Unfortunately, we were overly ambitious, and with a print-run of over 10,000 copies we were unprepared for the thousands of each issue that were "returned" unsold. (In point of fact, "returned" is a misnomer, as unsold copies were actually destroyed by Smiths and Menzies, etc., and we had to rely on them for the accuracy of their reports.) A lot has happened since then, and PUP returned to publishing in 2015 with the first of what would eventually be over 60 titles in paperback, hard cover and ebooks.
This first was Craig Herbertson's The Heaven Maker & Other Gruesome Tales and from 2020 we have published twelve volumes of our most successful print-run so far with Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy. At this stage we are thinking of starting another venture, with the publication of a quarterly digest-sized magazine called Beyond, perhaps 100 pages in length and dedicated to fantasy, science fiction and horror (and, of course, sword and sorcery). This is still in the formative stages as yet and there's no guarantee we will go ahead with it. That largely depends upon the response from people to the idea.
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