Ash-Tree Press

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Publishers

Ash-Tree Press

Founded:	1994
Founded by:	Barbara and Chris Roden
Location:	P.O. Box 1360 Ashcroft,, British Columbia V0K 1A0 Canada
Titles/Circulation:	0
Links:	http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/ashtreecurrent.html

History

Since 1994, Ash-Tree Press has published a wide range of quality supernatural fiction in hardcover limited editions, generally of 5–600 copies. All of our hardcovers are bound in a luxury cloth, smyth sewn, and printed on ph neutral paper, all of which means that they are designed to last, and to remain a pleasure to hold, read, and enjoy for the whole of their lifetime. Since December 2000, when we published Shadows and Silence, our second anthology of all new fiction, the majority of our dust-jackets have appeared in a four-colour, laminated format; though we still retain the original two-colour style on occasion, particularly where titles are part of an on-going series.

Our books are not inexpensive, and there are a number of reasons why that is so: chiefly the cost of producing high quality in low print-runs. Additionally, however, the climate for doing business with the Canadian printing industry is generally less favourable than in the US and the UK, and, as many constituent parts of our books are purchased from the US, we also have a volatile dollar exchange rate to deal with. We believe, however, that Ash-Tree Press's pricing is more than competitive with that of other small presses operating in the genre; and we endeavour to ensure that our quality is unsurpassed.

In December 2002, Ash-Tree Press introduced a range of paperback titles, to enable us to bring lower-priced books to the market-place. At the time of writing (November 2003), there are three separate imprints: Classic Macabre (which handles material pre-2000); Vampire Classics (which is exactly what it says it is!); and New Century Macabre, our imprint for contemporary novellas, and shorter fiction which we are unable to fit into our hardback schedule for a variety of reasons.

Our paperbacks are also produced to a high quality. Signatures are sewn, rather than glued or notch-bound, and the books are finished with full four-colour, laminated jackets with fold-around flaps. All of this ensures a quality product, and durability which trade paperbacks simply cannot offer. Paper stock used in our paperbacks is exactly the same as for our hardbacks, and whenever possible, volumes have specially commissioned introductory material.

It is our aim that Ash-Tree Press products will remain at the forefront of Small Press supernatural genre publishing for many years to come; and we are always interested in hearing relevant comment from our customers.