Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American

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anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, '' Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' The Dark Magazine'', and ''

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''. He has been nominated a number of times by both the

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and the World Fantasy Awards, won three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and has served as a World Fantasy Award judge.

Career

Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip J. Harbottle, and released ''Fantasy Annual'', a paperback magazine of British authors including

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, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. In 1999, the Cosmos Books name was licensed to Wildside Press and output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. He also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid-2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing company, Imaginary Worlds, though it soon went into bankruptcy. Wallace then launched Prime Books to publish a few of the orphaned books,Dziemianowicz, Stefan. "Prime Suspect", ''

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, July 26, 2004. Retrieved March 30, 2010. including the award-winning ''City of Saints and Madmen'', by

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. Later, in 2003, he licensed the company to Wildside Press, and moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania, as a full-time senior editor. In early 2009, Wallace reacquired Prime Books, and relaunched it as an independent publishing house in May that year.Wallace, Sean
Press Release: Acquisition of Prime Books

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(official site). February 10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009. 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.2003 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees
". '' World Fantasy Awards'', World Fantasy Convention ( WFC). Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 2003. Retrieved April 10, 2009.2004 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees
". ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. October 28–31, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2009. Around this time, he felt that there was a lack of short fiction available in the literary fantasy genre and to cater to this, he launched ''

'' in 2005, at the World Fantasy Convention in Wisconsin.Foster, Eugie. , '' The Fix'', TTA Press, April 7, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2010. 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''.About us: Staff
'' Clarkesworld Magazine'', Wyrm Publishing. Retrieved September 7, 2008. That same year, he won the World Fantasy Award in the Special Award: Professional2006 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees
" ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. November 2–5, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2008. category for editing Prime Books. In 2009, his work for ''Clarkesworld'' gained recognition with

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2009 Hugo Awards
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s'', World Science Fiction Society ( WSFS). August 6–10, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009. and World Fantasy Award nominations.2009 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees
". ''World Fantasy Awards'', WFC. Oct. 29–Nov. 1, 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009. In 2010 and 2011, those efforts were rewarded with back-to-back

. Wallace and the rest of the ''Clarkesworld'' team also received World Fantasy Award nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2014. In 2011 he served as a World Fantasy Awards judge and in the same year he launched the World SF Travel Fund with

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. In 2013 ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' and its staff won the Hugo Award a third time,
Locus Magazine website. and in 2014 the magazine won its first World Fantasy Award. Other genre efforts Wallace has been involved with include the relaunch and management of WSFA Press; co-founding the Shirley Jackson Awards; and managing the SFWA Book Depot at the Nebula Awards conference. He lives in Germantown, Maryland with his wife, Jennifer, and their two children.About us: Staff
'' The Dark Magazine'', Prime Books. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

Prime Books

Prime Books, founded by Wallace in 2001, is an American independent publishing house. It publishes in a mix of literary and commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and previously published two magazines: ''

'' and '' Lightspeed Magazine'' (both sold November 2011). Its authors and editors include: * John Joseph Adams * KJ Bishop *

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* Theodora Goss * Rich Horton * Nick Mamatas * Sarah Monette * Richard Parks *

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* Tim Pratt * Ekaterina Sedia * Catherynne M. Valente *

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 Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk'' (2015) *''The Mammoth Book of Kaiju'' (2016)

The Realms/Clarkesworld series

*''Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine'' (2008), with Neil Clarke and Nick Mamatas *''Realms: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine'' (2010), with Neil Clarke and Nick Mamatas *''Clarkesworld: Year Three'' (2013), with Neil Clarke and Nick Mamatas *''Clarkesworld: Year Four'' (2013), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Five'' (2013), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Six'' (2014), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Seven'' (2015), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Eight'' (2016), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume One'' (2018), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume Two'' (2018), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Ten, Volume One'' (2019), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Ten, Volume Two'' (2019), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume One'' (2019), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume Two'' (2019), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Twelve, Volume One'' (2021), with Neil Clarke *''Clarkesworld: Year Twelve, Volume Two'' (2021), with Neil Clarke

Other anthologies

*''Bandersnatch'' (2007), with Paul Tremblay *''Best New Fantasy'' (2006) *''Fantasy'' (2007), with Paul Tremblay *''Fantasy Annual 3'' (1999), with Philip J. Harbottle *''Fantasy Annual 4'' (2000), with Philip J. Harbottle *''Fantasy Annual 5'' (2003), with Philip J. Harbottle *''Horror: The Best of the Year'' (2006), with John Betancourt *''Japanese Dreams'' (2009) *''People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy'' (2011), with Rachel Swirsky *''Phantom'' (2009), with Paul Tremblay *''Robots: Recent A.I.'' (2012), with Rich Horton *''Strange Pleasures'' (2006) *''War & Space: Recent Combat'' (2012), with Rich Horton *''Weird Tales: The Twenty-First Century'' (2007), with Stephen H. Segal

Other works

*''Eric Frank Russell: Our Sentinel in Space : A Working Bibliography: 3rd Revised Edition'' (1999), with Phil Stephensen-Payne *''The Tall Adventurer: The Works of E.C. Tubb'' (1997), with Philip J. Harbottle *''The SFWA Bulletin Index, 1965-2017'' (2018), with Michael Capobianco and Erin M. Hartshorn *''The Graphic Novels / Manga / Comic Strips / Comics Master List, Grades K through 5'' (2019-), with Jennifer Wallace
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Magazines edited

*'' Il Buio'' (Italian edition of ''The Dark''), with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lorenzo Crescentini (September 2018 – 2019); 7 issues, along with an omnibus, ''Il Buio, Anno 1'' (2019) *'' Clarkesworld Magazine'', with Nick Mamatas (October 2006-July 2008); with Neil Clarke (August 2008-current); 195 issues *''The Dark Magazine'', with Jack Fisher (October 2013-April 2016), 11 issues; solely (May 2016-December 2016), 8 issues; with Silvia Moreno-Garcia (January 2017-December 2020), 48 issues; solely (January 2021-June 2022), 18 issues; with Clara Madrigano, (July 2022-current), 91 issues *''

'' (2005); with Paul Tremblay (2006-2007); with Cat Rambo (2007-2011); 47 issues *''Podcastle'' (November 2009), guest editor; 1 issue *''Thaumatrope'' (August 2009), guest editor; 1 issue *''Underworlds: The Magazine of Noir and Dark Suspense'' (2004); 1 issue

Journals edited

*''Fantasy Annual, ''with Philip J. Harbottle (1997-1998), 2 volumes *''Jabberwocky'' (2006-2007), 3 issues; with Erzebet YellowBoy (2009-2011), 6 issues

Essays and articles

*
Publishing in the Future: The Potential and Reality of POD
in '' Locus'', March 10, 2004

References

External links

Prime Books

Sean Wallace's blog
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