Wilder Publications / Fantastic Books

[Jennallis]

Has anyone heard any recent news about Fantastic Books? I thought they were a POD publisher for out of print titles, but "a friend of a friend" claims that they were purchased and are now looking for submissions. Thoughts?

 

[defyalllogic]

is this them? http://www.fantasticbooksonline.com

If it is, I HOPE they haven't launched yet. they don't have page numbers (xxx pages) and their excepts are all filler text.

their contact, authors, and news pages are all blank. so, even if you want to submit to them, you can't

 

[Jennallis]

Honestly, I don't even know. I tried doing some research myself and came up with nada.

 

[CaoPaux]

Sounds like: http://fantasticbooks.wilderpublications.com/

Here's mention of its inception to reprint classic SF: http://io9.com/5137639/the-return-of-legendary-scifi-publisher-warren-lapine

And here's description of the hand-over: http://sfscope.com/2009/12/fantastic-books-hires-sfscope.html

 

[CaoPaux]

Fantastic Books is now part of Gray Rabbit Publications: http://www.fantasticbooks.biz/

http://wilderpublications.com/ hasn't been updated. Owner's personal site is more current: http://www.warrenlapine.com/

 

[CaoPaux]

Launched Fantastic Stories of the Imagination in '14: http://www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com/

ETA: Fantastic Stories closed Jan '17. (cache of announcement)

Wilder Publications site went down soon after. Owner still publishing, mostly public domain works.