DNA Publications

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DNA Publications was an American publishing company that existed from 1993 to 2007 and was run by the husband-and-wife team of Warren Lapine and Angela Kessler. Initially based in Massachusetts, DNA Publications relocated to Radford, Virginia.^[when?] As of 2004, it was the second-largest genre magazine publisher in the United States.^[1] Its first publication, in 1993, was the magazine Harsh Mistress, which Lapine produced in collaboration with Kevin Rogers and Tim Ballon.^{[citation needed]}

DNA Publication distributed or published Aboriginal SF, Absolute Magnitude, Artemis, Dreams of Decadence, Fantastic Stories, Mythic Delirium, The Official KISS Magazine, Science Fiction Chronicle, and The Whole Cat Journal.^{[citation needed]} It also published the book imprints Spyre Books and Wilder Publications.^{[citation needed]}

For their work on the magazines, DNA Publications was a 2000 World Fantasy Award nominee, in the "special award: professional" category.^{[citation needed]} Absolute Magnitude was a 2002 Hugo Award nominee in the semiprozine category.^{[citation needed]} Notable authors published by the DNA Publications magazines include Chris Bunch, Hal Clement, Harlan Ellison, Alan Dean Foster, and Allen Steele.^{[citation needed]} DNA Publications collapsed in early 2007.^[2] Weird Tales had been bought in 2005 by Wildside Press^[2] and Mythic Delirium,^{[clarification needed]} which parted with DNA Publications around the same time.^{[citation needed]} Wilder Publications is now part of Tir Na Nog Press.^[2]