Outreach
Who to reach, and why
Start with advocacy and screening programs. Researchers and comp authors once the book can be said in two sentences. Agents last.
Anchor researchers
Coltan Scrivner
To contactClosest comp author; interview or blurb request. Site lists direct contact (coltanscrivner.com).
Mathias Clasen
To contactAcademic authority on recreational fear; may point to unpublished data or students studying ND audiences.
Genre theory
Kendall R. Phillips
To contactLiving author of a comparable horror-reflects-culture book; realistic academic-to-writer email.
Science writers
Nina Nesseth
To contactTrade-nonfiction translator; model for tone and pitching a science-plus-narrative book.
Margee Kerr
To contactParticipatory first-person science writing; process correspondence about structuring the book.
Lived-experience voices
John Wiswell
To contactNebula-winning autistic horror/fantasy author; publicly discusses disability and genre writing.
Evolution of Horror essay author
To contactAlready writing the thesis in shorter form — interview or excerpt permission.
Bloody Disgusting autism/horror author
To contactDirect essayist on autism within horror; quote or interview.
Fangoria 2024 autism-in-horror author
To contactRecent trade-press piece on the same intersection.
Emerging scholars
E. J. Lyon (Southampton thesis)
To contactDoctoral thesis on autism and gothic horror cinema, 1931–1967.
PCA Horror in Text, Media, and Culture area
To contactEmerging scholars; conference panel testing ground.
NEPCA Monsters & the Monstrous area
To contactAnnual CFP; source of emerging scholars to contact.
Advocacy organizations
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
To contactRecruit interview/survey participants; credibility with lived-experience networks.
media@autisticadvocacy.org
CHADD
To contactADHD advocacy; participant recruitment.
ADDA
To contactAdult ADHD advocacy; interview-request page.
Accessible screening
BFI Southbank accessibility team
To contactMost developed relaxed-screening program; programmers and attendees as evidence and interviews.
AMC Sensory Friendly Films / U.S. arthouses
To contactU.S. equivalents of BFI relaxed screenings.
Festivals / community
Popcorn Frights
To contactPanel pitch: Horror as Regulation.
Panic Fest
To contactPanel pitch to horror-fan audience before launch.
Etheria Film Night
To contactFestival programming / press contact.
Beyond Fest
To contactFestival programming / press contact.
Fantasia
To contactFestival programming / press contact.
Directors (stretch)
Guillermo del Toro
To contactStretch-goal quote via publicist/studio. Approach last.
David Cronenberg
To contactStretch-goal quote. Approach last.
M. Night Shyamalan
To contactStretch-goal quote. Approach last.
Publishing / agents
Nonfiction agents (psychology / pop culture)
To contactQuery only after proposal + 2–3 sample chapters. Cross-check who sold Scrivner, Clasen, Nesseth, Kerr.