A press release from Steve Miller and Sharon Lee of SRM Publisher:
SRM Publisher came into being sort-of accidentally, in 1995, with the publication of Two Tales of Korval, Adventures in the Liaden Universe Number One. This 64-page saddle-stitched chapbook, with cover art by Jean Ann Pollard, included two stories—”To Cut an Edge” and “A Day at the Races”—each of which had previously been sold to magazines that then folded before the stories saw print.
Steve produced TTOK in order to satisfy fan demand for “more Liaden stories” during the Great Dry Spell—after the novels had been dropped by Del Rey and before Meisha Merlin picked up the backlist and subsequent new novels in the series.
This past February, SRM published Skyblaze, the seventeenth Adventure in the Liaden Universe.
In addition to publishing what became known as The Yule Chapbook for Liaden Universe readers and fans, SRM published and promoted SF and fantasy chapbooks by writers such as Thomas A. Easton, Ru Emerson, James A. Hetley, Lawrence M. Schoen, Mark W. Tiedemann and non-fiction by David Harris and Bud Webster.
It is with a great deal of regret that we have taken the decision to close SRM Publisher. The retail webpage is no longer accepting orders, and we are working to liquidate the remaining stock with an eye to having the business closed by the end of this year.
We want to thank everyone for their support of and interest in SRM Publisher’s doings over the last sixteen years.
—Steve Miller and Sharon Lee