Submission Guidelines 

Current Submission Theme: The Beauty of Women

This theme celebrates the beauty of women. By beauty, we mean the talents, smarts, grace, and everything that makes women, women. For the month of March, we are celebrating women and some of our favorite female authors, characters, artists and much more. Much more coming soon.

Writing submissions:

  1. Must be double-spaced, 1 inch margin, with a cover page with name (pen or artist name), contact information, categories of works, and social media addresses/links.
  2. You can submit previously published work only if you can prove you own the rights to publish it.
  3. We do check to make sure that you are  indeed the artist of any previously published work.
  4. Please only submit your own original work or other artist’s works, no serials.
  5. You can submit up to 3 poems per submission.
  6. Please don’t submit more than once in a six month period. So please submit all entries at once.
  7. All writing prose (for example: essays, short stories, etc) can be up to 2000 words.
  8. Only submissions of that month’s theme will be published. Works of other themes or genres might be considered for publication later. You will be notified if that’s the case.
  9. Response time is 1-2 weeks for submissions of the current theme and 3-6 weeks for other themes or genres.

Visual Art and Photography submissions:

  • All pictures or visual art must be submitted as a jpeg
  • No watermark can be present in the middle of the image. Small watermarks in the corner of the images are fine. But since we tag the site you provide us with or where the image is originally posted, watermarks are not necessary.
  • Please no nudes or explicit photos
  • Must coincide with theme.
  • Include in the body of your email name, contact information, and social media links.
  • Response time within 1&1/2 weeks

For interest in becoming an frequent contributor or author make sure you include your email in your message. Also samples of your work.

Send submissions/contributors inquiries to our Facebook inbox, Tumblr or aikostreasure@hotmail.com

Interview Submissions:

We are now going to start posting author interviews with indie or hybrid authors. These interviews can be written or a zoom interview. We will post them here and on our YouTube and TikTok.

If you are an author who wants to be interviewed for our site. Please send your inquiry to aikostreasure@hotmail.com, our Facebook inbox, or our Tumblr .

After a short review of your work, our editors will create personalized questions regarding your work(s). If you choose the written format, please answer the questions as soon as you can, and we will schedule a date to post them.

When submitting your answers, don’t forget to include a photo of your book, since we make a mockup for your interview post, and yourself (please try to send .png or high quality .jpg. If you don’t have one, we will explain how you can take one on your own in our message) and links to websites.

  • Depending on the volume of applicants, we might have to set a date for when we’ll post your interview.
  • The only applicants we’ll reject are those containing offensive content in their works.

The types of interviews we conduct are as followed:

  • Introductory Interview: This is a basic interview given to authors chosen to be interviewed. It involves basic questions about the author and their work. It’s basically introduction of the author to our readers
  • Focused Interview: This is a follow-up interview which focuses solely on new works or projects by selected authors. Authors chosen for focused interviews by the admins based on their work. These interviews are mostly given to authors who have had their work reviewed by us.

Book Reviews:

To check our progress, please check our review list: Goodreads Review List 

We are accepting print books for video reviews on YouTube and TikTok. Please send to the below P.O. Box.

Aiko’s Treasure

64 Midland Ave

Unit 3069

Kearny, NJ 07032

Note that sending us a physical copy does not affect how we review. It just makes it easier for us to share it in a video. Also, sending a physical copy is on the author. We do not reimburse for expenses for sending physical copies. You can submit an eBook instead. And if you are an author outside the US, please choose the eBook option for the general review; and then if you want to, you can send a physical copy.

Even if you are sending a physical copy, please send a review request to our email. For example:

You can change it up as you like. Once you receive a response requesting a copy, you can send your media kit with your author’s photo and front book cover.

You can submit eBook (any format accepted, .epub, .kpf {if you don’t know how to create one with the kindle previewer, please contact us and we’ll show you how to}, but preferred .kpf or .epub copies) versions of your books to aikostreasure@hotmail.com with a summary about yourself and the book, why you chose to write your book and links to where readers can purchase your book.

We will review your submission, then send you a reply either confirming or denying your submission. Check below for books we do not read. Once your book is reviewed, we will rank it out of 10 (10 being the highest). We will only post reviews ranked 4 or higher. If your book received a lower ranking, we will ask you if you’d like us to post our review.

Response time: Email responses can take 24-48 hours. Once we accept your request for review, it will be added to our review list. We will email you once we begin reading your book and when we finish. Review time may take up to 2 weeks after we start reading. Could take longer depending on book length. You can check our Goodreads Review List to see our progress.

  • We don’t accept these types of books: Anything containing bestiality, sexual abuse or rape of minors, books with vitriol religious or political agendas (books that discriminate or dehumanize a group of people based on those beliefs) and books committing libel
  • Announcements: We are currently looking for reviewers of erotica. We are working on our back log and current review list. Please check our Goodreads Review List to see our progress.

Book Covers:

    Please nothing to gory or sexually graphic.