Geek Crafts

We love receiving geeky goodness from our readers (you!) Every so often we encounter questions about how we handle submissions, so we thought we would put up a little FAQ section regarding submissions. Here it is:

1. How do I submit a great geeky craft?

Click on our handy dandy Submissions tab and fill out the form completely.

2. What if the craft I want to submit isn’t on a website?

It is a little complicated for us to post a craft that has no web presence. If you do not have a blog or other site where your craft is featured, it can be on a Flickr stream, Tumblr (or other blog) account, or even a message board! Just make sure we have somewhere to link it back to you so you can get the awesome credit you deserve.

3. What if the craft I want to submit isn’t mine?

That’s great, too! Just make sure we know who it belongs to and where to find it.

4. Do I have to give you my email?

Please do. If we don’t have it, we can’t contact you to let you know we are using your submission, nor can we ask you any questions we might have. Your email is safe with us: we don’t even see it until we hit “reply” and we don’t share it with anyone!

5. How soon can I expect a response after submitting something?

This one is a bit tricky. We receive a lot of submissions, and they are almost all wonderful. At any given time only one or two of our writers are reading/handling submissions, so replying back to each one can become quite the task. If you do not hear from us right away, do not despair! We dig into the submissions a few times a week and when we find one we want to use, we will reply to the sender about a day before the post goes on the site (sometimes more, sometimes less). Almost all the submissions are “good enough” and it is usually just a matter of one of our writers getting to it in the long list of great submissions.

6. How do you pick which submissions to use?

As stated above, almost all the submissions are awesome. We do not run submissions like a “request line,” so submitting more than once, or having friends submit the same craft for you won’t help (and yes, we do notice!) Actually, it clogs up our system and makes it more difficult to get to all the submissions, so please don’t do this!  When deciding which submission to use, it is usually a case of what the particular writer is “in the mood for” or what feels exciting that day. If you don’t see your submission up there, don’t despair, and don’t let it keep you from submitting other awesome crafts.

Submit a geek craft to us by filling out the form below. If it’s geeky enough and cool enough we’ll feature it on the site (and credit you for submitting it)!