Wildside Press
{{short description|American independent publishing company}}
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1989}}
| founder = John Gregory Betancourt
Kim Betancourt
| country = United States
| headquarters = Rockville, Maryland
| distribution = Diamond Book Distributors{{Cite web|url=https://www.diamondbookdistributors.com/default.asp?t=2&m=1&c=53&s=660|title=diamondbookdistributors.com - Publishers|website=www.diamondbookdistributors.com|access-date=May 10, 2020}}
| keypeople = John Gregory Betancourt
Kim Betancourt
| publications = Audiobooks, CDs, Books, E-books, Magazines
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| genre = Science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, speculative fiction, romance, non-fiction
| imprints = Borgo Press, Cosmos Books,{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?3207|title=Cosmos Books / Wildside Press - Bibliography|website=ISFDB.org|access-date=March 10, 2015}} Point Blank
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| url = {{URL|http://www.wildsidepress.com}}
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Wildside Press is an independent publishing company in Cabin John, Maryland. 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 notes publication of works of mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction, as well as downloadable audiobooks and CDs,{{cite web|url=http://wildsidepress.com/audiobooks-and-cds/|title=Audiobooks and CDs| website =Wildside Press|access-date=August 19, 2015}} ebooks, magazines, and physical books.{{cite web|url=http://wildsidepress.com/home.asp|website=wildsidepress.com|title=Home page metadata for Home page|access-date=August 19, 2015}} Wildside Press has published approximately 10,000 books through print on demand and traditional means.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
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, Ionuț Caragea, Michael Kurland, Paul Levinson, David Langford, 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 has a specialty reprint project, reproducing old issues of such pulp magazines as The Phantom Detective, Secret Agent X, and Spider.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
Wildside Press has also published Robert E. Howard's ten book series called Weird Works, which comprises Howard's entire body of collected work published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, and restored to the original magazine texts.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
Imprints
- Borgo Press
- Cosmos Books
- Point Blank
Magazines
=Current=
- Adventure Tales
- Black Cat Mystery Magazine
- Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine
- Weirdbook
=Defunct=
- Cat Tales: The Magazine of Fantastic Feline Fiction{{cite book|title=Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction|editor=Scithers, George H. |edition=paperback|publisher=Wildside Press |date=September 1, 2008|asin=B00CC4382O}}{{cite book|date=April 16, 2010|title=Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction|editor=Scithers, George H.|publisher=Wildside Press|edition= 1st|isbn= 978-1434409126}}
- H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
- Strange Tales
- Underworlds: The Magazine of Noir and Dark Suspense{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
- Weird Tales
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.{{cite web|website=Wildside Press|url=http://wildsidepress.com/freebies/|title=Freebies}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.wildsidepress.com/}}
- [http://writingraw.com/files/7%20Question%20Interview%20with%20John%20Betancourt.pdf 7 Question Interview with John Betancourt]
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Category:1989 establishments in Maryland
Category:American companies established in 1989
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Category:American speculative fiction publishers
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