Publishers: Greeting Cards

7 Publishers
  • Emotional Rescue is a UK-based greeting card company that publishes hilarious and cheeky greeting cards. They are looking for writers, artists, or illustrators to write or draw cards for them. According to their website, they pay well, but rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Blue Mountain Arts is an established publisher of greeting cards. They want “contemporary prose or poetry written from personal experience that reflects the thoughts and feelings people today want to communicate to one another, but don’t always know how to put into words.” According to their guidelines, they pay $300 per poem for the worldwide, exclusive rights to publish it on a greeting card and other products, and $50 per poem for one-time use in a book. To learn more, visit this page.

  • Kalan LP supplies innovative and trendy gifts and novelty items to retailers across the United States. They previously indicated to be seeking fun and original ideas for their products, from greeting card copy to one-liners for magnets, shotglasses, and other product lines. Their guidelines are no longer available, but you can find their contact information at the bottom of their main page.

  • GrammaBurp is a family-owned humorous greeting card company. Their cards feature vintage photos. They want freelancers to first request them to be placed on their freelancers list. When they have projects available, they will send the freelancers one or more photographs that need text captioning or gaglines for. According to their guidelines, they pay $50 per gagline. To learn more, refer to their freelance writer's guidelines.

  • Cardthartic is a greeting card company that is looking for “passages messages”. They “welcome messages that sound like you — just as natural, conversational and personable as possible.” According to their guidelines, they pay $50 for each published message. For details, refer to this page.

  • Oatmeal Studios is a humorous greeting card company. They are seeking humorous greeting card ideas. It is not necessary for writers to draw a visual but they should provide a brief description of it. According to their guidelines, their rate for writer copy is $100 per idea. For details, refer to their writers’ guidelines.

  • Snafu Designs is a greeting card company that sells humorous cards in most of the 50 states of USA and also in Canada. They have a full line of greeting cards including birthday, wedding, retirement, Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving cards. They want clever ideas that are aimed at their “smart adult audience.” According to their guidelines, they pay $100 for any idea that they use. They're not always open to submissions. To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.