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Seeking Contributions from Artists with Dark Aesthetics!

By Andrew August 23, 2023

ATTENTION AUTHORS, FILMMAKERS, AND OTHER ARTISTS!

If you work with horror, the supernatural, the surreal, or other “dark” aesthetics in prose fiction, poetry, film, or other media, I probably want to host you for a guest post or interview.

GUEST POST? I am open to suggestions, but a guest post would likely be about a distinctive angle on your work. Promote freely, but avoid mere plot summaries and plaudits. Examples: How does the work challenge its (sub)genre? What’s compelling about its inspiration? You’re a creative. Be creative!

INTERVIEW? I mean a written, asynchronous interview, not a live discussion. Send me (publishable) descriptions of the one or two work(s) you want to focus on, along with a brief bio, and I’ll send you 5-10 questions that I’ve attempted to tailor to you and your work. You write your answers, I try to make everything pretty, and I post. The goal is to promote you and to find angles of interest a little sharper than typical blurbs.

Posts should run about 1,000 words; interviews tend to go longer. I might reject a piece for poor writing or excessive length. I don’t intend to interfere with style or content, but I will edit for grammar, etc., and except in rare cases, I won’t seek author approval for my edits. R-rated language is fine, but I reserve the right to reject a piece for using hate speech and related material. Otherwise, I want to accept all I can.

I do not pay. I do not charge. This site does not sell ads or otherwise generate income. I do provide sales links; if you’re a guest, I hope you’ll provide sales links. My goal is to make connections and share a promotional space that I’ve invested in and don’t want to underuse.

If you’re interested, contact me about your interests, and we’ll go from there. I hope to hear from you!

By Andrew

L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. His current project, The Middle Reaches, is a serialized epic of weird horror and dark fantasy on Amazon Kindle Vella. His latest release, Records of the Hightower Massacre, an LGBTQ+ horror novella co-authored with Maeva Wunn, imagines a near-future dystopia where anti-queer hate runs a program to "correct" deviants. Stains of Atrocity, his newest collection of stories, goes to uncomfortable psychological and visceral extremes. His latest novel, Crazy Time, combines literary horror and dark fantasy in a contemporary quest to undo what may be a divine curse. Other published works include novels Burning the Middle Ground and Descending Lines; short story collections Leaping at Thorns and Peritoneum; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Gothic Realities and Dario Argento; co-edited fiction anthologies Imagination Reimagined and Reel Dark; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written more than 30 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Harvard and Princeton, 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 in North Hollywood, California.