Joie, my new free online magazine, is here! In case you haven’t heard yet, Joie is all about the art of joyful living and is a lifestyle mag that will cover many of the same topics as Indie Fixx: art, craft, living, design, fashion, etc., but will allow for expanded coverage as well as LOTS more eye candy. Each issue will be centered around a theme…the first of which is renewal.
I’m so very excited to share Joie with you. It’s been a longtime goal and a long time in the making and I want to take a moment to thank my wonderful contributors and advertisers, both of which made it all possible. I do hope you enjoy Joie.
The next issue is scheduled to come out in mid-October and I am looking for artists, writers and photographers who want to contribute. Email me for more info. I’m also taking reservations for ad spots for the next issue as well. Email for rates and specs.
Enjoy and please share your thoughts & suggestions about my newest project. I’d love to hear from you! Also, please feel free to post about Joie on your blog, twitter, facebook and wherever else you want to!
Remember how I’ve been talking about starting my own online magazine? Well, it’s finally here! Or at least it will be here. It’s scheduled to debut next month and right now, I’m hard at work putting the finishing touches on it and making it just perfect, but I know you are wondering what it’s all about, what it’s called & more.
So, my new online mag is called Joie
and it’s all about the art of joyful living. It’s a lifestyle mag and will cover a lot of same topics as Indie Fixx: art, craft, living, design, fashion, etc. but will allow for expanded coverage as well as LOTS more eye candy. It will be a quarterly mag to start off and if it prove popular (and humanly possible) I may be putting it out more frequently. Does this sound up your alley? Of course, it does. You are reading this blog, after all.
The magazine will be free to read, but will contain advertising…a girl has got to be paid for all her hard work somehow, and there are actually 2 ways to advertise in the mag right now 1) in the classified section and 2) with a full page ad. I’m offering introductory rates that are SUPER affordable and start at only $15!
Click HERE or email for more details about how to become an advertiser. I’d love to have you!
Stay tuned for details on the release of Joie. It’s going to be the most amazing magazine you will ever read.
I’ve always loved reading periodicals from outside my own region. In high school, I read British mags during my Anglophile phase, and in my 20’s I read in the locally produced newspaper from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Lakota Sioux reservations in South Dakota (I had it mailed to Delaware).
Lately, I’ve been reading Sunset, a magazine whose tagline is ‘how to live in the west’, and it really makes me dream about moving to the west. The Mr. and I are kinda kicking the idea around for when Indie Fixx Jr. is done with college. The Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, Southern Cali and the Bay Area seem really appealing for different reasons. We are throwing Austin, Tempe, Portland around, and anywhere in California we think we could afford…which isn’t much. The natural beauty and cultural aspects of these places make them really appealing and reading Sunset and looking at all the photos makes me long for them in a totally fantastical what-if kind of way. I’m not sure that I could actually do it, move away from my family, but the more I read Sunset the more I want to take some vacations and explore the idea.
What about you, are you dreaming of moving? Is it a reality? Is it something that you will relegate to your wishful thinking world?
For you quilters and sewer types, there is a new e-magazine out that you may like called Fat Quarterly. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy for review and I have to tell you that it’s full of projects…there’s at least 1/2 dozen complete projects with thoroughly in-depth instructions. One of the projects is for the quilt pictured above, the Jewel Box Quilt, which is by Brioni Greenberg. There’s also some designer interviews and bunch of giveaways, including a Designer Challenge.
Each issue is $8 or you can get a yearly subscription for $28.
New feature time. I decided it would be a good idea to share magazines I like, because of the sentiment I read a lot on the Internet about how ‘magazines are dead’. I beg to differ, I think they are are alive and kicking. Now, I admit in a not too distant future that the paper magazine may go the way of the dinosaur, but until all this technology gets sorted out it’s our job to keep the mags we like healthy and alive. If not, they will go out of business before the transition can be made to whatever magazines are gonna be in the future.
I also hear so much about how the Web is ‘free’, but people need to realize it’s really not free. So much of the content that is on the Web is recycled from magazines and newspapers. What will there be if all the mags and newspaper go out of business? I know I couldn’t afford to keep up with Indie Fixx if I didn’t get some revenue from it. I’d need to make money somehow. And so do the content makers at mags and newspapers.
So, to that end I will periodically be sharing magazines that I subscribe to or purchase at the newsstand that I’m fond of. Maybe you will find one that you like to.
The 1st publication I’m sharing is Organic Gardening by Rodale Press, the premier organic gardening gurus. You may think that a magazine started by one of the founders of the modern day sustainable farming movement would be stuffy and boring. Quite the opposite though, the magazine is totally approachable for newbies and old-hands alike. I’m glad to be subscribing again after a decade long hiatus. It is helpful and practical for backyard organic gardeners like me.
