The Collectors Weekly Answer Desk
(actually C&P Tel. operators, 1951)
Can I write a guest column for you?
Sure! If you are highly knowledgeable in a specific collecting area, and are willing to share your expertise, we’d love it if you submitted a guest column to us.
Here’s how it works:
1. Please read the guidelines below.
2. Send us your column (or email us first, if you’d like to kick around ideas).
3. When you submit your column, please tell us about yourself and list your qualifications as an expert in your particular collecting area.
Guidelines:
- We’re looking for really in-depth, detailed articles. Text lengths range from 1,500 – 2,500 words, although if your column is extraordinarily specific, it can run as long as 5,000 words.
- We do not pay for guest columns, but we will give you credit, including a byline and link to your website, if you have one.
- We will not run columns that are overly self-promotional in nature or designed to publicize a store, dealership, or other commercial venture.
- All guest columns should be accompanied by five or more high-quality, web-ready images. Please make sure you own the rights to these images so that we may publish them without infringing on someone else’s copyright.
- Please cite your sources (sorry, but Wikipedia cannot be your primary source).
- We don’t typically publish columns that have already appeared on the web (such as on your website). We can, however, accept columns that have been published on the web but have been given a fresh angle. We can discuss this when you contact us.
- We reserve the right to edit all columns, and there is no guarantee that we will publish it.
- You must confirm that you are the sole author of the column you submit to us, and agree that we may republish it at CollectorsWeekly.com and in other formats as we see fit.
For example, here are a few of our favorite guest columns:
Collecting The Parker 51, A Classic Vintage Pen
Collecting Vintage Transistor Radios of the 1950s and 60s
Collecting Modern Facsimiles of Historical Playing Cards
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