Pulphouse Publishing was an American small press publisher based in Eugene, Oregon , and specializing in science fiction and fantasy. It was founded by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch in 1988. The press was active until 1996. Over that period, Pulphouse published 244 different titles.
21-549: John Gregory Betancourt (born October 25, 1963) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and mystery novels, as well as short stories . He is also known as the founder and publisher, with his wife Kim Betancourt , of Wildside Press in 1989. In 1998, they entered the print on demand (PoD) market and greatly expanded their production. In addition to publishing new novels and short stories, they have undertaken projects to publish new editions of collections of stories that appeared in historic magazines. Prior to establishing
42-486: A World Fantasy Award for Best Collection of the Year. Weird Tales was sold to Betancourt in late 2005. He has continued to publish the magazine through Wildside Press . In 2006 he hired Stephen H. Segal as Editorial Director of the magazine; Segal subsequently recruited Ann VanderMeer as fiction editor. In 2009, Segal and VanderMeer won a Hugo Award for Weird Tales in the category of Best Semiprozine . The magazine
63-474: A Bachelor of Arts. Betancourt has alternated between writing and editing throughout his career. He worked for Amazing Stories as an assistant editor from 1985 to 1987. When the Philadelphia office shut down, he co-founded a literary agency with George Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer . A year later, Betancourt, Scithers, and Schweitzer licensed the name Weird Tales from Weird Tales, Ltd. and revived
84-693: A critical theorist. When he was a child, the Betancourt family spent summers in Greece , especially Crete , where his father worked on the excavation at Kommos in the 1970s, and Pseira in the 1980s. There the younger Betancourt developed a love for reading and discovered such diverse writers as Clark Ashton Smith , Michael Moorcock , and Jack Vance through books imported from the United Kingdom. He said of this time, "When I ran out of stories, I made up my own to keep myself entertained. I can trace
105-721: A date, and Issues 15 through 19 were undated. Smith edited a series of twenty-nine monthly chapbooks for Pulphouse under the collective title "Author's Choice Monthly" from 1989 through 1992. Each of these books were published in a limited edition and included stories by a single author. Authors in the series included Karl Edward Wagner (#2 Unthreatened by the Morning Light ), Damon Knight (#21: God's Nose ), and Esther Friesner (#23: It's Been Fun ). In 1989, Pulphouse Publishing acquired Axolotl Press (founded by John Pelan in 1986) and began using it as an imprint. From 1989 through 1994, 26 titles were published using some form of
126-501: A hobby. Betancourt was named science fiction editor for Byron Preiss Visual Publications in 1990. He worked for Byron Preiss for 7 years, rising to senior editor, before leaving to write full-time and take care of his and Kim Betancourt's first child. This marked the beginning of his most prolific period as an author. Betancourt also continued to publish books through Wildside Press during this period, using local short-run printers and Pulphouse Publishing to print new titles. Some of
147-434: A quarterly magazine in hardback form edited by Rusch. In addition to twelve issues, each of them themed, they published an "issue 0" which was a hardcover filled with blank pages to use as a sample to show prospective buyers. Pulphouse included stories by notable science fiction and fantasy authors including Charles de Lint , Michael Bishop , Michael Swanwick , and Harlan Ellison . In addition, each issue included essays on
168-474: A senior editor for Byron Preiss Visual Publications (1989–1996) and iBooks. Betancourt wrote four Star Trek novels and the new Chronicles of Amber prequel series, as well as a dozen original novels. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as Writer's Digest , The Washington Post , and Amazing Stories . Betancourt's father is Felipe Pablo "Philip" Betancourt , an archeologist. His brother Michael Betancourt became
189-624: A variety of subjects. In 1989, Smith and Rusch won the World Fantasy Award in the Special Award: Non Professional category for their work on Pulphouse. From 1992 through 1994, Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine . The Best of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine was published by Tor Books in 1991 and collected stories which had already appeared in
210-523: The 2000–07 period included such authors and editors as P.D. Cacek , Darrell Schweitzer , George H. Scithers , Vera Nazarian , Stephen H. Segal , and Sean Wallace . In 2006, Betancourt partnered with AudioRealms to release new and classic science fiction, fantasy, and horror in Audiobook format. Initial releases included H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy and Andre Norton's The Time Traders , as well as works by Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. At
