashley and Kay Green to name but three). "The Alsiso Project" Looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. November 2003 - Milo & I Launch Party.
Andrew Hook (left) and Antony Mann (right) celebrate the launch of Milo & I. October 2003 - Milo & I Launch Details Announced. The launch details for the fifth Elastic Press publication, a collection of "weird crime" stories by Antony Mann have now been finalised. The event will commence from 2pm on publication day, 1st November 2003, at Far From The Madding Crowd, Friar's Entry, Oxford. This is a pub with a distinctly artistic bent - they have a lot of art exhibitions and so forth, and the ambience is spot on. For those of you making the journey these are the directions: From the train station, five/ten minutes. Walk up into town along Hythe Bridge Street, cross over into George Street (the bus station should soon appear on your left) and up then left into Gloucester Street. Friar's Entry is on the right past the pub beer garden, and Far From The Madding Crowd is forty yards down Friar's Entry on the right. October 2003 - CWA Dagger Awards News. Elastic authors Marion Arnott and Antony Mann have both been shortlisted for the 2003 CWA Awards for best short story. Marion for Dollface published in her Elastic Press Sleepwalkers anthology this August, and Antony for Esther Gordon Framlingham originally published this year in Crimewave, which will also be reprinted in his Elastic Press anthology Milo and I published this November. Good news for these stablemates and further confirmation that we're continuing to publish the best in new fiction, whatever the genre. August 2003 - Launch Party
Marion Arnott's anthology, Sleepwalkers, was successfully launched at Borders bookstore in Glasgow on 16th August 2003. The capacity audience listened without a murmur as Marion read excerpts from three of the tales, which was then followed by a short question and answer session.
February 2003 - Book Signing
Andrew Humphrey & Andrew Hook pictured at the Kulture Shock book signing event 22/2/03. |
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