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It's been a long time between newsletters, but we're hoping to get things back on even keel starting in May, releasing smaller newsletters two times a month in order to keep on top of things, regularly. It's the only way to report everything that we're doing, as it's going down. There's quite a lot to report this time around, so I'm going to keep this part short, but we're back and we've got news to report . . .
The latest change for Wildside Press, LLC, included a complete move to downtown offices, in Rockville, MD. It's a big improvement on our old location, with a lot more room to expand out, with a possibility to even acquire a second office nearby. This doesn't mean, though, that our address has changed, as the PO Box is still valid and will still be for quite a bit. Perhaps for the next newsletter we'll post photographs of the new office, as it's in a lovely converted-Victorian house, with a turret-window.
The latest batch of offset titles are coming off the presses, which include the following:
All will be available nationally, through Diamond Books Distributors, in the next few weeks, so give them time and you should start seeing them on chain bookshelves any day now.
Prime Books is proud to announce a new series of "year's best" fiction anthologies covering science fiction, fantasy, and horror, for early summer releases in trade paperback editions. Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, and Fantasy: The Best of the Year, will be edited by notable genre expert Rich Horton.
Horror: The Best of the Year will be edited by World Fantasy Award-nominated editors John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace. Covering the best short fiction of 2005 these three anthologes will reprint modern classics from authors including Clive Barker, Peter Beagle, Ramsey Campbell, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, James Patrick Kelly, Caitlin Kiernan, Joe Lansdale, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Swanwick, Gene Wolfe, and many more.
Wildside Press announces a new imprint, Juno Books, debuting the fourth quarter of 2006 with one title planned monthly for October, November, and December.
Juno: fantasy featuring strong female chracters in richly-imagined contexts with romantic or erotic elements. Initial releases include original novels Jade Tiger by Jenn Reese, Beyond the Hedge by Roby James, and Rags and Old Iron by Lorelei Shannon as well as anthology Best New Paranormal Romance, edited by Paula Guran.
PointBlank, the Wildside Press crime/noir originals and reprint imprint, will be relaunched for the fourth quarter of 2006 with one title planned monthly for October, November, and December. Novels Two-Way Split by Allan Guthrie, The Blue Cheer by Ed Lynskey, and Secret Dead Men by Duane Swierczynski, as well as anthology Best New Noir, edited by Allan Guthrie are slated.
Prime Books announces the establishment of a prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy, guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. The inaugural volume will be published in June 2007, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.
October marks the launch of an audio book division, Wildside Audio Library, with six titles already scheduled for national distribution, in both audio and mp3 editions, which include the following:
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, edited by Rich Horton
The Dunwich Horror / The Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft
The Engineer ReConditioned, by Neal Asher:
"British author Asher is rapidly becoming one of the major figures in 21st-century science fiction, as shown by the ten powerful and entertaining stories in this collection. . . . . though occasionally unpleasant (the author appears to have a thing about parasites) and often violent, these well-crafted tales provide plenty of high-concept scientific extrapolation."
— Publishers Weekly
A Verse from Babylon, by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
"Ghosts from the Holocaust whisper, shout, moan and weep throughout these fragmented fictional "recollections" of the Vilna ghetto between 1937 and 1944. If 1930s Warsaw was the heart of Judaism, claims Ferreira in her prologue to this searing debut novel, Vilna was its "muscled right arm, the refined hand, the lively fingers. . . ."
— Publishers Weekly
In the Forest of Forgetting, by Theodora Goss
"In case it's not made clear enough over the course of the next few paragraphs, it should be said right away that praise is due Theodora Goss, praise be. In the Forest of Forgetting ranks with Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts, Glen Hirshberg's The Two Sams and Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners as one of the finest collections of short fiction from a member of that class of authors of the 21st century who are comfortable here."
—John Clute
Toast, by Charles Stross
"The title of Stross's provocative new science fiction collection — a revised, expanded version of a 2002 title of the same name — is a mordant reference to catastrophes at the climaxes of these eleven stories . . . In Stross's worlds, virtual reality is the new frontier, AI is a fact of life and everyone is fluent in the sometimes impenetrable technogeek-speak that goes with the territory. For all that, his characters are familiar and sympathetic hackers, slackers and opportunists, whose lives have not been improved by their technological expertise, and whose adventures he interweaves seamlessly with the circuitry."
— Publishers Weekly
The Sound of Angels, by Lisa Silverthorne
"Silverthorne’s words ring clear and her prose flows well . . . This collection of stories center around death — some more prominently than others — yet Silverthorne always finds the brightest side of mortality. Her stories are thought-provoking and engrossing, and in The Sound of Angels, abundant."
