Lily; beautiful living through faith

If you bought a copy of Lily in Spring 2006, that would be two of us. I can't find any record that it existed, not in a news release or a demise story, although one of the columnists does list her article on her vita. I suspect the field--soft Christian with parenting advice, health tips, decorating and recipes, was just a bit over crowded. It sort of has that Oprahish, scrapbookish spiritual look.

"From the editor" by Wanda J. Ventling: "I, too, have a heart for God, and it has been my desire to create a widely available Christian-lifestyle magazine that meets both spiritual and practical needs since I wrote a business proposal for one in college.. I believe God planted this seed, and He has been faithful to bring an incredible group of people to nurture Lily's development." Ms. Ventling's name appears on several other Meredith publications as a writer or editor.

Articles written by well-known Christian authors such as James Dobson, Gary Smalley, Joyce Meyer; includes book and movie reviews.

One of the tips is in the lower left corner of the cover, "Meredith Specials." Sometimes these become magazines, sometimes not.

Lily; beautiful living through faith
Spring 2006, Premier Issue
Status: Newstand
ISSN NA
Subject: Christian lifestyle, creativity, family, parenting, women
Publication schedule: quarterly
Published by: Meredith Corporation
Address: 1716 Locust Street, LN-218
DesMoines, IA 50309-3023
866-508-7454
no website
$5.99 single
Editor: Wanda J. Ventling
Editorial Director: Gayle Goodson Butler
Chairman and CEO Meredith: William T. Kerr

Where Women Create

Jo Packham started her publishing career at her kitchen table 30 years ago, developing her idea for cross-stitch publications. In January she joined forces with Kellene Giloff and Jenny Doh of Stampington & Company's Somerset Studio to develop a magazine about the studios and galleries of women who create. The first issue includes 11 women who have built businesses and communities around them.

"So you now hold in your hands one of my oldest, most treasured dreams and if you are a woman who creates, then this is your magazine; a thousand stories told from the hearts and hands of as many women. No matter what you make or what medium you use, this is your safe haven, this is a gallery to showcase your wares, a classroom to learn something new, a source of motivation, reassurance, and inspiration."

Whew! All I want is a few more bookshelves. I don't even have draperies, and my walls are beige with my husband's and my paintings. I can't even imagine working in these types of studios, but there ya go! Something for everyone!

Where Women Create; inspiring work spaces of extraordinary women
Winter 2008, Volume 1, number 1, Premier Issue
Status: Newstand
ISSN NA
Subject: creativity, work spaces, studios, women
Publication schedule: quarterly
Published by: Stampington & Company
Address: 22992 Mill Creek, Suite B
Laguna Hills CA 92653
949-380-7318
http://www.wherewomencreate.com
http://stampington.com
$14.99 single; subscription: 4 issues $59.99
Creator, President & Editor in Chief: Jo Packham
Publisher and President, Stampington & Co.: Kellene Giloff
Printer: Quebecor World, Midland, MI

Cooking for 2

We've set a table for two. The editors of Taste of Home "have been hearing the same request over and over from readers. Could you give us more recipes that serve only two people. . . Why not publish a new cooking magazine devoted solely to delicious small-scale recipes?" When this Premiere Issue c2004 appeared on newstands the winter of 2005, (display until February 28, 2005, next issue March 1, 2005) Reiman Media was already publishing Taste of Home, Quick Cooking and Light & Tasty.

In addition to lip-smacking good recipes, the issue includes a reference page on reducing ingredients by 1/2 or 1/3, shopping for two tips, and good web sites.

Taste of Home's Cooking for 2
Premiere Issue Winter 2005
ISSN: na
Canadian GST No. 876052820RT
Subject: Cooking, recipes
Publication schedule, quarterly
Reiman Media Group
5400 S. 60th St.
Greendale WI 53129-1404
$3.99 for Premiere Issue, $4.99 Canada
Subscription $19.96/year; $29.98 for 2 years; $39.98 for 3 years; specials on insert cards, $9.98/year
http://www.cookingfor2.com/
Executive editor: Kathy Pohl
Food Editor: Janaan Cuningham
Chairman and Founder: Roy Reiman


The Reiman Media Group web page reports: "Reiman Publications was started in 1965 by Roy Reiman in the basement of his Hales Corners, Wisconsin home. Today, the Reiman Publications family of companies (located in Greendale, Wisconsin) employs over 500 people in full-time and part-time positions including Editorial, Print Production Scheduling, Circulation Marketing, Prepress and Country Store. Affiliated companies include World Wide Country Tours, LLC, Homemaker Schools and Reiman Advertising and Promotion (RAP).

We publish 13 national magazines, many of which have a rural focus, plus a variety of cookbooks and "coffee-table" books."

