It is my supreme pleasure to introduce my latest publishing project, Amabella Magazine. I’m so excited to share our introductory issue! This is a free digital magazine aimed for belly dancers at every stage in their journey. Amabella means “beautiful woman” in Latin, and the mission of this publication is to help you achieve your goals in the dance arts.
We’ve been working all spring to put together this first issue. Our magazine hit the digital stands on August first, and I couldn’t be more proud of our achievement.
I’ve always been a huge fan of magazines, especially on my favorite topic, belly dance. Over the many years that I’ve been involved in the belly dance world, I’ve subscribed to more than a dozen different publications. I’ve written for many and have even been featured on the cover of a few! As the costs have risen, and subscribers dwindled, many magazines have, sadly, gone out of print. So, I put a team together and we stepped into the breach to create a free digital magazine.
Read Amabella Magazine
OurEditorial Point of View
The core of the Amabella editorial team are the ladies I had the pleasure of working with on the book, “Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage.” International belly dance instructor Sara Shrapnell, the author of “Teaching Belly Dance” and faculty member of the Belly Dance Business Academy, joined me in brain storming our editorial point of view. Because of the nature of the internet, we decided that all the content in Amabella Magazine will be as evergreen as possible! What this means, is that articles and ads will not focus on events. Rather, the content will be focused on concepts, products, and technique.
Photographer and belly dance life styler Alisha Westerfeld, who I’ve worked with on many projects, suggested we include gallery space for dancers to share their art. Because Amabella is a digital magazine, when we include an image of a dancer, we can directly link to their website, blog, or other social media destinations. This is a great benefit for our writers, artists, dancers, and advertisers. And since Amabella Magazine will be located on the Issuu website for the duration, there is the potential for tremendous reach.
Learn more about our beautiful cover girl Basinah on her website.
Amabella Magazine Website
There is a truism in the world today: websites are never finished! We’re spending the next three months building up the Amabella Magazine website. Our new site will include our magazines, blog posts by editors and contributors, and information on how to work with us at Amabella. At the moment this blog post goes live, it’s pretty bare bones. But in the future, it will have more details about future publications, more interesting and informative blog posts, and an image gallery to flip through. There is much more to come in the fullness of time!
Subscribe to Amabella
Because we’re free and digital, there are three ways to subscribe.
Sign Up for our Mailing List: The first is to visit the Amabella Magazine website and sign-up for the newsletter. Our newsletter is our primary method for us to reach out and let you know when new publications will be available.
Use the Issuu Website: The second method is to sign up for an account on the Issuu.com website and create a reading list. As magazines on your list are released, the site will notify you via email. If you already use the Issuu website, be sure to add our magazine to your favorite reading stack! Issuu Website
Join our Facebook Group: The final way to find out about magazine releases and blog post -uploads. This is a great way to join in the conversation, contribute ideas, or ask questions about our content. Have a quick question? This is the place!
If you’ve made it to the end of this blog post – thank you so much for your time and supporting my projects! I hope that you will read and enjoy Amabella Magazine today, and in future issues.
Moving forward, we are releasing issues three times. We will be collecting content through November 1, 2017, and releasing our next issue, Amabeall V1 the first week of December.
I hope you enjoy Amabella Magazine!
Dawn Devine ~ Davina
August 4, 2017