Wildside Press
| Founded | 1989 |
|---|---|
| Founder |
John Gregory Betancourt Kim Betancourt |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Rockville, Maryland |
| Key people |
John Gregory Betancourt Kim Betancourt |
| Publication types | Audiobooks, CDs, Books, E-books, Magazines |
| Fiction genres | Science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, speculative fiction, romance, non-fiction |
| Imprints | Borgo Press, Cosmos Books,[1] Point Blank |
| Official website |
www |
Wildside Press is an independent publishing company located in Maryland, United States. It was founded in 1989 by John Betancourt and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, its focus has broadened since then, both in content and format; its website - whose metadata proclaims Wildside is "The Future of Fantasy" - now also publishes works of mystery, romance, sci-fi-fantasy, and nonfiction, as well as downloadable audiobooks and CDs,[2] eBooks, magazines, and physical books.[3] Wildside Press has published approximately 10,000 books through print on demand and traditional means.
Writers
The company has published work by a number of contemporary writers, including Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Alan Dean Foster, Paul Di Filippo, Esther Friesner, S. T. Joshi, Snowdon King, Paul Levinson, Nick Mamatas, Brian McNaughton, Vera Nazarian, Paul Park, Tim Pratt, Stephen Mark Rainey, Alan Rodgers, Darrell Schweitzer, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
In addition to newer writers, the company works at keeping established older authors in print, such as James Branch Cabell, H. Rider Haggard, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as lesser known scribes like R. A. Lafferty. The publisher also has a specialty reprint project, reproducing old issues of such pulp magazines as The Phantom Detective, Secret Agent X, and The Spider.
Wildside Press has also published Robert E. Howard's ten book series called Weird Works, which comprises Howard's entire body of work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales, restored to its original magazine texts.
Imprints
- Borgo Press
- Cosmos Books[4]
- Point Blank
Magazines
Current
Defunct
- Adventure Tales
- Cat Tales: The Magazine of Fantastic Feline Fiction[5][6]
- H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
- Strange Tales
- Underworlds: The Magazine of Noir and Dark Suspense
Ebooks
In addition to selling ebooks via its website and other booksellers', Wildside Press maintains a "Freebies" page on which it sells both permanent and weekly free selections.The weekly freebies are typically either "megapack" or "minipack" compilations.[7]
References
- ↑ "Cosmos Books / Wildside Press - Bibliography". ISFDB.org. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Audiobooks and CDs". Wildside Press. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
- ↑ "Home page metadata for Home page". wildsidepress.com. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
- ↑ "Cosmos Books / Wildside Press - Bibliography". ISFDB.org. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ↑ Scithers, George H., ed. (September 1, 2008). Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction (paperback ed.). Wildside Press. ASIN B00CC4382O.
- ↑ Scithers, George H., ed. (April 16, 2010). Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction (paperback) (1st ed.). Wildside Press. ISBN 978-1434409126.
- ↑ "Freebies". Wildside Press.