Jump to content

Sean Wallace: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
AnomieBOT (talk | contribs)
Bots
6,393,667 edits
m Dating maintenance tags: {{Lead too short}}
Line 4: Line 4:


==Career==
==Career==
Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with [[Philip Harbottle]]. Their début title, ''Fantasy Annual'', was an anthology of British authors including [[E.C. Tubb]], [[John Russell Fearn]], and [[Sydney Bounds]]. In 1999, the "Cosmos Books" name was licensed to [[Wildside Press]]; output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. Wallace also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio.
Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with [[Philip Harbottle]]. Their debut title, ''Fantasy Annual'', was an anthology of British authors including [[E.C. Tubb]], [[John Russell Fearn]], and [[Sydney Bounds]]. In 1999, the "Cosmos Books" name was licensed to [[Wildside Press]]; output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. Wallace also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid 2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing publishing company, Imaginary Worlds, though commercial conditions ultimately meant the company went into bankruptcy. Wallace then launched [[Prime Books]] to publish a few of the orphaned books,<ref name="pwint">Dziemianowicz, Stefan. "Prime Suspect", ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'', p. 43, [[Reed Business Information]], July 26, 2004. Retrieved March 30, 2010.</ref> including the award-winning ''City of Saints and Madmen'', by [[Jeff VanderMeer]]. Later, in 2003, he licensed the company to Wildside Press, and moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania, subsequently becoming a senior editor. In early 2009, Wallace reacquired Prime Books, and relaunched as an independent publishing house in May that year.<ref name="prime">Wallace, Sean. [http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/226948.html Press Release: Acquisition of Prime Books]. [[LiveJournal]] (official site). February 10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref>


⚫
Wallace was twice-nominated for a [[World Fantasy Award]] in 2003 and 2004 for editing Prime Books, in the [[World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional|Special Award: Non-Professional]] and [[World Fantasy Special Award: Professional|Special Award: Professional]] categories, respectively.<ref name="wfa1">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2003.html 2003 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]". ''[[World Fantasy Award]]s'', World Fantasy Convention ([[World Fantasy Convention|WFC]]). Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 2003. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref><ref name="wfa2">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2004.html 2004 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]". ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. October 28–31, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref> Around this time, he felt there was a lack of appealing short fiction available in the literary fantasy genre. To cater to this, he launched ''[[Fantasy Magazine]]'' in 2005, at the World Fantasy Convention in Wisconsin.<ref name="efos">Foster, Eugie. {{Wayback|url=http://thefix-online.com/interviews/sean-wallace/|title="An Interview with Sean Wallace"|date=20080412065435}}, ''[[Eugie Foster|The Fix]]'', [[TTA Press]], April 7, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2010.</ref> During 2006 his first nationally-distributed book, ''Horror: The Best of the Year'' was released, and he took on a co-editing job with [[Nick Mamatas]], with ''[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]''.<ref name="cwm">[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/staff/ About us: Staff], ''[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]'', Wyrm Publishing. Retrieved September 7, 2008.</ref> That same year, he won the World Fantasy annual award in the Special Award: Professional category<ref name="wfa">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2006.html 2006 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]" ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. November 2–5, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2008.</ref> for editing Prime Books. In 2009, his work for ''Clarkesworld'' gained recognition with [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine|Hugo Award]]<ref name="hug">"[http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2009-hugo-awards/ 2009 Hugo Awards]". ''[[Hugo Award]]s'', World Science Fiction Society ([[Worldcon|WSFS]]). August 6–10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref> and World Fantasy Award nominations.<ref name="wfa4">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2009.html 2009 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]". ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. Oct. 29–Nov. 1, 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009.</ref> In 2010 and 2011, those efforts were rewarded with back-to-back [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine|Hugo Awards]]. Sean and the rest of the ''Clarkesworld'' team also received World Fantasy Award nominations in 2010 and 2012. In 2011 he served as a World Fantasy Awards judge and in 2011 he launched the [[World SF Travel Fund]] with Lavie Tidhar. He currently resides in [[Germantown, MD]] with his wife, Jennifer, and their two daughters.
In mid 2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing publishing company, Imaginary Worlds, though commercial conditions ultimately meant the company went into bankruptcy. Wallace then launched [[Prime Books]] to publish a few of the orphaned books,<ref name="pwint">Dziemianowicz, Stefan. "Prime Suspect", ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'', p. 43, [[Reed Business Information]], July 26, 2004. Retrieved March 30, 2010.</ref> including the award-winning ''City of Saints and Madmen'', by [[Jeff VanderMeer]]. Later, in 2003, he licensed the company to Wildside Press, and moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania, subsequently becoming a senior editor. In early 2009, Wallace reacquired Prime Books, and relaunched as an independent publishing house in May that year.<ref name="prime">Wallace, Sean. [http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/226948.html Press Release: Acquisition of Prime Books]. [[LiveJournal]] (official site). February 10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref>
==Works==
===The Mammoth Book series===
*''The Mammoth Book of Steampunk''(2012)
*''The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures'' (2014)
*''The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry'' (2014)


