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Happy
July to You All!
Summer
is here--time for vacations, cookouts,
and camping with your favorite women
friends! Summer is also a perfect
time for an all-women cruise, so
be sure to check out the vacation
specials from our Lesbian Travel
page here: www.amazingdreamspublishing.com/lesbiantravel.html.
A
NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER:
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Just
received this Email and
thought I'd share:
Message:
I love your site because
it's given me confidence
and a higher self-esteem.
I know these things have
to come from within, but
it does help to read wonderful
things about same-sex
lovers and partners.
I am a woman, in her 50's,
in Australia, and I am
very much in love with
a woman, of the same age,
living in New Zealand.
I have not come out to
anyone, but my partner.
I have three children,
living away from home.
I am looking forward to
a future with this woman,
but I also have to be
truthful with my friends
and family... As you can
imagine, this is daunting.
Thank you; thank you,
for your amazing site!
Notes
like this remind me of why
we do what we do, and I
invited her to join our
Support For Lesbians Coming
Out Group and the Australia
Networking Group.
Through all the crazy stuff
that happens online, and
believe me, there are days
when I've almost thrown
in the towel from the sheer
stress of dealing with it,
there is one thing that
I know for sure: if it wasn't
for the Internet and the
amazing contributions from
the members of our support
and networking groups, we
could not help women coming
out worldwide.
That is the gift that I
never imagined when I decided
to open Amazing Dreams Publishing
as an online company. With
very little money or support,
and pretty much just a wing
and a prayer, I did what
I was led to do, and I know
that nothing can stop us
now!
Last June we had 160 members
in our Support Group, and
now we have over 500! The
networking groups have gone
from 370 members to over
1700 members, and more and
more women are joining us
each and every day. AMAZING!
Just wanted to say thanks
to all of you for sticking
with us through thick and
thin, and making both our
website and our groups one
of the greatest online places
for lesbian, bi, and questioning
women IN THE WORLD!
Tracey
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JUNE
WEB STATS
Amazing Dreams is still doing great
for summer, with over 12,000 more
visits from separate users and 547,655
more access than June of 2005. Because
of you spreading the word about
what we do here, we are reaching
thousands of women worldwide.
AND
SPEAKING OF SPREADING THE WORD
. . .
We have had many women email us
that we are the "Best Kept
Secret on the Internet" and
they are so happy they found us.
Our website has grown into something
really powerful for our community,
and we are ready to no longer
be "The Best Kept Secret,"
but to become known as ONE OF
THE BEST WEB SITES FOR LESBIAN
AND BISEXUAL WOMEN WORLDWIDE!
Positive word of mouth is the
best publicity for any company,
and we are asking for your help
to spread the word about Amazing
Dreams Publishing and the over
1,000 free services we provide
for women on our website.
Helping us to help other women
is easy to do, and there are may
ways you can lend a hand:
-
Send Free
Ecards to your
friends. We now have over 850
designs--something for just
about everyone. Every time an
Ecard is sent out, the lucky
person who receives the Ecard
usually visits our website and
sends an Ecard in return. Once
a new visitor sees our amazing
artists, and our huge selection
of incredible work, she is sure
to come back whenever she needs
to send a little happiness!
- Mention
what Amazing Dreams Publishing
is doing for Our Community in
your online groups and blogs,
and send emails to your friends
that include our website link:
http://www.amazingdreamspublishing.com
- Have
you read our Coming Out Guide
or our Sex Tips Guide? Positive
5 Star reviews on Amazon really
help with our book sales, and
you can mention the free services
we provide for women in the
reviews! A lot of people don't
realize that the more positive
reviews we get on Amazon, the
higher our books are ranked,
and the more women will be encouraged
to read them. The more women
who read our books, the more
find out about our free services,
and the more women we can help
worldwide! To find out how to
write anonymous, 5 Star Reviews
for our books on Amazon CLICK
HERE
- Do
you have your own website? A
great way to help us is to exchange
links with our website. Just
use our Contact
Form to send
us a paragraph about your website,
and we will list your comments
and your link in our new What
Our Loyal Supporters are Saying
About Us section.
Here's our standard paragraph
for linking back to our website:
Amazing Dreams Publishing has
over 1,000 free services for
women worldwide, which includes
a free online support group
for lesbians and bisexual women
who are coming out. We also
feature a Coming Out section
on our website that lists over
100 online resources; 58 lesbian/bi
women networking groups; over
850 free nonpornographic Ecards
designed by amazing artists;
the top 75 lesbian movie reviews;
a GLBT sports column by Patricia
Nell Warren; and the daily GLBT
news headlines. For more information,
please visit our website here:
http://www.amazingdreamspublishing.com
Because we have very high rankings
in the main search engines,
exchanging links not only helps
our website, it will really
help your website too!
