Let The Magazine Editors Know What You Want
Some of you wanted to know which publications are refusing to run reviews of Parenting Beyond Belief. I contacted Dale McGowan and he responded that the publisher will not specify which ones actually refused and which ones just haven’t answered. Naturally, there are relationships to maintain and that is understandable.
That doesn’t mean we can’t help. Here is what Dale said we could do:
A polite expression of curious interest combined with excitement for the appearance of such a reasonable and respectful book — that’s the ticket. Something like this:
Dear Mr. Windybottom,
I just came across a great new parenting book and wondered if you’d heard about it. It’s called “Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion” and is co-written by a number of prominent authors ranging from Richard Dawkins to a Unitarian minister. Early reviews are praising it as evenhanded and down-to-earth, not an angry screed. As a longtime reader of [insert mag name here], I’d love to see a review of this book in your pages. Would you happen to know if that’s in the works? I look forward to hearing from you!
Regards,
Sandy SubscriberAs for the list of mags I’m most eager to break into, here’s my top ten:
Parents Magazine: www.parents.com
Parenting Magazine (circ. over 2 million): www.parenting.com
Informed Parent – includes prominent book reviews: www.informedparent.com
Brain, Child – very good content fit: www.brainchildmag.com
Family Resource.com – prominent reviews: www.familyresources.com
Gay Parent – many gay parents are secularists: www.gayparentmag.com
Cookie Magazine: www.cookiemag.com
New Parent Magazine: www.newparent.com
Wondertime Magazine: www.wondertime.go.com
Mothering Magazine: www.mothering.comI’d be very grateful for help in gently contacting the editors at these publications. Thanks Noell, and thanks to your readers!
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April 24th, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Will do! Thanks for the list!
April 26th, 2007 @ 7:58 am
Amy Roberts
Assistant Editor
Parenting magazine
135 W. 50th Street, 3-141A
New York, NY 10020-1393
amy_roberts@timeinc.com
Amy contacts me occasionally for comments from the Mom Panel. I figured we could send her a few polite emails!
April 26th, 2007 @ 8:05 am
This is a contact from Wondertime Magazine:
Dozois, Michelle, Michelle.Dozois@disney.com
April 26th, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Looks like I’ve managed to get PBB into the queue for a Book Discussion over at Mother Talkers. Guess that means I have to make the time (ha) to finish reading it now, right?
April 26th, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
Wow, you all are awesome! That is so cool!
April 27th, 2007 @ 6:34 am
Contacting magazines sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
April 27th, 2007 @ 10:03 am
It’s official!
PBB is the June selection.
This site gets a pretty heavy traffic load, too — one of the authors (off now with a newborn) is the wife of THE Kos of dailykos.com.
Hooray!
May 2nd, 2007 @ 8:56 pm
It’s hard to conceive of a more blatant falsehood than the perennial assertion of a connection between adherence to a religious belief system and morality. Obviously any large group of people - Christians, atheists, Jews, Muslims, people with red hair - will run the full moral spectrum.
I doubt there’s ever been a president who’s invoked God-talk more than Dubya. The measure of a persons morality is conduct.
May 14th, 2007 @ 1:11 am
It’s like a bunch of teenagers getting into mischief and getting into trouble and I (as an adult) say “Hay! your parents are going to be very upset at all of you when they find out what you’re doing.”
The teenagers response is “F$#@ you dork, go tell someone who gives a crap” and “you liar, a$#hole”
You are all shooting the messenger, according to the Bible there is no distinction between atheists and satanists. Please don’t believe what I am telling you, look it up yourself. Does that mean I have no compassion by stating that? Does that mean I don’t care enough for all your well being to tell you that our Father will be very upset at your wickedness (again according to the Bible)? Did I really hit a nerve? You all seem to be fine and tolerate buddhism, muslims or yes even satenism but when it comes to Jesus you get a deep hatred foaming at the mouth and slander whoever brings up the name Jesus Christ.