— Tangent Online
Singing Innocence and Experience, by Sonya Taaffe
Taaffe's first story collection offers evocative reimaginings of myths and iconic images, from unicorns, golems and ghosts to tragic Orpheus and Eurydice . . . despite the presence of a few too many earnest young student-artists and musicians obsessed with love or knowledge, Taaffe's gift for evoking mood and revealing hard truths beautifully is nothing short of marvelous."
— Publishers Weekly
Parke Godwin has sold his second short story collection, The Night You Could Hear Forever, to Sean Wallace and John Betancourt, at Wildside Press, for a late 2006 release, in hardcover and paperback, with an introduction by Charles de Lint.
Sean McMullen has sold his second short story collection, Walking to the Moon, to Sean Wallace at Cosmos Books, for an early 2007 release, in hardcover and paperback.
Lawrence Watt-Evans has sold his ninth Ethshar novel, The Spriggan Mirror, to John Betancourt at Wildside Press, for a mid-September 2006 release, with a cover by Charles Bernard.
Burning Stones, by Steven Mills
In a world already desolated by an avian influenza, paramedic Alex Gauthier's twenty-one-year-old daughter, Gemma, afflicted by the so-called Lucy virus, is devolving—turning into a protohuman—while forest fires besiege the valley where they live. When Gemma asks Alex to kill her—perform a mercy killing—when she is no longer human, he finds himself making a promise he doesn't want to keep . . . Burning Stones is the harrowing story of devolution, and of making choices no one wants to have to make.
Killing with the Edge of the Moon, by AA Attanasio
This modern, demonic fairy tale weaves together themes of passion and self-discovery into an intricate Celtic knot of myth, moon magic, and teen romance. Thrust together in a dark, erotic Otherworld, Flannery and Chet discover they know each other better than they know their own hearts . . .
The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 5: Valley of the Worm, by Robert E. Howard
The fifth collection of Robert E. Howard's fantasy work from the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales (and several of its rivals) features another lineup filled with classic fiction and poetry from Howard's greatest writing years. Included in this volume are four stories with Howard's most famous character, Conan ("Black Colossus," "The Slithering Shadow," "The Pool of the Black One," and "Rogues in the House"), as well as several historical and contemporary fantasies.
Jabberwocky 2, edited by Sean Wallace
The second volume in the acclaimed Jabberwocky series includes short stories by Jeannelle M. Ferreira, Megan Messinger, Richard Parks, Holly Phillips, Cassandra Phillips-Sears, Erzebet YellowBoy; and poetry by Mike Allen, Helena Bell, Constance Cooper, Jennifer Crow, Ainsley Dicks, Theodora Goss, Jaida Jones, Sarah Koplik, Yoon Ha Lee, Rio Le Moignan, Tim Pratt, Shirl Sazynski, Veronica Schanoes, Ann Schwader, Sarah Singleton, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, JoSelle VanderHooft, Laurel Winter, and Jane Yolen.
Move Under Ground, by Nick Mamatas
The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of watery sleep, the stars are finally right. Old R'lyeh rises out of the Pacific, ready to cast its damned shadow over the primitive human world. The first to see its peaks: an alcoholic, paranoid, and frightened Jack Kerouac, who had been drinking off a nervous breakdown up in Big Sur. Now Jack must get back on the road to find Neal Cassady, the holy fool whose rambling letters hint of a world brought to its knees in worship of the Elder God Cthulhu. Together with pistol-packin' junkie William S. Burroughs, Jack and Neal make their way across the continent to face down the murderous Lovecraftian cult that has spread its darkness to the heart of the American Dream . . .
The Sound of Angels, by Lisa Silverthorne
Somewhere in the twilight between life and death is the blur of wings, the echo of voices . . . the sound of angels. Take a journey through the worlds of Lisa Silverthorne, some ordinary and some otherworldly, some primordial and some ethereal, but all of them exploring the different shades of wonder and magic in the human experience.
Introduction by Dean Wesley Smith.
Mythic, edited by Mike Allen
Longtime Mythic Delirium editor Mike Allen returns to his fiction roots with Mythic, a digest of fantasy prose and verse in the tradition of Prime Books' Jabberwocky. This volume, the first of a planned anthology series, places off-beat new talents like Matthew Cheney, Theodora Goss, Richard Parks and Sonya Taaffe alongside veterans such as Joe Haldeman and Ian Watson to offer a unique literary smorgasbord of humor and horror, wonder and wisdom.
We're preparing for BookExpoAmerica, our second time attending this trade convention, which is in late May. If you plan on attending please drop on by and say hello to us, as we'll be happy to sit down and chat with you!
