SFWA released a statement today announcing the term of probation for Night Shade Books has been lifted. The publisher was placed on probation as a qualifying market for the writers’ organization in July 2010, following “concerns about contractual issues with their authors.” Night Shade has since met a series of benchmarks set up by SFWA to “return [...]

Robert Silverberg is now a member of the Amazing Stories Project editorial advisory board, which plans to revive Amazing Stories magazine in 2012. He joins Barry Malzberg, Joe Wrzos, Patrick Price, and Ted White on the board. For more, see the Amazing Stories website.

SF/F line Angry Robot announced plans to launch a sister imprint for YA fiction called Strange Chemistry. Starting in September 2012, the imprint will release five titles in its first year, then move to a one-book-per-month schedule. Like Angry Robot, Strange Chemistry will simultaneously publish in the US and the UK, and in paperback and e-book [...]

John Joseph Adams, editor of Fantasy and Lightspeed, has purchased both magazines from Prime books. Adams will become the official publisher in January 2012. He took over as editor for Fantasy magazine earlier this year, and has edited Lightspeed since its June 2010 debut. Fantasy magazine was established in 2005, and has been nominated for the [...]

For the third time in nearly three years, Realms of Fantasy has announced that it will cease publication. The current owners, William and Kim Gilchrist of Damnation Books LLC, have announced the October 2011 issue will be the last. The Gilchrists explained in a statement that the magazine has been losing money, and that they will [...]

Audible has launched a new curated imprint, Neil Gaiman Presents, as part of their ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) platform, which helps rightsholders find narrators and producers to create audiobooks. Gaiman says, “I’ve picked books I loved and wanted more people to find, and worked as closely as I could with each author to find just [...]

Beginning in January 2012, Berkley/NAL, the mass-market division of Penguin, will launch a new e-book imprint called InterMix. Focusing on genres common among mass-market titles, such as women’s fiction, romance, mystery/ thrill, and science fiction, InterMix plans to release a mix of titles from new authors and reprints. All InterMix titles will be given new [...]

Following in the footsteps of Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million announced they will no longer sell print versions of the 100 graphic novel titles that DC plans to release exclusively in digital form on the new Amazon Kindle Fire next month. Books-A-Million president Terry Finley said, “We will not promote titles in our stores… if publishers [...]

Amazon.com’s publishing division has announced a new SF/fantasy/horror imprint, 47North. The imprint has announced their first 15 titles, to be released in late 2011 and early 2012. Upcoming books include Against the Light by Dave Duncan (January 2012); The Mongoliad: Book One by Neal Stephenson & Greg Bear (April 2012); and Further: Beyond the Threshold by Chris Roberson (May 2012). Titles [...]

The beta version of the new online incarnation of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has launched. The editors say, “We think we’re about 3/4 of the way through compiling the Encyclopedia. Our current 3.2m wordcount will probably expand to 4.2m by the time we’re done at the end of 2012. So there will be some [...]