PCOS Magazine

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, Dec. 16, PCOS Magazine Editor/Publisher Linda Harvey

will be interviewed by Sasha Ottey of PCOS Challenge.

Here’s the announcement! Please call in and ask a question!

PCOS Magazine invites its readers to visit the new FREE-TO-READ version of the entire magazine. Using the great online-magazine technology created by Issuu, PCOS Magazine readers can find the latest issues in a number of different locales: The PCOS Magazine blog; the PCOS Magazine homepage; or at Issuu! While you’re there, subscribe! You’ll be the first to know anytime a new issue is posted!

Two of the most intensive jobs of starting a magazine are finding content and procuring advertisers.

I’ll admit this…the first issue was short. This next issue (which will be out shortly) will be longer. To keep up with this trend, here at PCOS Magazine, we need help! I don’t like short, and I know you, as readers, like more pages and more content. Who doesn’t?

Do you have a background in journalism? Do you like to write? Do you have a unique story idea that you’d like to develop into a story and then contribute? If so, then we want to hear it!

Also, more advertisers means more premium content. We need advertising sales gurus who are willing to work on commission (at least staring out) to help PCOS Magazine add more advertisers to its repertoire. You have the background? Contact the editor!

The September/October issue of PCOS Magazine is live and available at Magcloud. To keep overhead costs low and give you the best magazine possible, PCOS Magazine is using something called print-on-demand. When you order your copy or copies of PCOS Magazine, it is printed at that point and sent to you by MagCloud.

Virtual copies and subscriptions are a few days away, and we’ll make an announcement here when that option is ready.

In this issue are some great articles about the nutritional needs of teens with PCOS by Angela Grassi of PCOS Nutrition, an introduction to the inCYST Network and Monika Woolsey, and relevant diabetic information you might not have known about. Holly Amarandei talks to us about learning to love exercise, and there’s a great article about dealing with the long-term emotional effects of chronic illness.

Let us know what you think! We’d love to hear your comments on this issue, and if you have ideas for the November/December issue, contact us!

I had previously migrated this blog to the PCOS Magazine website. Then the “update” to Wordpress 2.8.4 happened, and I’ve had nothing but trouble ever since. So, while I made a change in coding (per suggestions) and while the 8-zillion files ftp to my hosting provider, I’m posting here.

PCOS Magazine is slated to hit the proverbial newsstands next Wednesday, Sept. 30. I will be posting subscription links (very obvious for all to see) on both the PCOS Magazine website as well as Facebook and most likely Twitter. I will also post information to these two blogs, provided I can access the one now attached to the magazine’s website. In addition to columns by Angela Grassi, Monika Woolsey and Holly Amarandei, there will also be a great article about the long-term emotional effects of PCOS and other chronic illnesses, featuring information from women and girls like you with PCOS. I guarantee it’ll be a good read.

On the personal front, I’ve now been taking Byetta almost a month. Getting ready to move on to the 10mcg dose. However, about a week ago started getting the requisite funky sore throat and now I have some minor oral (mouth) soreness. Couldn’t find much online about the oral soreness, but wonder if it’s still possible. Mind you, at the same time, my sinuses started getting inflamed again, which leads to my cheeks and upper palette swelling a little bit…so it could be that. If anyone’s had mouth soreness on Byetta, I’d love to hear about it. Want to make sure I’m not completely nuts.

Pardon the “shouting,” but I’m happy to announce that the website for PCOS Magazine (formerly PCOS Today Magazine) is now live. You can reach it at http://www.pcosmagazine.com. You’ll find a fairly well-designed site with preview of the upcoming September/October issue of the magazine.Angela Grassi’s column about PCOS nutrition returns, Monika Woolsey gives us an update on what the inCYST network is doing, and more!

More details about the next issue will follow in the next few weeks too. I will also be adding a “community” page shortly. Check back to the new site soon for more information about subscribing, either to a digital/virtual version of the magazine, or a hard-copy. This is exciting stuff, folks!

I think I’m finally getting the hang of this technology thing!!!

The PCOS Today blog is migrating to it’s new home with PCOS Magazine (formerly PCOS Today Magazine). The new blog, which contains the same posts you’ve come to love here at the PCOS Today blog, can be found here.

The new PCOS Magazine site, as a whole, will be uploaded in the next few days!

So, come join us. Take a look at the new blog. Please read the new post (called “Thinking” about PCOS Magazine) and provide your commentary!

I look forward to seeing you there! — Linda

After some trials, some tribulations, and a name change, PCOS Magazine (formerly PCOS Today Magazine) will resurface at the end of September 2009 (a few mere months away)!

There are all sorts of (great!) changes ahead. First off, readers will be able to access the magazine, via subscription AND single copy, either hard copy or virtually through Issuu and MagCloud. Monika Woolsey is going to update us on her PCOS workshops, and readers will find out about big (and good) changes with Project PCOS.

Not changing is Angela Grassi’s column! She’s back with another great piece, this time about the nutritional needs of teens with PCOS.

The new PCOS Magazine website will be up and running by the end of this week. It will include writer’s guidelines if anyone would like to submit articles, etc., to the magazine, as well as a page of resources. It’s a work-in-progress, so bear with us while these changes happen. More content will be added constantly (and an announcement will be included here as that happens)!

So, early next week, check for the new site! By the way, if you’re interested in advertising either in the magazine or on the magazine’s website, contact Linda Harvey!

I think I learned a valuable lesson recently: I just need to get over myself! I know….that’s not a loaded comment, not at all. Let me explain why I say this.

Just over a year ago, my life changed in a big way. I left a much-loved job to join my fiance in another state, changing home and hearth, finding a new job, the whole bit. At the same time, I started to let the harder aspects of publishing a magazine (mind you, things like MagCloud and Issuu weren’t *quite* on the scene yet) get me down, and because I felt like I was going through a bit of an existential meltdown at the time, I gave up on my brainchild, PCOS Today Magazine. Boy was that a dumb idea (the giving up on the magazine part….not the joining my fiance thing).

Fast-forward to now, and I’ve found that there is still quite a following for ongoing, serialized discussion about the PCOS disorder.  So, long story short, I’m making a go of it again. That, and I’ve got some other projects on the horizon and I wanted to give a holler out to all the ‘cysters’ to let y’all know. Here goes:

First, the “next” issue of PCOS Today Magazine, along with a revamped website, will be out by the end of September. I’ll make an announcement here in the blog and in Soulcysters.net, etc., when it’s all up and running. Right now, some exciting stuff is on the horizon for this issue, including an article by Monika Wolsey, and, I hope, another PCOS nutrition column from Angela Grassi.

Secondly, my book is about 3/4 of the way done. I’ve spent the better part of the past year writing a Teen’s Guide to PCOS. I continue to want to add stories from ADULT women who don’t mind explaining how they learned of the disorder, what the impact was on their life, what it was like as a teen dealing with it (no real names will be used in the book, just pseudonyms). If you don’t mind sharing your story, please e-mail me at pcosstories@gmail.com. The book should be available via Amazon.com and its own website within the new few months. I plan to post excerpts from the book to this blog in the coming weeks for commentary, etc. If you have ideas for what should be in the book, let me know (either via e-mail or a comment here). I’m open to suggestion!!!

I’m really looking forward to hearing from all of you!