- Join
the Amazon
Affiliate Program
and sell our Coming
Out and Sex
Tips Guides on
your website. The Amazon Affiliate
Program is free to join, and
you can make a commission from
everything you sell from your
own website.
- And
last but not least, purchase
gifts for your friends, or yourself,
from our affiliate stores. We
now have a Lesbian
Bookstore that
features our books and others;
Lesbian
Travel Deals
with Orbitz and Olivia--great
cruises with all women for that
perfect getaway with your special
someone! Lesbian
Discount Flower Store
which has beautiful flowers
sent directly from the growers;
Discount
Magazine Subscriptions
up to 75% off the newsstand
price!
Lesbian/Bi
Pride Store--over
2,000 items perfect to show
the rest of us that you are
part of the LGBT Family; Lesbian
Commitment Jewelry Store--gorgeous
custom jewelry made especially
for us! Lesbian
DVD and Video--monthly
specials on DVD and videos if
you sign up for a free account;
Lesbian
and
Fantasy
Women posters
and Lesbian
Magnets--always
some kind of sale going on at
this store; and our Lesbian
Sex Tips Toy store,
that has over 5,000 sensual
products to choose from!
NEW
NEWS
This month we have a new LGBT
Sports Column about Gay Cowboys
and Rodeo from Patrician Nell
Warren; beautiful new Ecard designs
by Karin; and 15 wonderful Ecards
by our newest artist, Robert A.
Maguire.
Robert was a very famous book
cover artist in the 1950's and
he did a lot of beautiful covers
of both women and lesbians. His
daughter, Lynn Maguire, now owns
the rights to his work, and she
has put together a wonderful website
that has prints, T-shirts, and
cards featuring his beautiful
illustrations. The T-shirts will
be great to wear to any lesbian
or pride function, and the cards
are just campy good fun! Lynn
Maguire is really trying to keep
her father's legacy alive, so
support her mission if you can,
and tell her that Amazing Dreams
sent you her way!
For more information and links
to our new services, see the New
Free Services section below.
MAKE
$20,000! CASTING CALL FOR NONTRADITIONAL
FAMILY:
We received this today, so thought
we would pass it along:
Looking
for nontraditional family for
TV. Make $20,000:
My name is Jodi Friedman, and
I am a casting producer for
ABC television and the show
"Wife Swap." I would
like to feature a family on
our show who is a non-mainstream,
nontraditional family and share
their way of life.
In case you are unfamiliar
with the show, the premise of
"Wife Swap" is to
take two different families
and have the mom's switch place
to experience how another family
lives for six days. Half of
the week, mom lives the life
of the family she is staying
with. The other half, she introduces
a "rule change" where
she implements rules and activities
that her family has. It's a
positive experience for people
to not only learn, but teach
about other families and other
ways of life. (This is an ABC/Disney
family production, so families
wouldn’t have to worry
about the show shedding a negative
light on them or poking fun,
that is not AT ALL what our
show is about.) Families featured
on the show receive $20,000.
Each family should consist of
two parents, and at least one
child between the ages of 5-17.
Thank you and I hope to hear
from you soon!
Jodi Friedman
Casting Producer
ABC TV/ RDF Media
She
didn't specify if the adults in
the family need to be male and
female, or if they can be female
and female, but we are thinking
that she is looking for really
nontraditional, like Goth or BDSM
parents. You may have a better
chance at getting an interview
if you really stand out from the
crowd in some way. If you are
willing to give it a shot, send
a paragraph about your nontraditional
family, along with your contact
information and email address
to:
wifeswaptvshow@amazingdreamspublishing.com
and we will forward the information
to her.
NOTE: All information sent through
Amazing Dreams Publishing will
be kept completely confidential.
OUR SUPPORT
AND NETWORKING GROUPS
Our Lesbian/Bi
Woman Support for Lesbians Coming
Out Group now has
over 500 members from all over
the world.
Our
Lesbian
Networking Groups
are doing great, and several have
had their first get-togethers
at picnics, BBQs, and Pridefests!