===The Realms series===
Wallace was twice-nominated for a [[World Fantasy Award]] in 2003 and 2004 for editing Prime Books, in the [[World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional|Special Award: Non-Professional]] and [[World Fantasy Special Award: Professional|Special Award: Professional]] categories, respectively.<ref name="wfa1">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2003.html 2003 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]". ''[[World Fantasy Award]]s'', World Fantasy Convention ([[World Fantasy Convention|WFC]]). Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 2003. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref><ref name="wfa2">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2004.html 2004 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]". ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. October 28–31, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref> Around this time, he felt there was a lack of appealing short fiction available in the literary fantasy genre. To cater to this, he launched ''[[Fantasy Magazine]]'' in 2005, at the World Fantasy Convention in Wisconsin.<ref name="efos">Foster, Eugie. {{Wayback|url=http://thefix-online.com/interviews/sean-wallace/|title="An Interview with Sean Wallace"|date=20080412065435}}, ''[[Eugie Foster|The Fix]]'', [[TTA Press]], April 7, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2010.</ref>
*''Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine'' (2007)
*''Realms: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine'' (2008)
*''Realms: The Third Year of Clarkesworld Magazine'' (2013)


===Other anthologies===
⚫
During 2006 his first nationally-distributed book, ''Horror: The Best of the Year'' was released, and he took on a co-editing job with [[Nick Mamatas]], with ''[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]''.<ref name="cwm">[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/staff/ About us: Staff], ''[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]'', Wyrm Publishing. Retrieved September 7, 2008.</ref> That same year, he won the World Fantasy annual award in the Special Award: Professional category<ref name="wfa">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2006.html 2006 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]" ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. November 2–5, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2008.</ref> for editing Prime Books. In 2009, his work for ''Clarkesworld'' gained recognition with [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine|Hugo Award]]<ref name="hug">"[http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2009-hugo-awards/ 2009 Hugo Awards]". ''[[Hugo Award]]s'', World Science Fiction Society ([[Worldcon|WSFS]]). August 6–10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009.</ref> and World Fantasy Award nominations.<ref name="wfa4">"[http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2009.html 2009 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees]". ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. Oct. 29–Nov. 1, 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009.</ref> In 2010 and 2011, those efforts were rewarded with back-to-back [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine|Hugo Awards]]. Sean and the rest of the ''Clarkesworld'' team also received World Fantasy Award nominations in 2010 and 2012.
*''Bandersnatch'' (2009), with Paul Tremblay
*''Best New Fantasy'' (2006)
*''Fantasy'' (2007), with Paul Tremblay
*''Horror: The Best of the Year'' (2007), with John Betancourt
*''Japanese Dreams'' (2007)
*''People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy'' (2011)
*''Phantom'' (2009), with Paul Tremblay
*''Strange Pleasures'' (2006)
*''Robots: Recent A.I.'' (2012), with Rich Horton
*''War & Space: Recent Combat'' (2012), with Rich Horton
*''Weird Tales: The Twenty-First Century'' (2007), with Stephen H. Segal


===Other works===
He currently resides in [[Rockville, MD]] with his wife, Jennifer, and their two daughters.<ref name="prime"/>
*''Jabberwocky 1''
*''Jabberwocky 2''
*''Jabberwocky 3'', with Erzebet YellowBoy
*''Jabberwocky 4'', with Erzebet YellowBoy
*''Jabberwocky 5'' with Erzebet YellowBoy
*''The Tall Adventurer: The Works of E.C. Tubb'' (1997)


==Essays and articles==
==Essays and articles==

Revision as of 17:28, 24 January 2013

Sean Wallace at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention

Sean A. Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and publisher.