It was announced in 2002 that Reader’s Digest Association Inc acquired Reiman Publications LLC for US$760 million cash, and also completed US$950 million in syndicated financing that was partially used to fund the Reiman purchase. Link. Initially, there was little change in the folksy format or style, but the most recent Taste of Home I saw looked like any other recipe magazine, including lots of ads and coupons.

MPLC Connection

This newsletter is intended to keep the library boosters of the Marblehead, Ohio area informed about the progress of their library. Volume 1, issue 1 came out in Fall 2005 and reported that they had a building, the 1914 quarry hospital building in downtown Marblehead. Also there was an update on the book shop, Ex Libris in the Kukay building.

Although I can't find an article about it on the web, I think the original plans for the hospital building fell through due to remodeling and safety costs, and the Ex Libris book shop has since moved to a house and they are now loaning books. The organization has a web site, and is still raising funds for a library building. This grass roots effort on the part of volunteers is the way many communities started their public libraries.

MPLC Connection
Fall 2005 Volume 1, Issue 1
Newsletter
Marblehead Peninsula Library Committee
Subject: libraries, membership
Frequency: unknown
Published by: The Committee
Address: P.O. Box 74
Marblehead, Ohio
Membership Individual $5, Family $10, Bookworm $25, Book Lover $50, Book Collector $100
President Lorrie Halblaub [from Port Clinton News Herald]

Preen

"Preen is a fashion arts, lifestyle quarterly magazine for the young independent woman that has a curatorial eye for the world around her" says the Preen web page.

The premiere issue which says it is bimonthly was sold in US, UK and Canada and featured writers Terry Richardson, Zee Cassavetes, Cass Bird, KT Auleta, and Amanda de Caderaet. But all was lost on me. The only article I even paused at was the one on cakes at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. However, I checked the web, and 1.5 years after appearing, it is now in issue 7, which is not a bad track record, given the small number of women who would want to dress out of their grandfather's closet and Frederick's catalog.

Welcome to Preen: "The past must be invented, the future must be revised. Doing both makes what the present is." John Cage, composer

Cover: "Redefining fashion rules 100% unique"

Preen; a fantastic trip
Spring(?)2007, Premiere Issue
Status: Newstand
ISSN 1933-9100
Subject: Fashion, lifestyle, arts
Frequency: bimonthly
Published by: LSM Mag. Corp. (initials of publisher)
Address: editorial office, 22311 Brookhurst Ave. Suite 105, Huntington Beach, CA 92646
$5.99 single; $7.99 Canada, subscribe online
Editor in Chief/publisher: Lilly Sein McElroy
Creative director: Mary Fagot

Boho; a new American spirit

Gina La Morte (The Style Doctor), the editor-in-chief and publisher writes in her first issue welcome, "I created this magazine to inspire girls like you and help you realize that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. . . Caring for our Earth and being a fashionista are not mutually exclusive. Going green isn't about a trend, it's about a genuine concern for our Earth. . .Being a boho is all about enjoying the eclectic mix of things you love in life while still wanting to make a difference in the world around you."


In an interview with DM News she expanded on just how old the readership of the eco-eager magazine will be, because I was thinking it was high school age.

"Though college-age women are an important demographic for the magazine, it is not “putting [itself] in a box” with its targeting, La Morte insisted.

“Younger women seem to be most interested, but that's not to say we're not talking to 30-something women,” she continued. “For us, the girl is freethinking, radical and wants to be a role model. She loves fashion, but also loves giving back and recognizes that she can love the fashionable things in life, girly things, but is also concerned about her neighbors.”

First, let me say, this is an extremely handsome magazine. The paper is recycled, the colors a bit retro (1970s) for my taste, but it is easy to read with a nice mix of type face, photos and drawings. La Morte has worked in the fashion business with and for many non-profits and foundations, and she must have called in a few markers for some full page ads.

Second, "going green" is not a trend, it is definitely mainstream, and it is quite lucrative. American businesses are falling in lock-step with the whole eco-friendly, save a tree, cap your carbon mentality. It is a huge bandwagon upon which they are all riding.

Even with the internet and the help of sites that track magazines, I'm not quite sure of the publisher, Seed Media. Could it be Seed Media Group that publishes science magazines like Seed? That seems a little unlikely, but perhaps the ecology link brought them together.

Although the reader is encouraged to express her own personal style and live the life she wants as a true bohemian, with increasing government hysteria over the climate and restrictive regulation of commerce, particularly those linked to the petroleum industry (just about every commodity in our everyday lives), there's little chance of that in a young woman's future. Unless she has lots of green. The folding stuff, that is.

