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Writers' Guidelines

We pay writers cash for original articles. We also accept guest posts and donated articles in the form of original articles and reprints.

Submissions are wanted for articles on home business, freelance writing, arts and crafts tutorials, party ideas, parenting essays, and cooking stories.

Editorial calendar: 2012 Article Needs

Submit article: Get Paid To Write | Submit A Guest Post

Get interviewed: Artist Q&A Form | Musician Q&A Form

Get interviewed: Children's Author | Fiction Author | Non-Fiction Author


Response Time

We do our best to respond with at least a form letter within 8 to 12 weeks of submission.

* Please understand that no matter how reliable we like to believe technology is, it sometimes fails. If you feel there's a chance your article didn't go through the submission form, don't hesitate to drop us an email via our back-up email account.


Pays on acceptance

Acceptance means when we receive the final draft of your article and approve it for publication. Payment is mailed within 32 days from the time we say your piece is ready for publication. Checks are written and mailed last day of each month.

Click here for payment schedule and publishing rights.

Article Length

Keep articles between 500 and 1500 words or specified length for current topics being accepted.


Headshots

The theme of The Dabbling Mum is to show our experts as regular people. It makes us more personable and friendly. Therefore, we require headshots of our authors, for articles placed online; except in our recipe center.


Expenses On Assignment

We do not pay the expenses of a writer on assignment. We do not pay for long distance expenses should you choose to interview a source by phone. (Consider email.)


Kill Fee

We do not pay a kill fee.


Buys Manuscripts

We purchase between 2 to 8 articles per month or 24 to 96 submissions per year.


Publishing Schedule

Articles are published 1 to 4 weeks after acceptance notification, unless otherwise specified at time of acceptance.

Articles are published throughout the month.


Article Reserve Rights

We reserve the right to change the focus of this publication at any time.

We reserve the right to edit for space, our publication's voice, style, grammar, punctuation, typos, etc.

We reserve the right to change your article's title, condense your material, and/or rearrange content to flow smoother.

We reserve the right to ask for rewrites to make the piece its best.

We reserve the right to refuse submissions at our discretion, and choose whether your piece will appear in our e-zine, on our blog, or be posted on TheDabblingMum.com.


Bio Reserve Rights

We reserve the right to condense your byline to fit our publication's format.

We reserve the right to remove the active link in your byline; if the link you've provided us with no longer belongs to you or has become invalid.

We reserve the right to replace broken links in your byline with your most current online presence.

We reserve the right to remove any mention of a website, blog, or social media presence in your author's byline if you no longer have an online presence, or we cannot find one.


Better Your Chance Of Acceptance

Our philosophy when it comes to accepting articles for this publication is simple: "more is better".

There are many times our editor will research a topic for personal use and have to weed through hundreds of web pages to get to the stuff that is "important". We don't want DM readers to come here and skip on past our content because it's all fluff. We want them to stick around.

We want them to think, "Wow! This publication offers fresh ideas and informative articles."

For DM, a web page isn't just about keyword stuffed articles that increase ad revenue or page views.

For DM, a web page is truly about helping the reader reach his/her end goal... so write in a conversational tone, write to both educate and entertain, and most importantly, be informative.


Provide Original Content

Be Conversational

Stay On Topic

Provide Plenty Of Details

Be Factual

Don't Be Preachy

Be Recent

Make Quotes Count

Begin With A Motivational Quote

All quotes MUST be related to the topic you are covering.

End With Take Aways

Clear Photographs


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