Editor Interview: Diamante Lavender Blog

Art and inspiration

Some of my favorite artists are Soosh, Cameron Gray, Joe Gilronan, Nick Gustafson, and Anita Hubbard. I enjoy publishing a wide variety of art including whimsical, inspirational, or nature scenery.
I also publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that is deeply reflective, inspirational, and spiritual. Some of my favorite writers are C.S. Lewis, Shel Silverstein, Eric Carle, and E.B. White.

I like to publish pieces that inspire and promote self-help and self-improvement. I enjoy publishing pieces that offer diverse perspectives, enabling readers, or in the case of art, to form new opinions and ideas about life, its meaning, how we interpret our world, and how to improve the planet through personal and societal growth. I also love to meet new artists, poets, and writers who strive to meet those goals.

Write from the heart. Create from the heart. Find your inner truth and build upon your ideas to improve life, not just for yourself, but also for others. I'm looking for individual creativity, backstories, memoirs, and poetry that uplift and promote betterment in the world and personal experience.

The ideal submission is a creative journey in words or art that either identifies a problem in society or personal experience and positively solves that problem or that focuses on the beauty of a moment, experience, or inspirational place. It is a submission from the heart that uplifts and inspires through your personal words and experiences.

If a submission is not well edited and written from a thoughtful and helpful perspective, it is not a good fit for the blog or magazine.
If the submission is an art piece, it must have the background cropped out, no watermark, and a backstory of the piece included, along with the artist's perspective of the piece. Too often, I receive submissions that are not ready for publication and require polishing before being made public.

I prefer a short bio, approximately 100 words, of the author or artist with each submission. I also like to see a brief paragraph, approximately 200 words, of the creator's accolades with each submission. The submission forms on my site have the information outlined that I prefer to receive.

I read every piece I receive to the end. Since I only print flash fiction, poetry, or short pieces, I have the time to look over every submission in its entirety.

I am willing to do light editing. If a piece requires heavy editing, I have to reject it due to time constraints.

For every magazine publication, I take out paid ads on Pinterest. I also post every new project (blog and magazine) on BlueSky, Mastodon, and Pinterest. All of the artist or author's contact information is shared on social media and in the publication itself.