ButYouDontLookSick.com Article Submission Guidelines

 

We are now accepting writing submissions in the folowing areas.


Hopefully one of the areas will be of interest for you.
1. Book Reviews
2. Product Reviews
3. Tips/ “How to’s” with any hobbies or skills you may have that others may enjoy reading about- especially if you can give tips on how to accomplish these things more easily with a disability. Ex. Basic web design, work from home, knitting, gardening, cooking, going to school, etc.
4. Recipes (easy ones possibly geared toward those with a disability or energy issues.)
5. Movie Reviews
6. Crafts and Hobby Related articles.
In addition to the topics listed above, we are open to any and all suggestions on how we may work together in the future.
Because our book reviews and product reviews are our most highly visited sections on our site- we will give preference/ priority to those writers who submit in those areas as well as articles/ stories. We would love to form a
relationship with our writers and form a “staff” of regular writers, who we would be able to give preference to. To be considered “staff” you need to be able to commit to write at least one article a month, but if you are not able to do that please feel free to submit something whenever inspiration hits. Any works by authors who write for us on a regular basis will be promoted in our newsletter.
Article Lengths
Unless you are contributing short items, the preferred article length is between 600-1250 words. However, this is meant as a guideline, we do not count words, finding that most writers have a feel for when they have covered a topic adequately.
Deadlines
We accept submissions at all times. If your submission is time sensitive, or seasonal please give a minimum of 2 weeks.
Policy on First Submissions & Reprints
As is true for other periodicals on or off the web, ButYouDontLookSick.com prefers to publish original articles or first time submissions. However, on occasion, in order to advance its goal of patient awareness, we will reprint
significant articles that have appeared in print format elsewhere, but have had limited circulation.
Policy on Format for Submission of Material
ButYouDontLookSick.com exists only in an electronic format and therefore we can only accept electronic submissions of material. Submissions should be sent as an attached Microsoft Word document. If you do not have Word, save your article as a “.txt” format file (for example, MyArticle.txt). Please follow the format that is currently being used on our site for your articles.
Please submit a short 4-6 sentence bio about yourself with your first submission.
Terms/Rights purchased:
Currently we do not pay freelancers- if we accept your submission, we will publish and promote your article online at http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com At this time we are not able to pay for articles. Please note all submissions will take approximately 2 weeks for review, in order to determine if they will be used on the site. All submissions are subject to basic editing and become the property of butyoudontlooksick.com. If chosen for publication you will be contacted by our staff with a link to the published article.
We will not accept articles that are not “family friendly”. No foul language, sexual themes, etc.
Please use our contact form to submit your article or to inquire further.
Thank you for helping to make butyoudontlooksick.com, a more interesting and valuable site to visit for our readers. We learn so much from each other and your input is essential.
*Disclaimer: any and all works sent to the author are done so of original authors own free will. There will be no monetary contribution made for the works received or used. The author has the right to use any/all part of the works sent at her own discretion.
Christine Miserandino

  • Heidi Moore

    Dear ediitors,

    Thank you so much for vastly improving the quality of my life with your fantastic blog. I really love and am inspired by all that I read.

    Upon reading one of the poems this week, I felt inspired to write one of my own. I have read your Submission guidelines and know that you are not asking for poems. Still, I thought it might be a good oe because it addresses the spirit of some of your recent articles–the idea of not being heard by the doctor.

    I am a former college professor of writing, who had just earned her PhD and was excited about a long, great career of teaching and writing when I got sick. First they said Fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain; then I had a ruptured (leg) aneurysm and was diagnosed with Vascular EDS, and later CRPS…and just in the last month Addison’s Disease. Whew. That’s enough now!

    I am also working on the second draft of a book on my experience of being sick. I was wondering whether one or two short pieces would be appropriate for BYDLS. For example, I have something on storytelling and performance, meaning the way we rattle off the story of our illness must become very much a performance if we are to effect a diagnosis.

    I would be very happy to send in one or both pieces for your consideration.

    Cordially,
    Heidi Moore