Become a Contributor!

Do you love interior decorating and interior design?

Are you obsessed with DIY projects?

Do you have a knack for writing?

Are you anxious to share your knowledge and expertise with a very targeted audience that consists of tens of thousands of people each month?

If you answered yes to these questions, you should consider becoming an A2D Contributor!

As an A2D Contributor you will be listed on our A2D Contributors page. That page will link to your very own profile page, which will include a photo of you, as well as your biographical information. On that page, you may share anything and everything about yourself that you wish to share. You may also link to your own personal website, blog, or business website. Basically, you can self-promote all you want! Then each article that you submit will include a small photo of you and a byline, both linked directly to your A2D profile page.

Click here to see an example of a contributor article which includes a photo and byline.

As a contributor, you will also be given access to the A2D blog, where you may blog on anything related to interior design, interior decorating, home decor, etc.

Here are the details:

1. We ask that you commit to writing a minimum of five articles (or DIY instruction guides) within three months. After your initial obligation is met, you may submit additional articles at your leisure if you choose, or you may choose to submit no more articles.

2. Articles should relate to one of the topics on the left navigation bar on the A2D website. If your article is about a topic not seen there (but still related to interior design, interior decorating, etc.), please contact us to get prior approval before writing and submitting the article.

3. All submissions must be completely unique--absolutely no duplicate articles please!! If an article has been submitted to another website for publication, you must re-write the article substantially before submitting it to A2D so that search engines will not view it as duplicate information. Duplicate articles will be rejected.

4. The article will remain your property, and you will retain the copyright. However, by submitting your article to A2D, you are giving A2D the exclusive rights to the article for a period of one year (12 months). At the end of one year, the article will remain on the A2D website, but you are free to submit the article to other websites if you choose to do so.

5. By submitting your article to A2D, you give the owners of A2D (and any official representative of A2D) the right to use your article (or selected portions/excerpts from the article) and related photos on any section of the A2D website and the A2D blog, as well as on any other website in an effort to promote the A2D website, i.e., www.curbly.com, www.flickr.com, etc. (please note: this is not an exclusive list)

6. Articles must provide quality information. They may not be used as a means to promote your own business, services or products. Press releases may not be submitted as articles. These types of promotional articles will be rejected.

7. Articles should include at least one photo to illustrate the subject of the article. Photos should be your property. If the photo is not your property, please ensure that you have permission from the owner to use the photo on the A2D website. This is your responsibility! We will not do this for you. By submitting photos, you agree that you are taking full legal responsibility for those photos.

8. Articles should be between 250 and 800 words in length. These are only guidelines--they are not hard and fast rules. We simply ask that you provide a well thought out article that is full of helpful information.

9. Articles should be written in third person. First person may be used minimally, as it gives the article a more personal feel (which we like!), but for the most part, the article should not be overly personal and casual. Instead, it should reflect your expertise on the topic. (Note: Once you are approved as a contributor, if you have something more personal or casual to share, i.e., you would like to share about the antique shop you discovered in your city last weekend, you may post those items on the A2D blog.)

10. A2D does not pay for article submissions.

11. If you fail to meet your obligation of 5 articles in three months, we will remove your biography page from our contributors page. However, your article(s) will remain on our site as per #4 and #5 above. Also, your linked photo/byline on your articles will be replaced with a simple text byline.

We reserve the right to:

1. Accept or reject any submission;

2. Edit any submission;

3. Return any article to you for editing for grammar, length, quality of content, etc.

Are you ready to get started?

If you're interested in being an A2D Contributor, please complete the following form for consideration. You will need to copy and paste a sample of your writing. This does not need to be unique material. It can be from your own website, or an article you have written for another publication. This article will not appear on the A2D website. We simply want to have a look at a sample of your writing.

We make every effort to contact you within seven days from date of submission.