| Founded | 1989; 36 years ago (1989) |
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| Founder | John Gregory Betancourt Kim Betancourt |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Rockville, Maryland |
| Distribution | Diamond Book Distributors[1] |
| 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,[2]Point Blank |
| Official website | www |
Wildside Press is an independentpublishing company inCabin John, Maryland. It was founded in 1989 byJohn Betancourt andKim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher ofspeculative fiction in bothtrade andlimited editions, its focus has broadened since then, both in content and format.
Its website notes publication of works ofmystery,romance,science fiction,fantasy, andnon-fiction, as well as downloadableaudiobooks andCDs,[3]ebooks,magazines, and physical books.[4] Wildside Press has published approximately 10,000 books throughprint on demand and traditional means.[citation needed]
The company has published work by a number of contemporary writers, includingLloyd 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, andChelsea Quinn Yarbro.
In addition to newer writers, the company works at keeping established older authors in print, such asJames Branch Cabell,H. Rider Haggard, andClark Ashton Smith, as well as lesser known scribes likeR. A. Lafferty. The publisher has a specialty reprint project, reproducing old issues of suchpulp magazines asThe Phantom Detective,Secret Agent X, andSpider.[citation needed]
Wildside Press has also publishedRobert E. Howard's ten book series calledWeird Works, which comprises Howard's entire body of collected work published in the pulp magazineWeird Tales, and restored to the original magazine texts.[citation needed]
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]
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