Boho; a new American spirit
Fall 2008, Issue No.1
Status: Newstand
ISSN NA
Subject: Fashion, environment
Publication schedule [monthly]
Published by: SEED Media
Address: NA
$4.99 single; subscribe online, 30% less than newstand
Editor in Chief/Publisher: Gina La Morte
Vice President: Glenn Wolski

website: http://www.bohomag.com See for subscription details

Ty Pennington At Home

This premiere issue which went on the newstands in May 2007 is also Vol. XVII, No. 1 of Woman's Day New Ideas Series. From his website: "Hey people! So I've been traveling the country and bringing my style to families who need help for the last couple years, I finally took the time to collect some of my favorite ideas, and some of my current ideas, together. The result is my new mag "Ty Pennington At Home". Pick it up now for tips and tricks on how to bring some style to your pad... without costing yourself a fortune." We learn in the feature "Ty's Team" that his girlfriend Drea Bock is his manager, and that ADHD (who knew?) is his big cause and he's named his gallery ADHD for Art Design Home Decor. Ty was born in the 60s, and I think his magazine and style is just a bit too much 1970s for me--it's everywhere, as are his cross over endorsements for various products. There's just no way I'd stencil a lamp shade in chartreuse and aqua blue--I think I did that in 1969.

Ty Pennington At Home
Premiere Issue, [May 2007]
issn: na
$4.99 US, $5.99 Canada
subscription price: na
frequency: na
Subject: home decorating, home remodeling, lifestyle
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
Woman's Day New Ideas Series
pointclickhome
Woman's Day Special Interest Publications
Editorial Director: Ty Pennington
Editor in Chief: Olivia Monjo
Group Editorial Director: Jane Chesnutt
HFMUS Chairman: Gerald de Roquemaurel

Quick Cooking

Taste of Home's Quick Cooking appears to have two Premiere Issues, both published in 1998. The covers are different, but the only content that is different is that one is Premiere Issue 1998 (3) and the other is Premiere Collector's Issue 1998 (5); the pagination and recipes are identical.

I'm guessing the one on the left was first, because its price is $2.99; the other is $3.95. I picked them up at the library sale for 50 cents, but wouldn't you be mad if you bought the second one on the basis of the cover and discovered you'd just paid for one you already had?

"Almost from the day we began publishing Taste of Home bimonthly, its readers began pleading with us to publish another cooking magazine on the months "in between" each issue. . . so they could receive this practical kind of food magazine monthly. . . Finally we s=responded, with the Premiere Issue you're now reading. . . The main difference is that Quick Cooking puts a huge premium on time. It's aimed at families where busy parents return home after a stressful day at work and want to put a good meal on the table fast."

I think I just might try that peach cake on p. 22 (see cover on the left above). Based on the publisher's web page, this title has been changed to Simple and Delicious.

Taste of Home's Quick Cooking; rapid recipes with homemade taste
Premiere Edition 1998 and Premiere Collector's Issue 1998
ISSN: 1099-632X (supplied)
Canadian GST No. R123204331
Subject: Cooking, recipes
Publication schedule, bimonthly
Reiman Publications
5400 S. 60th St.
Greendale WI 53129-1404
$2.99 for Premiere Issue; $3.95 for Premiere Collector's Issue
Subscription $17.98/year; $29.98 for 2 years
http://www.reimanpub.com
Executive editor: Kathy Pohl
Food Editor: Coleen Martin
Publisher: Roy Reiman

Not a first, but. . .

From the AIArchitect This Week site: "Better Homes and Gardens, the country’s leading “enthusiast” magazine reaching more than 39 million people monthly, and Wells Fargo & Company announced the 2008 Home Improvement Challenge on April 14. The annual contest continues an 86-year tradition of seeing first-hand how America tackles home improvement projects. (And one question entails whether they employed an architect!) Better Homes and Gardens editors award the most innovative efforts in nine categories. Entries for projects of any size and scope are accepted in the following categories: additions, bath, decorating, exterior face lifts, green improvements, kitchen, outdoor improvement, projects under $5,000, and renovation. One winner in each category will be awarded a $2,500 cash prize. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $40,000 in cash and will be featured in Better Homes and Gardens. Entries are accepted through January 31, 2009. Visit the magazine’s Web site for details and entry forms.

E.T. Meredith, the founder of the company that publishes BHG went into publishing as a teenager. He was the Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson. He ran for senator and governor of Iowa, but lost. In 1928 he was considered as a Democratic nominee for president, but he died that year at age 51. His bio at his Iowa archives reports, "He was a champion of farm relief, tax reform, prohibition, military preparedness, tariff reform, arid land development, the World Court, and the League of Nations. Fruit, Garden and Home published by Meredith became Better Homes and Gardens magazine in 1924 as more and more town folk wanted a home magazine, but didn't have farms. The first issue cost a dime on the newsstand, and a one-year subscription cost 35 cents.