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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Is Our Enews in Your In-Box?

Yesterday, more than 4,500 subscribers received their latest copy of the bi-monthly newsletter, the Advice Sisters Enews. This bulletin is free, and features Advice Sisters news, and links to new content on the Advice Sisters Relationships Web Site , plus informationa bout product launches and events I've attended, book reviews, tips and guest expert advice, information about the latest in style and culture, and more.

Where's YOUR copy? Subscribe at: http://www.advicesisters.net/thankyou.html


This particular issue featured two restaurant reviews, for Social House and the Pinot Brasserie, on the Strip in Las Vegas. Whether you're a local, or planning a visit to Vegas, these are two places you won't want to miss.

This Enews issues also featured eleven book reviews of books that have just hit the bookstore shelves, perfect for holiday reading, Mother's day, or a hostess gift. If you are not a subscriber to the Advice Sisters Enews, you missed reviews of: The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom by Jo Barrett (Avon A Books 2007); Still Life With Husband by Lauren Fox (Alfred A. Knopf 2007; You Have Cancer by Ronald P. Bazile, Sr., Ellis M. Brossett St., Preston J. Edwards Sr., and Benjamin M. Priestly, with Don Spears (Dominion Developers, Inc. 2007); Chasing Life by Sanjay Gupta (Warner Wellness, April 2007; Winning After Losing by Stacey Halprin (Warner Wellness May 2007; The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years by Erin Torneo and Valerie Cabrera Krause (Villard Books 2007; The Mona Lisa Stratagem by Harriet Rubin (Warner Books May 2007); The Fierce Beauty Club: Girlfriends Discovering Power and Celebrating Body and Soul, by Elizabeth Herron Element Book 2007; When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness by Tobi Zausner, Ph.D. (Harmony Books, February 2007);
The Confetti Cakes Cookbook by Elisa Strauss with Christie Matheson (Little Brown and Company, April 2007)-- and for two new & unique books on beauty and style, visit our latest What Works column at: http://www.advicesisters.net/whatworkscol3.html

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Monday, April 30, 2007

Spammers Killed our Message Boards

A NOTICE ABOUT THE ADVICE SISTERS FORUMS AREA:

OUR MESSAGE BOARDS/FORUMS: On Friday, April 27th, some spammers posted more than 50 messages, many containing pornographic photos, to our message boards. In attempting to remove them, The Advice Sisters crashed (and then were forced to delete) the current bulletin board system. In the two years we've provided our readers this service, we gathered more than 3,500 subscribers from all around the world. As an alternative, I am trying a new message board system at: http://advicesisters.net/simplemachinesforum/index.php

Feel free to join this board, and bookmark it for future reference. Your patience is requested until we can update all our navigation bars on the Advice Sister web site and configure new features on this new board. If this new board functions well and our readers like it, we keep this new system. However, that means if you were a former subscriber, you will need to re-subscribe. Please do so, now. You can also connect with the Advice Sisters on the Advice Sisters Relationships area on Yahoo!Groups at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/advicesisterssinglesclub/ . Thanks for your patience and your continued support!!


all the best,

Alison Blackman Dunham aka. Advice Sister Alison

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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Where is Your Copy of the Advice Sisters Enews?

you are a subscriber to the bi-monthly, free newsletter, the Advice Sisters Enews, you already received the information below and more, with live links!

This time, I'm not going to put the entire Enews online in this blog. If you want to information in the Enews, I hope you will subscribe. The Advice Sisters Enews is free, delivered to your in-box bi-monthly. It features Advice Sisters news, tips, reviews, expert advice,the latest in style and culture, and more. It isn't too late to get your own subscription, and get the Late Winter, 2007 Advice Sisters Enews delivered right to your in-box. Here are just a few of the highlights:


"The Devil (and You) Wear Prada, Contest: Five lucky people have won more than $1,000 worth of ultra-luxe products from Benefit, Dior, and Z. Bigatti. *sorry, you have to be a subscriber to the Advice Sisters Enews to get the link

Fair Game on NPR with Faith Saile: At precisely 22.30 minutes into the 50-minute+ Valetine's Day "Fair Game" show Black Holes, Neuroscience, and Michael Jackson you will hear a segment about what couples should and should not do behind closed doors. *sorry, you have to be a subscriber to the Advice Sisters Enews to get the link

What Works Beauty, Cosmetics & Fashion Review March 2007 is focused primarily on color cosmetics to add new life to your Spring fashions, along with new fragrances, skin and body-care products, kits and gifts, nail, hair and men's products. *sorry, you have to be a subscriber to the Advice Sisters Enews to get the link


THE ADVICE SISTERS "ABOUT TOWN"


MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK Fashion Week for Fall, 2007, was a busy one, thanks to my colleagues, who facilitated backstage access for me at some of the hottest shows Here are the links to all the posts I created for Fashion Week Fall 2007: Alice Ritter, Akiko Ogawa, Gustavo Arrango *backstage coverage , Alice Roi *backstage coverage , Venexiana, Alexandre Herchovitch *backstage coverage , Araks *backstage coverage, Ellen Tracy *backstage coverage , Vanidades Fashion Lounge, Bill Blass *backstage coverage, Cynthia Rowley Hair & Makeup and Runway Show (& the Cynthia Rowley/Jillian Dempsey Makeup Collection for Fall 2007 for Avon) , Carmen Marc Valvo *backstage coverage, Zang Toi , Alison's Fashion Week "must-haves" *sorry, you have to be a subscriber to the Advice Sisters Enews to get the links

Book Reviews: These non-fiction books are some of the latest titles from major publishing companies. From secrets, to starvation, to sex, they'll educate, inspire, and entertain you *sorry, you have to be a subscriber to the Advice Sisters Enews to get the full reviews. Sign up now: http://www.advicesisters.net/thankyou.html

Write about what you know" is the advice that is often given to beginner authors. Amanda Kerlin obviously listened, and it's for that reason that Secrets of the Model Dorm by Amanda Kerlin and Phil Oh (Atria Books, 2007) succeeds. Ms. Kerlin is a statuesque and beautiful young woman who has "been there and done that" when it comes to modeling....

The Honeymoon's Over by Andrea Chapin and Sally Wofford-Girand (Warner Books, February 2007) is a book of original essays by female writers about love, marriage and divorce. Most of these are short, and well-written, but while they are amusing as stories, the book's main attraction is the way it connects women to women, with powerful emotions that most of us have felt in some way or another, at some time or another. .........


Gaining by Aimee Liu (Warner Books, February 2007) is an attention-grabbing, often intimate look at the life and mindset of Ms. Liu , a recovering anorexic, and the primarily women (a few men too) who she has followed up with after a hiatus of a few decades. Her first book, "Solitare," was about her battle with anorexia, but this one is more like a Part 2, or a sequel.....

Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy by Anita H. Clayton with Robin Cantor-Cooke (Ballantine Books), could have been a dry discourse on female sexuality, but it is a surprisingly entertaining and empowering book about how why women settle for lackluster sex lives, even though they may be high-powered in all other aspects of their lives.....


Sex on the Brain by Daniel G. Amen, M.d. (Harmony Books, 2007)takes a more cerebral approach to the subject of better sex, with a serious, if somewhat clinical view on the subject matter, but it is no less interesting. The information is irresistible.....


A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman (Little Brown 2006) will not give you the secrets to a tidy desk, but it might make you re-think the costs and benefits of organization......

Welcome to Your Crisis by Laura Day (Little Brown 2006) confirms what I've been told most of my life, that out of adversity, comes opportunity. As it states on the back cover: "The moment your life falls, apart, it is also the moment your new life begins." ....

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