With over thirty five years in business, Blue Mountain Arts is a Colorado-based independent greeting card and book publishing company. Blue Mountain Arts is popular for its innovative art, unique production, quality papers, and a constantly growing roster of artists and authors. The company was started by a married couple who moved from the East Coast to Colorado in search of a brave new life, Susan Polis Schutz (poet) and Stephen Schutz (a physicist and an illustrator).
Blue Mountain Arts offers a paid opportunity for writers of poetry to submit poetic works that would be appropriate for publication on their greeting cards. By appropriate, they are referring to creative and original poems that deal with love, friendship, philosophies, and family to name a few. Mind you, poems that rhyme will not be accepted by Blue Mountain Arts. All you must do is submit your poem to their editorial staff via e-mail (no attachments) and wait for their response.
The good news is that if your poem is accepted, then Blue Mountain Arts will pay you $300. The bad news is that Blue Mountain Arts is pretty selective in what they will pay for. I have known people who submitted some of their best poems to them only to have it rejected. Now, Mr. and Mrs. Schutz, the owners of Blue Mountain Arts, may have worked extremely hard in building this business, starting from their basement to selling silk-screened poem posters from a pickup-truck camper, but that doesn’t mean they have to treat us like the dirt they had to walk on in order to get to where they are now.
It makes one wonder, maybe Blue Mountain Arts is holding out because they don’t have enough money or maybe they’re just too cheap and lazy to pay for quality poems. Let’s see, they have a website with an intermediate Page Rank, tons and tons of traffic, a crappy site net worth, a successful greeting card business, and having sold 1.5 million copies of their book, “To My Daughter with Love on the Important Things in Life”, you would think that money wouldn’t be a problem for the owners of Blue Mountain Arts.
If you could manage to get at least three poems per month paid $300 for from Blue Mountain Arts, then much luck to you, my friend, you have got a fantastic part-time income that will completely make up for that rejected About.com Guide application. Speaking of the important things in life, I’m not trying to bash the owners of Blue Mountain Arts, they seem like very nice, artistic, and sincere people but money talks therefore pays the bills and this company doesn’t seem willing to give out more often.
DISCLAIMER: I, the author/reviewer, have no relationship with the owners of Blue Mountain Arts and I received no form of compensation for the creation of this review. It is solely my opinion.
