Distribution
Prime’s titles are distributed by Diamond Book Distributors.
Staff
Sean Wallace is the founder, publisher, and managing editor of Prime Books, which won a World Fantasy Award in 2006. In the past he has also co-edited Fantasy Magazine, and the two-time Hugo Award winning and two-time World Fantasy nominated Clarkesworld Magazine. Wallace has edited anthologies Best New Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror: The Best of the Year, Japanese Dreams, and Jabberwocky; he co-edited Bandersnatch, Fantasy Annual, People of the Book, Phantom, and Weird Tales: The 21st Century. He lives in Rockville, MD, with his wife, Jennifer, and their twin daughters, Cordelia and Natalie.
Paula Guran is Prime’s senior editor. She edited the Juno fantasy line for six years from its inception in small press imprint through its incarnation as an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books. She has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award, won two Bram Stoker awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards. The list of anthologies she has edited is growing so rapidly that it would likely be outdated as quickly as listed here. Guran has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. She edited/produced for OMNI Online and Universal Studios HorrorOnline and was a consulting editor for a consulting editor for CFQ (Cinemafantastique) and Cemetery Dance. She’s also done a great deal of other various and sundry work in speculative fiction including editing magazines, agenting, publicity, teaching, publishing, and the DarkEcho newsletter. The mother of four people who can’t really be called children anymore, she lives in Akron, Ohio.
Stephen H. Segal is Prime’s senior contributing cover designer and publicity consultant. As editorial and creative director of Weird Tales from 2007 to 2010, he led a top-to-bottom revamping that won the classic fantasy magazine its first Hugo Award in 2009. He is the editor of the 2011 book Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture, and has contributed to such diverse genre institutions as Quirk Books (as an editor), Tor Books (as a cover designer), Viz Media (as a typographer), and the Interstitial Arts Foundation (as a board member). Stephen previously worked as an award-winning magazine journalist at WQED Pittsburgh; he currently lives in Philadelphia.
Neil Clarke is the owner of Wyrm Publishing, editor of the Hugo Award-winning online semiprozine, Clarkesworld Magazine, a freelance ebook designer and an educational technologist. He lives in Stirling, NJ with his wife and two children.
Molly Tanzer is Assistant to the Publisher for Prime Books.
Submissions
Prime Books is not currently open to unsolicited, unagented manuscripts. However, we do welcome submissions from agents. Please contact Paula Guran: paula@prime-books.com. We accept only emailed submissions. Do not mail submissions, they will be recycled without reading or reply.
Rights
Subsidiary rights for Prime Books are represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. If you have questions or inquiries please contact Jennifer Jackson: jjackson@maassagency.com.
Reviews
For review copies and other publicity related matters: publicity@prime-books.com.
Information
For more information about Prime Books, contact Sean Wallace: prime@prime-books.com.