Writers Guidelines - Connections Online

Connections Online is a monthly electronic magazine for evangelical Lutheran Christians. It is published six times each year in PDF form, and distributed for free through Constant Contact.  The general editor of the online magazine is Ms. Karen Nelson. If you have an idea or topic you would like us to consider for an article, you may contact her at: knelson@solapublishing.com. 

The online address for Karen's independant publishing work is at:
https://business.facebook.com/karen.nelson.editing.and.design/

Writers' Submissions

Please read our guidelines below before submitting your article, photo, or artwork. Connections Online prefers to accept submissions by email. Every submission is considered. If your proposed article is of interest, we will contact you within 30 days. All queries and manuscripts received will be evaluated, but cannot be returned.

When submitting your article or manuscript, please follow these guidelines:

1) Include your name, mailing address, and phone number in the upper-left corner of the first page. Note the word count in the upper-right corner.

2) Email manuscripts to editor Karen Nelson (knelson@solapublishing.com) as an document attachment, not as the body of the email text. We prefer Microsoft Word documents. Please put "Connections Submission" in the subject line of the email.

3) Include your full name, title, and organization.  We also ask you to submit a picture of yourself ('head shot') suitable for inclusion in the magazine. (If not your own, please give credit to the owner of photographs that you submit.)

4) Include Scripture references for any Biblical quotations after the final quotation mark, with a period after the final parenthesis mark. Example: “God so loved the world" (John 3:16 ESV). Sola normally uses the ESV, but other versions are acceptable.

5) Capitalize the first letter of all proper names for the Divinity, but not pronouns unless it's unclear to whom you are referring.

6) Keep in mind: Space is limited!  Normally, Front Page Articles are limited to 700 words, and are written to feature a biblical, theological, educational, or devotional essay. Ministry Partner Focus articles are shorter, limited to only 400 words plus a 100-word "Learn More" call-out box with basic information on the mission/ministry agency.

Submission of a manuscript, photo, or artwork constitutes permission to publish. All submissions are subject to editing. If an article meets our criteria, we reserve the right to hold it for a future issue. The editor of Connections Online reserves the right to edit your manuscript for clarity and space, and to reject any article or photo at any stage of our editing/production process. 

Copyrights: If accepted for publication, you are giving Sola Publishing one-time print publication right to the article, as well as the right to include your published submission in any archive editions that may be made available on CD or online. Authors maintain full rights to their work after publication.

Compensation: We are unable to compensate writers for submissions. However, one of our goals is to giving exposure to promote the ministry or organization to which the writer belongs, by identifying that connection.

Thank you for considering a submission to Connections Online!