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You may know about my involvement with ELIZA magazine. This fledgling fashion magazine has just made it through its first year: not bad, considering the fact that most new magazines don't. Its namesake is Eliza Doolittle--you know, that classy dame from My Fair Lady who is also, completely coincidentally, up on the header of my personal blog. I promise the name isn't why I joined the ELIZA staff...well, maybe it piqued my interest. I first found out about it on blogs like Tales from the Crib, Musings and Misadventures, Armelle Jewelry, and Your Heart Out.

Currently ELIZA is offering a free subscription for a year (four quarterly issues) to any blogger who does the following:

1) Write a post about what you love about ELIZA.
2) Include a link to the magazine's Web site (elizamagazine.com).
3) Send the post URL, along with the name and address where you'd like to receive your free subscription, to info@elizamagazine.com.

You don't need to have lots of readers, but it does need to be a public blog.

If you're unfamiliar with ELIZA but would like to participate, here are some suggestions to become more familiar:

To see a full list of stores that carry ELIZA (mainly bookstores and newsstands--available in most states), click here. To check out the Web content, you might want to start with the blog, or with this list of featured articles from past issues. I have used the site's Resources page several times when looking for clothes online. If you're into MySpace you can check out its profile there--it also has a group on Facebook. For even more info, you can also try an Internet search for "Summer Bellessa" (the EIC) or "Eliza magazine."

An answer to a question I get asked a lot: The editor-in-chief of ELIZA (tagline: "Modest. Modern.") is LDS, and most of the staff and advertisers are members of one religion or another, but it is not marketed toward or written for members of the LDS Church or members of any church. It's for women, professional or not, all with an interest in fashion, with a small portion in the past two issues aimed at moms (e.g., kids' fashion layouts and ads; a few articles relating to motherhood).

The magazine itself is very pretty. I have seen the layouts, articles, and editing in the actual magazine become noticeably better with each issue. It's really fun to read!

Anyway--there you have it. Participate if you'd like to!