A press release from Mark Teppo of Resurrection House:

Hello long-time fans of Underland Press,

Well, the big news to impart is that Underland Press is under new management. Late last year, Victoria [Blake] approached me about acquiring Underland as part of my foray into independent publishing, and I leapt at the chance to continue the fantastic work she has done over the last five years.

[A quick recap:  “I” and “me” are Mark Teppo, and I’ve been on the other side of publishing for more than a decade now. I’ve got my name on nine books (five of which have come out in the last two years because it’s been that sort of crazy), and over the last three years, I’ve been showrunner for the Foreworld Saga, a transmedia property that’s been managed by Subutai Corporation, a company I founded with Neal Stephenson. Subutai’s focus has recently shifted to video game production, and I’ve finally embraced my long-standing love affair with the printed book. Which is how Resurrection House, my publishing company, came into existence.]

To me, Underland Press has always been about the strange in genre fiction. Not quite bloody enough for horror, not quite mundane enough for fantasy or science fiction. Too odd to be mystery. Underland is the fringe, the delightful place where all sorts of things can happen, and the fringe should be embraced, celebrated, and bravely ventured into. Having Underland Press as part of Resurrection House will allow me to publish books that stray into the shadows and unexplored places while still being a genre publisher. I’m pretty excited about the opportunity to raise strange towers upon the strong foundation laid down by Victoria.

Anyway, change is afoot, as is a deep sense of creative mischief. Come join the fun.

-mark

Mark Teppo
Founder & Publisher
Resurrection House

From the Resurrection House web site:

Underland Press was founded by Victoria Blake in 2006 as an independent publishing company based out of Portland, OR. Underland Press published nearly a dozen titles under Ms. Blake’s exceptional guidance before being acquired by Resurrection House in 2013, where it remains as a named imprint. The imprint has won the American Library Association’s Best Horror award, and its books have been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the International Horror Award.