NOW ACCEPTING: Art Submissions for “Nightmarriage” eBook

As if you artists already don’t already make zilch for all your hard work, I am now offering you another opportunity to create something out of nothing for nothing.

Starting today, I am accepting art submissions for my “Nightmarriage” eBook. If you’re wondering what that means, it’s pretty easy to explain:

Throughout my short career as a blogger (in which I likewise make zilch), I have written about my misadventures with my lovely wife, Rebekah Christine. If you click on the “Nightmarriage” key word in the list below this entry, you will be guided to a full listing of every post belonging to this series. Several entries from the “Preggersville” series are also up for consideration for inclusion in this volume. More information about this eBook is also available here.

I will be making this eBook available for free to the world, hopefully by June or thereabouts. Like you artists, then, I will be making zilch on this venture. But there is something in it for both of us: I will be promoting the thunder out of this eBook to my nearly 5,000 Twitter followers, my almost 1,000 Facebook friends, and my blog readers, which continue to grow in number by the day (if I am to believe Google Analytics). This means the public is exposed to your work and mine alike whenever anyone downloads the book. I will be making it available wherever I can on the Web.

Here is How You Can Participate:

Send me an email at [email protected], or a tweet @Saint_Upid and tell me which essay you would like to illustrate (again, click the “Nightmarriage” or “Preggersville” key words at the bottom of this entry to view a listing of all candidates for consideration in this volume). Along with this, please send me a link to your work. If I like what I see, I will agree to let you illustrate the piece. If I do not, I will say something nice like, “Your work is great, but it’s just not what I’m looking for at this time.” If I say that, please try not to take it personally.

If I tell you to proceed, here is what you can expect in the book: Your art, a link to your work, your contact info, and (if you like) a description of the kinds of projects you are hoping to pursue, in the event that an interested party wants to commission you to create art for them.

Your art should relate directly to the essay you are illustrating, but it need not be 100% literal in its interpretation. You are encouraged to create your own visual representation and/or interpretation of anything in the essay. Make it uniquely yours, but use your visual voice to amplify my written voice.

Nothing obscene, please.

Let the art-making commence, folks.

This eBook is open to submissions until March 31, 2012, although if I get enough submissions early enough, I will shut it down before then. If no one applies, I can extend the date or delete this post and pretend it never happened. Good luck!

“Chad Thomas Johnston is an author, sonuva’ preacha’ man, PhD-dropout, singer/songwriter, music producer/sonic reducer, daydreaming doodler, gorilla/guerilla publicist, cinemaddict, & pop-culture obsessive. He is represented by Seattle, WA-based literary agent Jenée Arthur, who is currently shopping his debut manuscript to major publishing houses.

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