Become an Author on Military Brat Life

Before you can actually start submitting work to Military Brats Online, you must first register to become an author. If you have not done so, go to our Register As An Author page.

There is a simple sign up form to complete, and once the form is submitted, authors are usually approved by the editor with 24 hours.

Once approved, you will receive instructions and submitting your work. Please save all instructon emails for future reference.  

Submitting Work for Consideration

Be sure to read the Writer's Guidelines so you are familiar with the length of work, our readers, and general writing guidelines. Also, review the website to make sure your submission is appropriate for the website.

There are two different content types:

• Articles - Article content is just that, articles, essays, book reviews, poetry and short fiction. Article content will be seen under the Article list
• Blogs - Blog content should be used if your submission is more of an opinion piece or if you have ongoing material for a regular column

Working with Microsoft Word documents

It is recommended that you work with Microsoft Word or a similar document creation program on your own computer.

You can create a draft, make revisions and edits to the material before you submit it to Military Brat Life.

Spell Checking

You must spell check before you submit the work. This will speed up the publication process. Submissions that contain numerous mis-spellings will not be published.

Save Your Document

You should save your document, so you have a copy of the work.

Submitting Your Document

Before you submit your work, be sure to:

• Edit your document
• Spell check your document
• Change any underlined text into italics
• Make all the text on the page the same size (12 point is fine)
• Save your document

Sending your work

• First, go to the Author Submission page (you will receive instructions on this after you are approved as an author)
• Complete the Work Submission Form.
• Attach your document.
• Send the form

You will receive a confirmation email after your work has been sent and received by Military Brat Life.