Aca-Undead-Superheroes-Colleagues Essay emergency for a collection on Undead Superheroes for Bloomsbury. I need 5,000 words on an evil/undead superhero of either Black/Latinx/African/Asian heritage. If interested contact me at: [email protected]

The exciting news just keeps on coming this week... just signed a contract for Eco-futures: A Companion with the incomparable Lorna Farnell. Well-done everyone who's taking part... updates are on their way to you shortly! 😃

Oohhh….stumbled on something else while checking things out online. Exciting to see Undead Superheroes/Superhero Gothic with a page holder on the Bloomsbury website! 😃

Oohhh exciting…..just stumbled upon a place-holder for this little gem. It’s taken some time to get here but sooooooo good to see it almost out in the world! 😃

Aca-American Literature-Colleagues Something that might be of interest. A colleague of mine, Thomas Fahy, has a great series on American Literature Readings in the 21st Century at Palgrave that is looking for authors for various types of volumes. Further details in photo.

Free series editor book delivery! And this one’s a doozie…the fabulous Ray Bradbury Companion put together by the equally fabulous Kevin Wetmore! Check it out below. And if you have an idea for a Companion around Genre Fiction and Film drop me a line at: [email protected]

Aca-Serial-Killer-Colleagues Short essays (2,5-3K words) for a Companion on Serial Killers: • Cinema, psychopathy, and social commentary • Indian true crime cinema, and • Celebrity serial killers, myth-making, and cinema portrayals, Full details of the CFP in attached photo

Aca-Urban-Horror-Colleagues I need 2 abstracts for a Companion on Urban Horror - Backrooms as a symptom/product/experience of the Urban. -Satanism and the City. At this stage just a 300 word abstract is needed. If interested contact me at: [email protected]

Aca-Cryptid-Colleagues I need one more essay by end October for the Contagion & Cryptids collection on a “real world” cryptid (Mothman, Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, Slenderman etc) that also has a contagious nature to it. If interested contact me at: [email protected]

Aca-colleagues A terrific volume on Ray Bradbury has just been published in the Genre Film and Fiction Companion Series I run. If you have an idea for a Companion on a genre/subgenre, or an important director/author/creative please do contact me to discuss ([email protected])

Aca-Contagion-Colleagues I have a collection on “Contagion: Pandemics, Cryptids and Monsters!” and need essays on the following: — the contagious nature of “monstrous” conspiracy theories — the contagion (and cryptids) of urban myth Contact me at: [email protected]

Aca-Women in Film-Colleagues An exciting Companion, on “Women in Screen” needs the following: -Women in contemporary Indian cinema -Women of colour in erotic, transgressive or experimental cinemas -Women, television and audience Contact Dr McRae at: [email protected]

Aca-Neo-Victorian-Crime-Colleagues We have an emergency for an abstract on a South American perspective on Neo-Victorian Crime for a Companion on Neo-Victorian Crime. If it's of interest message me or drop me a line asap at: [email protected]

My favourite kind of book post…free editor copies of the paperback edition book post! And ain’t they pretty! (Beautiful cover art by Derek Newman-Stille 😃)