Attention all writers with a dark side! Here’s the official call for a book I’ll be editing with Pamela Turner:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BlackWyrm Publishing is opening several positions in its spring short fiction anthology for general submissions. We offer professional rates (typically $.05/word, negotiable upon acceptance) for writers qualified to be full members of professional organizations such as the HWA, MWA, RWA, and SFWA; other stories accepted through general submissions receive a flat semi-professional rate of $25. All contributors receive copies. The collection, tentatively titled Reel Dark: Twisted Fantasies Projected on the Flickering Page, focuses on the infection of (prose-fictional or poetic) worlds by movies. We want innovative approaches: if you think endless references to films or characters stepping into or off of the screen is innovative, reconsider submitting. Although the anthology as a whole will be dark in tone, it will speak to a range of audiences interested in horror, science-fiction, fantasy, mystery/suspense, and/or romance (particularly paranormal). Stories should not exceed 3,500 words. Submissions are open now and close November 1, 2014. We intend to launch the collection at the World Horror Convention in May 2015. Submit stories in standard manuscript format via movieantho@blackwyrm.com. Direct questions about the focus, rates, etc. to Editor-in-Chief L. Andrew Cooper via landrewcooper@blackwyrm.com. Submissions sent directly to the editor will be deleted unread. Authors accepted or invited to submit may join the group at www.blackwyrm.com/movieantho for more information.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, Reel Dark: Twisted Fantasies Projected on the Flickering Page
By Andrew
By Andrew
L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. He owns and serves as publisher and primary editor for fiction imprint Horrific Scribblings, which, among other things, publishes Horrific Scribes, a web archive of dark fiction (and some poetry). His works include novels and novellas The Skinner Effect, Father Is Pleased, The Middle Reaches (a series), Alex’s Escape, Noir Falling, Records of the Hightower Massacre [with Maeva Wunn], Crazy Time, Burning the Middle Ground, and Descending Lines; short story collections Stains of Atrocity, Peritoneum, and Leaping at Thorns; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Dario Argento and Gothic Realities; co-edited fiction anthologies Reel Dark and Imagination Reimagined; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written 35 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Princeton and Harvard, he used his Ph.D. to teach about favorite topics from coast to coast in the United States. He now focuses on writing and lives with his husband and cat in North Hollywood, California.
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I have submitted my short story A Story of the London Fog. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
I have submitted my short, EMPLOY, a kind of prequel to a “chain” of events that took place in Texas a great many years ago.
Enjoy and thank you.
Are we talking about Movie monster tropes infecting the real world, or literally something from the silver screen tearing its way into the real world to suck the marrow from the bones of virgins?
I sent an inquiry but decided to take my chances and submit my story about a cat. The title is The Cat and hope you enjoy it. Thanks for inviting me to participate.