Is it a toothache you all have? I am touching it saying “hay that one there (press) looks black” and you all scream “OWWWW” in pain. I did not make up the Bible but the atheist experience people (as well as you) are declaring WAR against God by being public activist against him. I am merely (as a concerned human brother) pointing out that if you don’t address that tooth then it will infect your whole body and turn gangrenous and you will perish. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11
I have told the atheist experience people many times as they were slandering me to never take my word for it that they could look it up themselves in the Bible, to do the research. I pointed out the verses that I was addressing and giving an adequate debate. What was the response? More ad hominem fallacies and they came back with the troll comment or calling me stupid or pathetic and such. To me it is just sad to waste good minds to pride and destruction for being like little brat teenagers.
You must know by now that there is accountability in nature and the universe. If you jump out the window you will go splat because of the law of gravity. If you try to live with grizzlies or lions because they are so cute, you will get shredded because you are breaking the boundaries of nature. If you take your mask off underwater you will drown because of conditions that are not suitable for sustaining life for humans. If you take your helmet off in deep space you will implode because of the laws of pressure and physics and such. So if there are so many laws to follow why are you all ignoring God’s law?
You will be held accountable for your actions and in my opinion it fits for the conditions that surround us. That is why we don’t rape children, because it is wrong to us in our hearts. The atheist experience people tried to explain it was because society said it was wrong and that was it. Isn’t that absurd to you? So I tried to reason with them but they ended up blocking me and giving out my IP address to the world. So be it, we move on, but we don’t have forever here on earth. My urgency and enthusiasm is not to harm but to warn as a friend. Would you let your friend get behind a wheel after it’s apparent that he is very drunk and will possibly hurt himself or worse, others? They are reckless and they know it, and so do you if you search your heart. I love you enough to take your keys, punch me if you must because of your drunken rage but, deep in your heart you know what is at stake here.
For Him,
Dan
May 20th, 2007 @ 2:05 am
Oops I meant hey not hay
May 25th, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
Is the PBB book anti-religion or just pro-A/A? There is a difference between the two. The latter takes a “live and let live” attitude towards those with a different worldview, while the former is just another form of ugly religious intolerance.
As a Christian who believes in tolerance, I would find it troubling if parenting magazine are censoring the PBB simply because it’s pro-A/A. However, if the book bashes religion than I believe they are doing the correct thing.
The fact that the PBB book includes a segment from Richard Dawkins makes me suspect it falls into the latter category
June 18th, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
Why would the theists posting here mind if this book is publicized in a general-interest parenting magazine? Even if PBB “bashes religion?”
June 18th, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
Why would the theists posting here mind if this book is publicized in a general-interest parenting magazine? Even if PBB “bashes religion?”
June 22nd, 2007 @ 11:37 am
Dan, just a minor point here. You said “If you take your mask off underwater you will drown because of conditions that are not suitable for sustaining life for humans. ” The mask has nothing to do with it. You can scuba dive or swim all you like without a mask. Even down at 100 ft. If you lose your regulator at 100 ft, well then you’ll need to make your way to the surface slowly. But still you will survive if you keep your cool. Perhaps, just like with the mask, you are giving credit to the wrong thing for protection of life.
June 26th, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Crimson Wife - I know it has been a month since you posted, but what you said about Richard Dawkins struck a cord with me. Where have you seen him “bash religion”? He doesn’t do that. If he “bashes” anything, it is the people who follow blindly without asking questions. I was told when I was 8 years old to stop asking questions and just believe. If God is real, great. How do I hurt him by not believing in him. If he isn’t, great. I haven’t lost time and energy and precious resources in the worship of a non-existent person. However, I do thank you in not “bashing” those of us at this blog. Sometimes I wonder what people would be like if they just stepped out of their lives and looked at people in general…we are not bad if we do not “believe”. What is horrible is when people force their beliefs on others…kind of like what Dan seems to be doing - of course, that is my opinion.
July 7th, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Thanks for the links!
January 30th, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
Noell:
I added your book to my site; I still not sure where it belongs, since it’s about doing the next right thing and being of service to the ones you love.
Thanks for carving time out of your life to share this material with us; ditto for all those who took time to sit down and chew words with you for a while.
May your heart be filled with peace,
Big Ed
January 30th, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Noell:
I added your book to my Redneck Recovery site; I’m still not sure where it belongs, since it’s about doing the next right thing and being of service to the ones you love.
Thanks for carving time out of your life to share this material with us; ditto for all those who took time to sit down and chew words with you for a while.<
May your heart be filled with peace,
Big Ed