Blue Blood Contact Us Form
All swag, contracts, review materials, requests for interviews, invitations to conventions, contest giveaways, etc. can be sent
to:
Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA
The contact form at the bottom of this page is the most efficient way to get in touch with the right person at Blue Blood via
email.
Advertising
Please select
Advertising from the drop-down in the contact menu for ad queries. If you are interested in advertising,
Blue Blood is represented by different agencies for different properties and types of advertisements. Prospective advertisers
please list what you are interested in advertising. The primary ad spots Blue Blood properties offer are the 728x90
leaderboard banner, the 160x600 tower banner, the 300x250 box, the traditional 468x60 banner, and the 117x30 microbutton.
Smaller ad spots have lower pricing, but generally do not accept rich media and have below-the-fold placement. For larger ad
spots' higher CPMs, advertisers receive premium placements and can utilize the full gamut of rich media advertising creatives
including Flash, Eyeblaster, Unicast, Eyewonder, Atlas, Rovion, Interpolls, and Pointroll-enabled designs. For serious high
roller advertisers, we even offer media sponsorship event partner promotion, photoshoot product placements, video product
placements, countdown clocks, newsletter blasts, and homepage reskins. Please note that product placement is only available
for stuff someone on the creative team here actually likes.
Writers Guidelines
Blue Blood is known for extremely high quality writing and having been a pioneer in personal voice journalism. A small
sampling of the writers Blue Blood has published includes Clint Catalyst, Thomas S. Roche, John Shirley, Shariann Lewitt,
Nancy A. Collins, Poppy Z. Brite, and of course Amelia G and Forrest Black. Blue Blood always has writing opportunities
for experienced writers with excellent skills and lively personal styles. BlueBlood.net specifically publishes entertainment
pieces for an intelligent, sophisticated, mature but not necessarily adult audience. Subject of particular interest include music,
culture, glam, gothic, gothindustrial, horror, science fiction, rpgs, burlesque, performance art, deathrock, psychobilly, punk,
street fashion, fetish fashion, noir, clublife, scene reports, events, conventions, feminism, gender studies, media criticism,
social anthropology, and related pop culture topics. Writers who successfully work with BlueBlood.net may also be invited to
participate in content packaging projects, including a variety of top quality and cutting edge web sites, magazines, and
anthologies. Although it is helpful if prospective writers provide general bio information including information on past
experience and areas of expertise, the best way to get published by Blue Blood is to submit either a completed piece or a
specific pitch for a specific feature you would like to write. News features must include a minimum of one photo or graphic,
although the photo or illustration may be supplied by the subject of the article e.g. a record label providing a promo photo of
a band. It may be possible for Blue Blood to pair writers we have worked with in the past with photographers to cover events
and fashion. Please select
Writer Queries from the drop-down in the contact menu for writing submissions and
queries.
Getting Featured on BlueBlood.net
If you are promoting a movie, an event, a club night, a band, a clothing line, a book, a magazine, a web site, or seeking other
editorial press coverage from Blue Blood, please snail mail materials to the mailing address up or email initial contact via the
form below. As we make every effort to keep our editorial visually interesting, it is always helpful if your movie, event, band
etc. has available galleries of promo photos, suitable for our Galleries section. Music videos and movie trailers and clips,
suitable for our Videos section are also helpful is facilitating us giving you coverage. Clothing designers, if you snail mail
clothing for possible product placement or editorial consideration, please include an itemized list in the box of what you
shipped, whether you need it returned, and how much it should be insured for if it is making a return trip back to you.
Publicists and other seeking press coverage from Blue Blood, please select
Editorial from the drop-down in the
contact menu.
Press
Do you want to write an article about Blue Blood, or one of Blue Blood's many projects, Amelia G, Forrest Black, or another
member of Blue Blood's creative team? Yay! We love the press and would be pleased to do whatever would help you help us.
Feel free to call on us if you just need a good sound bite or quote on gothic, punk, tattooed, pierced, artistic, envelope-
pushing hotness, inclusive feminism, subculture, fandom or related topics. We can put together print quality photography or
whatever would fulfill your image needs to give Blue Blood press coverage. If you are looking for someone to pretend they
are a real life supernatural vampire or you are looking for free photos to dress up something unrelated to Blue Blood, please
move along. Blue Blood was founded in 1992 and we've heard all of those pitches; we deeply appreciate genuine press
coverage and real journalism, but we just, ya know, don't like to do stupid things. A small sampling of magazines Blue Blood
has received extended interview and feature press coverage in includes Marquis, Penthouse Variations, Gothic Beauty, VF
Magazine, Draculina and Lollipop. Blue Blood'sAmelia G and Forrest Black have been interviewed and profiled on MTV,
HBO, and FOX. Blue Blood's Amelia G and Forrest Black have appeared on many radio shows including Playboy's Night
Calls, Reality Check, and Diana Cage's OutQ show. A small sampling of multitude of web sites Blue Blood has been featured
on includes Eros Zine, Vanishing Tattoo, Tiny Nibbles, AltPorn.net, Gothic.net, Fleshbot, SexyFandom, ILovetheDevil, and
countless others. Television producers, magazine writers, bloggers, documentary filmmakers, newspaper editors, radio hosts,
web shows, and other members of the fourth estate, please select
Offers of Press Coverage from the drop-down in the
contact menu.
