Prime Books is pleased to announce the sale and transfer of ownership of their acclaimed online magazines Lightspeed and Fantasy to John Joseph Adams. Adams, the current editor of both magazines, will officially assume the role of publisher starting with the January 2012 issues.

“With the continuing expansion and success of Prime Books, my attention and time is increasingly consumed by book publishing,” publisher Sean Wallace said. “With John already doing a terrific job as editor, it simply made sense for him to take over as publisher as well. We’re really thrilled that this has worked out for both John and Prime.”

New publisher John Joseph Adams says he is delighted at the prospect of taking over the magazines and looks forward to the challenges ahead. “It’s an exciting time to be involved in publishing,” he said. “Models are changing and so is the readership, and online magazines have a better shot at sustainability than ever have before. I believe the possibilities for growth are tremendous, and I look forward to staying in the vanguard of this new frontier.”

Fantasy Magazine was established in 2005, and has been edited by Sean Wallace, Paul Tremblay, and Cat Rambo, with Adams taking over as sole editor earlier this year. Lightspeed—published by Wallace and edited by Adams—debuted in June 2010 and was a 2011 Hugo Award nominee. Numerous stories originally published in Lightspeed and Fantasy have been reprinted in best-of-the-year anthologies, and Lightspeed and Fantasy stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and others. Lightspeed’s first year of fiction has just been published by Prime Books in the print anthology Lightspeed: Year One.

About John Joseph Adams

In addition to his duties with Lightspeed and Fantasy, John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies including Wastelands, The Living Dead, Brave New Worlds, and The Way of the Wizard. In 2011, he was nominated for two Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards.

About Prime Books

Established in 2001 and published by Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books, is an independent publishing house specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with national distribution by Diamond Book Distributors.

For More information Contact:
John Joseph Adams, john@lightspeedmagazine.com
Sean Wallace, prime@prime-books.com

A bit late to talk about Halloween now, but this interview with me on AdPhantom was actually aired before the holiday. Ryan and John love Halloween and we had a lot of fun chatting. I trust that they cut out the less than stellar stuff and left us all three looking brilliant! (I can’t bear to listen to it myself. Never could stand the sound of my voice!)

• We now have The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth available. (E-book to soon follow.)
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• New page: A Song Called Youth Trilogy (omnibus of three novels Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona) by John Shirley
  

You can read the full Locus Review on the Mayan December main book page, but here are the highlights:

Switching between perspectives that include Alice’s educated skepticism, Nixie’s attention to details, and some early Mayans’ very different notions of their world, Mayan December achieves the unlikely feat of making a novel about time travelers at a crucial (shared) moment not just vivid but convincing. It never loses all connection with sanity or hope, despite threats ranging from the possibility of wholesale collapse for two great civilizations to more specific elements like Mayan religious rites of human sacrifice…Cooper handles one further complication, an international conference that brings world leaders to the Yucatan, through a deft interplay of scenes in the two eras. How is an archaeological tour for VIPs like a ritual dance for one’s own fetish beast? Mayan December provides some provocative answers.

Congratulations to Genevieve Valentine! Her novel, MECHANIQUE: A TALE OF THE CIRCUS TRESAULTI has been nominated as Best Fantasy of 2011 in the Reviewers Choice Awards from RT Book Review Magazine.

Other nominees include: Wayfinder by C.E. Murphy (Del Rey), The Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley (Orbit), Cast In Ruin by Michele Sagara (Luna), Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor), and Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor).