Quote from: theotherjohn on May 28, 2026, 09:46:00 PMMine's on the way too, might even arrive next week at this rate.
Philip Best has shared the sad news of Creation Books' founder Jason Williamson's unfortunate passing, via the Amphetamine Sulphate substack. In it you'll find an (unpublished until now?) introduction to an annotated bibliography that Peter wrote detailing his long history with James as a friend, writer, publisher and mischief maker. End of an era for independent publishing for sure, glad I was along for some of the ride.
https://amphetaminesulphate.substack.com/p/truth-speed
Although Creation Books was initially legendary for publishing excellent underground material, it eventually turned out to be a complete scam for several authors and some buyers. Jason Williamson -one of the many pseudonyms used by the publisher's owner- moved to Thailand in the early 2000s and took advantage of the country's weak extradition laws to sell his entire catalog, including reissues and translations, without paying the writers a single cent. If my memory serves me correctly, Boyd Rice and another author I can't recall, after unsuccessfully suing Jason, eventually managed one way or another to get all the major distributors to stop carrying Creation Books material in the U.S. and Europe. After that, Creation Books apparently continued to "operate" but was a shadow of its former self.
I'm not in the mood right now to Google all the backstory on that topic, but I'm sure more than a few of you already knew about this. What surprised me was learning that Pete remained on good terms with him until the very end - I had always believed that he, too, had been swindled.
In any case, I'm not going to feel sad about the death of someone who unscrupulously profited from deceiving writers and artists.
