Donate An Article Below

We welcome contributions from guest experts and freelance writers.

If you'd like to donate a guest blog post, craft tutorial, recipe, review, or article on writing, business, or parenting, please follow the submission instructions below.

It's real easy to contribute an article to The Dabbling Mum, but you may want to read the bottom of our Writers' Guidelines to get a better understanding of what we're looking for.

And please, take the time to send us your best work. If your work is written half-heartedly, our readers will know and that does not benefit you, or us. When you share your best work, you maximize the potential of getting our readers to click on your byline and visit your site.

Submission Form

Make sure you copy and paste, and answer, ALL the bullets below. They should appear before your submission. If they do not, we will not look at your submission.

Your full name:
Your email address:
Your complete street address:
How did you find us?
Do you own the copyrights to submission and can you legally distribute it for publication?
Crafters, is the design and/or pattern from your tutorial your original?
Do you agree to allow The Dabbling Mum to print your submission online without monetary compensation—now or in the future?
Do you agree to allow The Dabbling Mum to archive your submission online indefinitely?
Do you understand that you still own the rights to your work and may submit it elsewhere; in other words, we are requesting non-exclusive rights to this piece?
Do you understand that by "submission" we mean photos and written text?

Paste Submission (no attachments) in the format below:

What center does your article fit?
Article Title:
Body of Article:
(Either your prewritten article or a query with a sample of your writing)
Your Byline:
(Name, 2-3 sentence description with mention of published book & website.)
Headshot: Provide a link or let us know you can provide one on publication (gif or jpeg). Headshot is not needed for recipe center, but is for other areas.
Optional: Provide an image, taken by you, that helps bring home the point of your article.
Not Optional: Craft tutorials MUST have at least one image of the completed craft.

Did you remember to include...

Regarding recipes: Did you remember to include a personal story about the recipe, along with the recipe?
Regarding reviews: Did you receive the item as a free sample (and from whom), did you purchase it, borrow it, or was it a gift from a friend/family? Please specify when, where, how.
Regarding craft tutorials: Did you receive any of the items in your project as a review or for a design team? Please specify when, where, how.
Regarding crafts tutorials: Did you remember to include a completed project image?
Regarding craft images: Is your image a close-up? Does it have proper lighting? Is it in focus? Did you remember to remove any background noise?

Deliver Submissions

Send your email to: * subs {at} thedabblingmum.com *

Subject line: Article Donation / Guest Post

If you don't hear from us within 8 weeks, please email us to make sure we've received your submission.

All attachments will be DELETED without being read unless we specifically requested them from you.

Important Submission Fact

If we like your donated article, we will hold onto it until we have space to use it. Also, just because you provide an article for free does not mean we will publish it; we require donated articles to follow our format and meet the needs of our readers.

Please be advised that we reserve the right to refuse links that we feel are not in co-operation with the philosophy of The Dabbling Mum and we will not publish your affiliate links.

Articles we accept, on a donated basis, for use in our online magazine, include:

Articles from business coaches, marketing experts, advertising agencies, and successful entrepreneurs.
Articles from licensed marriage, parenting, life, and/or Christian coaches and therapists.
Arts 'n Crafts tutorials from up-and-coming or established designers.
Reprint articles, distributed for free, in the past as long as the articles have not been widely published online.
Articles you plan to distribute for free in the future.

Craft Designers, Manufacturers, And Book Authors Wanted

We also accept donated content from the following, provided we are allowed non-exclusive indefinite archival rights. And if your book or product is sold on Amazon, we'll even include an image and link in the side panel of the article.

Craft tutorials from manufacturers.
Tutorials from a published arts 'n crafts book.
Book excerpts from art, parenting, marriage, business, and/or writing books.

If you provide an arts 'n crafts tutorial, we reserve the right to write a unique introduction to the tutorial or request that you write one for us.

Book Excerpts & Adaptations Wanted

Book excerpts or adaptations are a welcome treat because they allow our readers the ability to see what's inside your book―making it easier for them to make an informed decision on whether they should buy your book or not. However, if your publisher only allows one year archival rights, we cannot use your excerpts or adaptations. We don't have a system to automatically remove your submission nor the manpower to keep up-to-date on such contracts.

If you cannot provide an excerpt or an adaptation with indefinite archival rights, consider donating an article or essay on the theme of your book. That way, you don't break your contract and you still help promote your book.

Submissions should be between 500 and 1,500 words. Submissions should be self-contained. In other words, submissions should be able to be read without feeling as though you've just walked into the middle of a conversation or as though you've been left with a cliff-hanger.

We do not publish prefaces, book synopsises, or entire chapters. We are looking for stand-alone excerpts, adaptations with excerpts from your book, or articles written on the premise of your book. We want to provide content that gives our readers―your audience―a favorable impression of your book and/or you, the author.

We do not pay for adaptations or book excerpts, but we will link to your book using our Amazon affiliate id, along side your submission. That means that every sell we make earns this publication a few cents to cover hosting fees and maintenance while it increases both your royalty checks and your numbers with the publishers.

If your book is self-published and not in Amazon's database, we won't be able to include it in our sidebar, but we can still include a link back to your sale page--via your byline.

We will also include a 3-4 sentence byline at the end of your contribution which will include information about you, the author. Your name, your expertise, your book's title (complete with link to Amazon), and a clickable link back to your website.