Call for Submissions

ROTHCO Press is accepting proposals for essays for an edited volume tentatively titled Paranormal Pop: Religion, Pop Culture, and the Supernatural, to be published in Summer 2015. Academic writers and independent scholars are invited to submit proposals spanning the wide range of topics on pop culture and the paranormal, and their connection to religion, including reflections on the full panoply of extraordinary beings (e.g. vampires, zombies, demons, ghosts, mutants, cyborgs, cryptoids, etc.) and extraordinary phenomena (e.g. psychic abilities, channeling, spontaneous combustion, magic, necromancy, etc.); as well as theoretical and/or historical reflections on supernaturalism, pop culture and theology.

Proposals should describe briefly (250 words or less) the intended content and argument of the essay, which in its final format should run between 20 to 25 pages (5,000 to 6,250 words).  In addition to the proposal please include a short biographical statement as well as contact information. Please see Submission Guidelines below.

ROTHCO Press is a boutique press specializing in a wide range of genres including: nonfiction, fiction, biography, pop culture, pets, adventure/travel, supernatural, horror, mystery, true crime, cookbooks, academic books and more. Located in Hollywood, California, the publisher is an affiliate of Co-Conspiracy Entertainment, a film and television production company.

Submission Guidelines

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  October 31, 2014.

The guidelines below are for informational purposes only.

As outlined above ROTHCO Press is accepting proposals for essays for its Religion, Pop Culture and the Supernatural project. If your proposal is chosen, we will contact you. Rule Number One is to provide us with a number you can be reached at during business hours along with a working email address.

Submissions may only be made by the author of the work or someone with legal standing to make the submission on the author’s behalf. If you are neither, please do not contact us.

General Guidelines

• We accept email submissions. Unless your submission is in digital form we will not be able to review it.
• Submissions must be in PDF format. We will not open other documents.
• It may take up to 90 days to adequately review your proposal. Contacting us about its status will only slow down the process.

What to Include in Your Proposal:

• Include a brief description, a PDF of your proposal, a short author biography, a working email that you check regularly and a phone number where you can be reached during business hours.
• If your proposal is a simultaneous submission, please indicate this in your email to us.

Where to Send Your Proposal:

Please send submissions to: ParanormalPop@ROTHCOpress.com

EDITORS: Darryl Caterine is a professor of Religious Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. His research interests focus on supernaturalism in popular culture, both in the United States and parts of Latin America. His book Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America (Praeger, 2011) is an ethnographic travelogue of various paranormal gatherings in the U.S., focused on Spiritualism, ufology, and dowsing. He has contributed articles on popular supernaturalism to Nova Religio, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Paranthropology.

John W. Morehead is a researcher, writer, and editor on horror, science fiction, fantasy, the paranormal, and other aspects of the fantastic in pop culture. He writes for his blog TheoFantastique.com and Cinefantastique Online, is the co-editor and contributor to The Undead and Theology (Wipf & Stock, 2012), co-editor of Joss Whedon and Religion (McFarland, 2013), and he sits on the editorial board for GOLEM: The Journal of Religion and Monsters.