231-535: The Axolotl name. Series numbering seemed to begin with #09 and end with #30, there are two #16's printed in 1990. "Special editions" were also included. In addition to Axolotl, Pulphouse introduced Mystery Scene Press, which published a handful of mysteries in 1993, including the first two volumes in an Author's Choice series focused on mysteries. Pulphouse also used Writer's Notebook Press from 1990 through 1994 for four titles which focused on non-fictional aspects of
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#1732780371296252-738: The Wolfe Pack's annual Black Orchid Banquet on December 1, 2007. John Gregory Betancourt lives in Maryland with his wife Kim and two children. Mystery fiction Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 568354621 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:52:51 GMT Pulphouse Publishing From 1988 through 1993, Pulphouse published
273-408: The course of its run, the magazine published stories by George Alec Effinger , Mike Resnick , Lawrence Watt-Evans , Andre Norton , O'Neil De Noux and Jeff VanderMeer . In addition to short stories, Pulphouse included serials by Spider & Jeanne Robinson and Robert Sheckley . Starting with issue zero March 1, 1991, and running through issue 19. Issue 9 started giving a month, instead of
294-638: The impulse to become a writer to age fourteen, when I spent most of a summer writing sequels to classics like Treasure Island ." Betancourt's first published work was a poem, "The Argia," in Space & Time magazine at age 15. At age 16, he made his first professional sale, "Vernon's Dragon," to the anthology 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories , edited by Isaac Asimov , John F. Carr, and Martin H. Greenberg. He began The Blind Archer , at age 17, finished it at age 18, and sold it to Avon Books as his debut novel at age 19. He graduated from Temple University with
315-523: The limited editions, particularly titles by Mike Resnick , are impressive efforts. The limited editions of Resnick's Lucifer Jones series are bound in such exotic materials as Spanish cork, French leopard-patterned cloth, and leather. The limited editions he published of Bradley Denton 's two short story collections are bound in Spanish snakeskin-patterned cloth and elephant-hide paper. The lettered editions have mahogany slipcases. The Denton collections won
336-454: The magazine as well as stories which were slated for later publication. In 1991, Pulphouse announced plans to publish a weekly fiction magazine, also called Pulphouse . Although they published 19 issues between 1991 and 1995, the magazine never achieved weekly status and after the fifth issue the subtitle was changed from A Weekly Magazine to A Fiction Magazine . Pulphouse Weekly was initially edited by Smith and later by Jonathan Bond. Over
357-457: The magazine. Betancourt worked as an editor there until 1990. Betancourt married Kim Betancourt (née Hermo) in 1989, and they moved from Philadelphia to Newark, New Jersey . He founded Wildside Press in 1989 to publish a collection of essays by Fritz Leiber designed to commemorate Leiber's appearance as Principal Speaker at Philcon that year. The book, Fafhrd & Me sold out quickly, and Betancourt decided to publish additional titles as
378-532: The new business, Betancourt worked as an assistant editor at Amazing Stories and editor of Horror: The Newsmagazine of the Horror Field , the revived Weird Tales magazine, the first issue of H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror (which he subsequently hired Marvin Kaye to edit), Cat Tales magazine (which he subsequently hired George H. Scithers to edit), and Adventure Tales magazine. He worked as
399-557: The same time, Betancourt created a new mass-market paperback line, Cosmos Books, with Dorchester Publishing . In 2007, Betancourt received the Black Orchid Novella Award from the Nero Wolfe Society (the "Wolfe Pack") and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine for his novella "Horse Pit." The award, which consisted of a certificate, a prize of $ 1,000, and publication in the magazine, was presented at
420-504: The science fiction writing business. (Single Author Collections) (Trade Paperback $ 5.95 Limited Cloth $ 25.00) ($ 1.95) Pulphouse collapsed after wildly over-expanding the number of titles published every year, including several commercially unviable lines (such as the Short Story Paperback/Hardback line), leaving at least one title ( Harlan Ellison 's Ellison Under Glass ) paid for but undelivered. In
441-817: Was also nominated for a 2009 World Fantasy Award . In 1998, Betancourt discovered print on demand technology, which produces one book at a time. He became a pioneer in the field, bringing hundreds (eventually thousands) of books into print through PoD . Betancourt incorporated Wildside Press in 2004 and continued to expand the company, as gross annual sales continued to grow. As of January 2010, Wildside Press had more than 11,000 books in print, ranging from classic literature to genre titles by H. Beam Piper , John W. Campbell, Jr. , Andre Norton , and others. Wildside Press took up an increasing amount of his time, though Betancourt still managed to produce one novel and several short stories most years. He brought in genre writers and editors to work on Wildside Press projects. Employees in
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