Writers' Submission Guidelines
  • Card should have an interracial theme. When writing text it might be helpful to have an image in your mind to go with the text.
    The art might be an interracial couple, interracial parents and their child, etc. (Both serious and lighthearted material
    considered)

  • Offensive material will not be considered.

  • Please do not submit more than 10 ideas at a time. All work should be original and author should keep copy of his/her work.

    Please submit the following themes according to the calendar:
    January through March: Mother's Day and Father's Day
    May through August: Thanksgiving and Christmas
    October through December: Valentine's Day
    Year Round: Wedding/Anniversary, New Baby, Love, Thinking of You, Encouragement

  • We do not wish to receive Condolence/Sympathy, Birthday, or Graduation themes at this time.

  • Include the following information with all submissions: Name, Address, Phone, Fax (if possible), and Email. If submitting ideas
    via the postal service, each message or verse should be typed on a separate piece of paper (8 1/2" x 11"), or 4" x 6" or 3" x 5"
    slips of paper or index cards with contact information included on each submission. Each submission should be accompanied
    by a brief cover letter. (If submitting by email, only one cover letter is required.) The letter should be addressed to Michelle
    Emerson, and briefly indicate what you are submitting. The cover letter should be no longer than a short paragraph. If your
    material is not accepted and you want it returned, you should include a S.A.S.E.

  • Melting Pot Gifts buys all rights to accepted ideas.

  • Writers are welcome to submit ideas for both our paper cards and e-cards. However, since we provide e-cards as a free
    service to visitors of our site, we only provide monetary compensation for text for our paper cards. If a writer submits work for an
    e-card, we are happy to provide a link from our site to the writer's site.

  • If your idea is chosen we will contact you within 8-12 weeks. Unfortunately, we cannot give updates on the status of any
    particular submission. Therefore, if after 12 weeks, you do not hear from us, it is safe to assume that we were not able to use
    your submission.

    IF IDEA IS SELECTED, AUTHOR WILL RECEIVE:

    Payment of $50 per idea.
    Name credit (Author's name will be printed on the card).
    Three greeting cards.

    Send submissions to:
    Melting Pot Gifts
    324 S. Broad Street
    Unit 1
    Trenton, NJ 08608

    or

    submit@meltingpotgifts.com
Melting Pot Gifts is currently not accepting submissions for our greeting cards.