Career

Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip Harbottle. Their debut title, Fantasy Annual, was an anthology of British authors including E.C. Tubb, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. In 1999, the "Cosmos Books" name was licensed to Wildside Press; output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. Wallace also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid 2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing publishing company, Imaginary Worlds, though commercial conditions ultimately meant the company went into bankruptcy. Wallace then launched Prime Books to publish a few of the orphaned books,[1] including the award-winning City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff VanderMeer. Later, in 2003, he licensed the company to Wildside Press, and moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania, subsequently becoming a senior editor. In early 2009, Wallace reacquired Prime Books, and relaunched as an independent publishing house in May that year.[2]

Wallace was twice-nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2003 and 2004 for editing Prime Books, in the Special Award: Non-Professional and Special Award: Professional categories, respectively.[3][4] Around this time, he felt there was a lack of appealing short fiction available in the literary fantasy genre. To cater to this, he launched Fantasy Magazine in 2005, at the World Fantasy Convention in Wisconsin.[5] During 2006 his first nationally-distributed book, Horror: The Best of the Year was released, and he took on a co-editing job with Nick Mamatas, with Clarkesworld Magazine.[6] That same year, he won the World Fantasy annual award in the Special Award: Professional category[7] for editing Prime Books. In 2009, his work for Clarkesworld gained recognition with Hugo Award[8] and World Fantasy Award nominations.[9] In 2010 and 2011, those efforts were rewarded with back-to-back Hugo Awards. Sean and the rest of the Clarkesworld team also received World Fantasy Award nominations in 2010 and 2012. In 2011 he served as a World Fantasy Awards judge and in 2011 he launched the World SF Travel Fund with Lavie Tidhar. He currently resides in Germantown, MD with his wife, Jennifer, and their two daughters.

Works

The Mammoth Book series

  • The Mammoth Book of Steampunk(2012)
  • The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (2014)
  • The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry (2014)

The Realms series

  • Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2007)
  • Realms: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2008)
  • Realms: The Third Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2013)

Other anthologies

  • Bandersnatch (2009), with Paul Tremblay
  • Best New Fantasy (2006)
  • Fantasy (2007), with Paul Tremblay
  • Horror: The Best of the Year (2007), with John Betancourt
  • Japanese Dreams (2007)
  • People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011)
  • Phantom (2009), with Paul Tremblay
  • Strange Pleasures (2006)
  • Robots: Recent A.I. (2012), with Rich Horton
  • War & Space: Recent Combat (2012), with Rich Horton
  • Weird Tales: The Twenty-First Century (2007), with Stephen H. Segal

Other works

  • Jabberwocky 1
  • Jabberwocky 2
  • Jabberwocky 3, with Erzebet YellowBoy
  • Jabberwocky 4, with Erzebet YellowBoy
  • Jabberwocky 5 with Erzebet YellowBoy
  • The Tall Adventurer: The Works of E.C. Tubb (1997)

Essays and articles

References

  1. ^ Dziemianowicz, Stefan. "Prime Suspect", Publishers Weekly, p. 43, Reed Business Information, July 26, 2004. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  2. ^ Wallace, Sean. Press Release: Acquisition of Prime Books. LiveJournal (official site). February 10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
  3. ^ "2003 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Convention (WFC). Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 2003. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
  4. ^ "2004 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". World Fantasy Awards, WFC. October 28–31, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
  5. ^ Foster, Eugie. Template:Wayback, The Fix, TTA Press, April 7, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  6. ^ About us: Staff, Clarkesworld Magazine, Wyrm Publishing. Retrieved September 7, 2008.
  7. ^ "2006 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees" World Fantasy Awards, WFC. November 2–5, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2008.
  8. ^ "2009 Hugo Awards". Hugo Awards, World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). August 6–10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
  9. ^ "2009 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". World Fantasy Awards, WFC. Oct. 29–Nov. 1, 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009.

Further reading

Template:Persondata

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean_Wallace&oldid=534680978"