Country of origin United States Founder John Gregory Betancourt | Official website www.wildsidepress.com Founded 1989 | |
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Publication types Audiobooks, CDs, Books, E-books, Magazines Headquarters location Rockville, Maryland, United States Headquarters Rockville, Maryland, United States Fiction genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Speculative fiction, Romance novel, Non-fiction Key people John Gregory Betancourt, Kim Betancourt Imprints Prime Books, Borgo Press, Cosmos Books, Point Blank Profiles | ||
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, eBooks, magazines, and physical books. Wildside Press has published approximately 10,000 books through print on demand and traditional means.
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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.
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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.