Write for Plumerie

The Plumerie blog publishes research-backed articles, practical guides, and opinionated essays about books, home libraries, reading culture, and the communities that form around shared bookshelves.

We’re a small team — one founder, one blog — and we’re looking for contributors who care about the same things we do: the value of physical books, the quiet power of a home library, and why sharing matters more than accumulating.

If you have something to say that our readers would be glad they found, we’d like to hear from you.

Home library. How people build, organize, and live with their book collections. Personal essays about what your library means to you. Practical advice on shelving, curation, and the art of knowing what to keep.

Reading culture. Why reading matters. How reading habits form, change, and shape us. The neuroscience, the psychology, the sociology — but always made accessible and interesting, never academic for its own sake.

Lending and sharing. The culture and logistics of lending books to friends, running book swaps, building little free libraries, and creating informal lending networks. Stories about what happens when books move between people.

Multilingual reading. Reading in more than one language. Raising bilingual readers. Finding books in your heritage language. The experience of being a reader in a language your local library doesn’t stock.

Anti-consumption and intentional reading. Reading what you own. Borrowing before buying. Curating instead of accumulating. The philosophy of “enough” as it applies to bookshelves.

Pitch first. Don’t write the full piece before we’ve talked. Send us your idea using the form below — a paragraph or two explaining what you want to write, why it matters, and why you’re the right person to write it. Include a link to something you’ve written before if you have one.

We’ll respond within a week. If we’re interested, we’ll discuss the angle, scope, and any adjustments. If it’s not the right fit, we’ll tell you honestly and quickly.

Write your draft. Once we’ve agreed on the direction, write the piece. Most of our articles run between 1,000 and 2,000 words, but length should follow the topic — say what needs to be said and stop. We’ll share our style guide to help you match the blog’s tone.

We’ll edit together. Sophie edits every piece that goes on the blog. Expect at least one round of feedback, sometimes two. We edit for clarity, tone, and accuracy — not to make your voice sound like ours.

Publication. Your piece goes live on the Plumerie blog with your byline, a short bio, and a link to wherever you’d like readers to find you. We’ll share it on our social channels. You’re welcome to share it on yours too — just link back to the Plumerie version rather than republishing the full text.

We can’t pay for guest contributions right now. What we can offer: a growing readership of intentional, book-loving people. A byline on a blog that takes its editorial quality seriously. One do-follow link in your author bio. And the knowledge that your piece sits alongside research-backed, carefully edited work — not content-mill output.

If that changes and we’re able to pay contributors in the future, we will. For now, this is a collaborative exchange between people who care about the same things.