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Encyclopedia > Wildside Press

Wildside Press is an independent publishing company located in Maryland. It was started in 1989 by John Gregory and Kim Betancourt. While the magazine originally began as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, it has broadened out somewhat since then, both in content and format. It now publishes mysteries and nonfiction, as well as eBooks and magazines. The company has published work by a number of writers, including Paul Di Filippo, Alan Dean Foster, Esther Friesner, Nick Mamatas, Vera Nazarian, and Alan Rodgers. 1. ... Official language(s) None Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 42nd 32,160 km² 145 km 400 km 21 37°53N to 39°43N 75°4W to 79°33W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 19th 5,296,486 165... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Gregory Betancourt (b. ... ... The term special edition implies a kind of an extraordinary, rare quality. ... In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... Non-fiction is a truthful account or representation of a subject which is composed of facts. ... An ebook is an electronic (or digital) version of a book. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Science Fiction writer born 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy novels and movie novelizations. ... Esther Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces. ... Nick Mamatas (born February 20, 1972) is an author of novels, short stories, and essays. ...


In addition to newer writers, the company works at keeping of older authors in print, such as James Branch Cabell, H. Rider Haggard, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as lesser known scribes. The publisher also has a specialty reprint project going, reproducing old issues of such pulp magazines as The Phantom Detective, Secret Agent X, and The Spider. James Branch Cabell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935 James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. ... H. Rider Haggard, author Sir Henry Rider Haggard (June 22, 1856 – May 14, 1925), born in Bradenham, Norfolk, England, was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in locations considered exotic by readers in his native England. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ... This article is about the pulp magazine character. ...


Imprints

Prime Books is an independent book publisher, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels and short story collections. ... The Borgo Press was a small publishing company founded by Robert Reginald in 1975 funded by the royalties gained from his first major reference work. ...

Magazines

  • Adventure Tales
  • Cat Tales: The Magazine of Fantastic Feline Fiction
  • Fantasy Magazine
  • H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
  • Jabberwocky
  • Strange Tales
  • Underworlds: The Magazine of Noir and Dark Suspense
  • Weird Tales

Strange Tales was the name of several comic book anthology series that have been published by Marvel Comics. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ...

External links

  • http://www.wildsidepress.com/ Official site, including online store.
  • http://www.mysterymovies.com/

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Sample Author Contract (1171 words)
You grant Wildside Press the sole and exclusive right to publish, distribute, and license subsidiary editions of The Work in hardcover, trade paperback, mass-market paperback, book club, electronic (ebook), and print-on-demand formats in the English language in all countries throughout the world.
You hereby grant Wildside Press the right and authority to use your names on The Work and in all promotion and publicity for The Work in Wildside Press's sole discretion.
One month after receipt of notice of termination, Wildside Press shall cease to make The Work available on a print-on-demand basis, but shall have the right to sell whatever inventory remains on hand and shall continue to pay all royalties and other monies due to you from sublicensed editions, if any.
The SF Site: A Conversation With John Betancourt (3700 words)
Wildside Press started as a hobby; I was trying to collect signed, limited edition books -- but I found them so overpriced as to be largely unaffordable to someone of limited means, like myself.
Wildside Press has produced some truly beautiful books, but I deliberately priced them less than half of what other publishers were doing.
At the moment, however, Wildside Press is the big fish in the print-on-demand pond with regard to the science fiction field.
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