I'm still reading for the sequel to Backstage Passes. Backstage Passes is a bit of a who's who of cool fiction, with work from Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins, John Shirley, Will Judy, Shariann Lewitt, Cecilia Tan, Andrew Greenberg, William Spencer-Hale, Althea Morin, Sèphera Girón, Thomas S. Roche, and more. I'd like to have a similarly talented rogue's gallery of contributors in the forthcoming volume. Please feel free to pass this invitation to submit to all your brilliant friends and re-post to market reports.
Short version of what I'm looking for is: well-crafted fiction or memoir, cool erotica with music and/or music culture as a central theme, $50 first run + reprint rights, $25 reprints. More formal version below.
Call for Submissions: All Access Pass
Backstage Passes editor Amelia G is reading for a sequel to her anthology of rock and roll erotica, called All Access Pass. Below are general fiction guidelines for Blue Blood fiction projects. For this book in specific, music must play a central role in the story. Events could take place at a punk club or an outdoor festival, characters may be musicians, music may just really speak to a particular character, but it needs to be important. Stories ranging from balls-out memoir or entirely fantastical vampire sex are all fine, within the appropriate theme and quality standards.
When submitting electronically, please make the subject of your email ALL ACCESS PASS SUBMISSION.
Before sending anything over, please ask yourself if your work passes the Blue Blood litmus test: Is it intelligent? Is it sexy? Is it edgy/counterculture? Is it cool? Email electronic submissions to submit@blueblood.net For submissions of fiction or nonfiction text, please have your writing in a Word document with a .doc suffix (not .docx), RTF, TXT, InDesign, or Open Office format. It is preferred if you include an author bio or link to your website or online profiles.
The All Access Pass anthology is seeking erotic stories with a counterculture feel -- Gothic, industrial, techno, rave, punk, metal, dyke, mystery, gangster, hard-boiled, science fiction, cyberpunk, steampunk, vampire, werewolf, medieval etc. At the moment, our needs are for stories primarily from a male or female heterosexual viewpoint, lesbian viewpoint, or female bisexual viewpoint. Often, we can also place male homosexual and gender bender stories in anthologies. We look for work between 2,000 and 7,500 words. Most accepted fiction is shorter than 4,000 words. Death and horror elements are acceptable so long as they do not prevent the piece from being sex-positive. Characters may die but not as part of the sexuality. Kinky is great -- leathersex, bondage, vampirism etc. are all fine. Negative attitudes about sexuality are not fine. All sex must be consensual and arousing. PLEASE DO NOT SEND US STORIES PROMOTING NAZIS, RAPE, INCEST, OR THE SEXUALIZATION OF MURDER. NO SNUFF, RACISM, OR HOMOPHOBIA. If you can write genuinely arousing fiction which still works as a story, do contact us. Payment is net 60 on on-sale date and we generally purchase first worldwide rights (exclusive from acceptance to one year after publication) along with nonexclusive reprint rights.
Critical Acclaim for Backstage Passes
“extremely enjoyably depraved and romantic” --AltPorn.net
"sizzling stories by some of the biggest horror/goth/erotica writers in the genre . . . The authors in this collection are amazing story-tellers and the top of their genres . . . The stories have diverse themes but are all woven together by the lustful threads of a rock n’ roll subculture featuring musicians, rock stars, groupies, nefarious lovers, occultists and blood-letters . . . Backstage Passes is a superb collection of edgy dark erotica" --Domina Doll
"spell binding literature" --Industrial Nation
"managing to capture the essence of what it was like to be young and punk, young and goth, or young and a vampire" --Gram Ponante
"If you like your Rock and Roll the way it was meant to be, this is a reading must." --Redemption
"the worlds of fetish, rock and roll, and horror collide to very erotic effect" --Marquis
"If the erotica you’ve read lately seems a little too safe, this is the anthology for you." --Erotica Readers & Writers Association
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Tweets
- 13:38 What scared you first? @GothicNet News: Gothic.net Panel of Experts: First Fright www.gothic.net/first-fright/ I'm an expert ;-p #
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tweets
- 21:14 Digerati, get yer @mashable username while the gettin' is good mashable.com/follow/people/ameliag/ #
Monday, May 09, 2011
Tweets
- 17:15 @Very_Wiley @Mugs It is effing hard to be the big cusser in this room. ;-p #
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Tweets
- 18:29 Rock n Roll fiction & memoir writers, come on down! ameliag.com/2011/04/blue-blood-all-access-pass-call-for-submissions-paying-market #
- 18:58 Fuck me. Cursebird says I only swear like a "Jersey Girl" cursebird.com/AmeliaG Must try harder to achieve in sweariness. Cuss it! #
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Bloody Tattooed Halloween Jen Vixen (PICS)
Forrest Black and I always enjoy shooting gooey sets. I am always a huge fan of making a giant mess. I got vanilla-flavored for this, but Halloween Jen Vixen is one of the few people who doesn't like the taste of vanilla. It was fun anyway and she looks totally hot. This is her 14th Blue Blood VIP appearance. Whole series, of course, in the Blue Blood VIP.
Tweets
- 15:30 @AltPornNet Thank you! #
- 18:39 Going to this @GothicNet Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age www.gothic.net/pop-sequentialism-comic-art-of-the-modern-age/ #
- 19:04 @salliegoetsch Thanks :-) #
Friday, May 06, 2011
Tweets
- 14:17 Who thinks Libertarians are homophobic religious zenophobes? WTF is wrong w/ @pewresearch @bi_politics read.bi/kxSb1c #
- 14:23 I always vote, believe in hard work & hate bigots, so according to @pewresearch @bi_politics I'm too unusual to deserve a candidate. #
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Tweets
- 11:36 @MeghanMayhem Ah, thank you for the explanation! Still feeling a lil nostalgia for nerdville being a more offbeat thang somehow. #
- 11:39 @MeghanMayhem Ha, ha, I realize I also had the date wrong, so I never would have figured it out. No Twitter before coffee. #
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Tweets
- 10:50 I still feel like this: ameliag.com/2011/05/cartoons-are-better-than-breaking-into-song/ Blarg. Going to make popovers. #
- 11:46 @chickgonebad whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #
- 15:17 Something surreal about organizing office & finding forgotten scanners & production pitches & selections of negs. My eyes ache. #
- 06:34 Since when is May 3 #starwarsday ? Is this annual? I feel weird that Star Wars used to be what my freak anti-mundane friends & I liked. #
Monday, May 02, 2011
Tweets
- 11:52 @nutella14 Skeet shooting! Wanna come #
- 11:57 For my professional creatives cohorts: Do you like Flash portfolios or HTML with jquery or straight HTML or CMS like WordPress or combo? #
- 14:52 @RaygunRobyn @salliegoetsch @JayAllanPhoto @funkatron @soulcookie @ForrestBlack So my friends are not starting the Global Flash Fan Club... #
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