Appearance Requests
If you are interested in having Blue Blood participate in your event in person, there are a few paths you can choose. Some
people are hoping Blue Blood could send photographers to set up a booth at their event and do companion PR via articles and
newsletter blasts or banner exposures. Some people would like Amelia G or Forrest Black to speak on a panel on a particular
area of expertise. Some people would just like a couple of Blue Blood hotties to come be booth babes at a convention. Please
choose from the contact form drop-down depending on a combination of what you would like to get from Blue Blood and
what you would like to give Blue Blood. If you would like various Blue Blood personnel to show up to your event because
your event is newsworthy, and what you would like to offer is guest list or a place to set up to shoot photos, and the rest is up
to us, then please select
Editorial from the drop-down in the contact menu. If you would like Amelia G or Forrest
Black to speak on a panel or give a slideshow or workshop talk or related performance, please select
Offers of Press
Coverage from the drop-down in the contact menu and indicate what you will be offering i.e. travel expenses, appearance
fee, exhibit space, truly fabulous exposure, etc. If you would like various Blue Blood personnel to show up to your event to
make it newsworthy, to perform on stage at your event, or to work your booth, please select
Advertising from the
drop-down in the contact menu and list info on what your budget for this is. If you would like a full media sponsorship,
complete with appearance at your event, photography or video, and coverage before and after it, please select
Advertising from the drop-down in the contact menu and let us know either your budget for this or what cross-
promotion you would like to barter.
Photographer Guidelines
The BlueBlood.net areas most open to freelance photography submissions are nightlife galleries and fashion editorial. Blue
Blood looks for work which presents the subjects in a flattering light. If you think punks are ugly and your work is about
presenting the horrors of failure to fit in or something, this is not the venue for you. BlueBlood.net is known for providing its
audience with interesting and informative journalism, so all photo galleries must have accompanying articles to explain the
importance and appeal of the photographic subject matter. Photo features must generally have a minimum of 385 words
accompanying text. An example of a good accompanying article would be an interview with a clothing designer to
accompany a photo gallery depicting the designer's fashions. Blue Blood seeks to publish photos which are actually about
something. If all a photo has to say is that it is a photo and someone shot it, then it will not be of interest. A small sampling of
photographers Blue Blood has published includes Chad Michael Ward, Gunter Blum, Carlos Batts, Larry Bradby, Justice
Howard, Lori Mann, Kelly Lind, Ashley Fontenot, Roman Sluka, and of course Amelia G and Forrest Black. It may be
possible for Blue Blood to pair photographers we have worked with in the past with writers to cover events and fashion.
Please note that BlueBlood.net photo galleries may not contain any nudity, not even topless. If you are interested in shooting
erotica / pin-up for sister site
BlueBlood.com, however, you may also use the form
below to inquire with information on your experience and interests. Please select
Photographer Queries from the
drop-down in the contact menu for photography submissions and queries.
Modeling
If you are interested in appearing on BlueBlood.net, you can join the forums for free and post photographs you already have
of yourself on the boards for comment and discussion. If you wish to appear in official editorial galleries, you will want to
participate in a shoot which is actually about something i.e. model a clothing line, show up fabulous to a nightclub being
featured, be a musician or performance artist or have something to say in an interview, that sort of thing. If you are interested
in shooting erotica / pin-up for sister site
BlueBlood.com, however, you may also use
the form below to inquire with information on your experience and interests. Please select
Model Queries from the
drop-down in the contact menu for photography submissions and queries.
Jobs
In addition to those who directly produce the great writing and photography on Blue Blood sites, publishing is powered by
quality graphic designers, coders, party promoters, and people who are just plain organized. All full-time positions at Blue
Blood are currently filled, but we frequently work with talented independent people on a contract basis. At the moment, we
are especially interested in top quality Flash designers, with major media experience, for special projects. There is regular
need for programmers for short term projects. Particularly in the summertime, there are often one-off gigs available for
illustrators. If you think something you do might be helpful for Blue Blood, you are always welcome to drop us a line with
your resume, what you are interested in doing, and info on dough you usually receive for doing what you do. Please select
Jobs from the drop-down in the contact menu for photography submissions and queries.