Here
is an email from one of our moderators
about their first cookout with
the networking members:
Good
Evening Everyone,
Today was our group BBQ which
was held at B and R's house. For
those of you who couldn't make
it, let me just say that you ALL
MISSED A FANTASTIC TIME!!!!!!!!!!
Let me start by thanking B and
R again for hosting the party.
PJ and I had a blast!
It was a wonderful day
of good food, good friends, and
good fun! We all just sat around
and talked and laughed a lot,
especially at the fur-babies I
think the highlight of the day
was when PJ was teasing our boy,
Prince, with a piece of garlic
bread that had brisket on it...
aaaaaaaaaaand, Prince decided
that going under or around the
table was too much work, so he
decided to jump from the ground
UP AND OVER THE TOP of the table,
landing in the middle of it! I
am still laughing about that one!
Thank goodness PJ was quick enough
to grab his harness at chest level,
or his paws would have ended up
in the middle of all the food
that was left on the table!
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THAT ANYONE
WHO MISSED THE BBQ TODAY MISSED
A FABULOUS TIME!!!!!!
We
just wanted to say a huge THANK
YOU to everyone who has supported
our web site and helped our efforts
with both the Networking and Support
Groups. A few of our groups are
still on the quiet side, and we
have seen that the groups are what
the members make them.
If you are a real go-getter and
want to help network with other
women in your state,
the following groups still need
a moderator: AK, AR, BALTIMORE,
CA , Canada, CT , DC, DL, HI, IL,
IN, LA, MA, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM,
NV, NY, OK, OR, OZ, PR, SD, TN,
USA, WA, WI, WY. If you'd like to
volunteer some time to moderate
your state's networking group, just
visit our Networking
Group page, click
on your state, register as a member,
and send an email to the group owner,
with the name of the group you would
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New Free Services
and Ecards
at Amazing Dreams Publishing
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NEW
ECARDS BY ROBERT A. MAGUIRE
Welcome to the world of the acclaimed
paperback artist Robert A. Maguire.
Through his unique perspective
you can visit the art noir world
of 1950's murder mysteries and
juvenile delinquency novels. Perhaps
a visit to the world of "twilight
love" would intrigue you,
as depicted in his provocative
but tasteful lesbian cover art.
Mr. Maguire is on any paperback
lover's short list of favorite
artists. In his fifty years, he
produced over 600 book covers.
Our website features 100 of the
most memorable ones from the fifties
and sixties, along with many of
the photos used for the covers.
We also have T-shirts, prints,
and cards available of many of
his illustrations.
To
see more of this great artwork,
or for prints and T-shirts featuring
the work of Robert A. Maguire,
please visit his website
, or his Ecard
Page to send beautiful
free Ecards..
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NEW
ECARDS BY KARIN
"When looking at my paintings,
I challenge the viewer to see
new perceptions," says Karin.
"Each painting is a metaphor
to view life situations from different
angles. My paintings are transformational,
guiding people in their healing
journey." Samples of Karin's
paintings are featured in the
Art Guidance Cards, which are
available as a healing tool in
the ONLINE self-guided programs,
and as a visual coaching tool
for professionals at www.GuidanceCards.com.
Visit
Karin's
website to see all
of her beautiful artwork, or her
Ecard Page
to send beautiful free Ecards.
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NEW
LGBT SPORTS COLUMN
By Patrician Nell Warren
Real
Gay Cowboys
"As "Brokeback Mountain"
hit mainstream movie theaters,
TLC launched a TV series about
rodeo. "Beyond the
Bull" profiles world champion
bullriders as regular guys who
are belt-buckle deep in wives,
kids, girlfriends and groupies.
Was this a heterosexist propaganda
ploy timed to counter the hit
movie’s gay cowboys?
Especially 20-year-old Jack Twist,
the gay rodeo rider played by
Jake Gyllenhaal? Yup, it’s
time to talk about rodeo and the
gay people in it. . .
READ
MORE
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NEW
What Our Loyal Supporters are
Saying About Us SECTION
Many
people have emailed us about our
website, and we've gathered together
4 pages of your comments. If you
have a comment you would like
to share, or information about
your own website and what you
are doing, just use our Contact
Form to send us
a paragraph about your website,
and we will list your comments
and your link in our new section.
To see
what other people are saying about
us CLICK
HERE
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LGBT
WEDDING UPDATES AT AMAZING DREAMS
PUBLISHING
San
Francisco: "Today in New York
we see the total wholesale abandonment
of the historic role of the judiciary
to protect the rights of the minority
from the tyranny of the majority.
Instead of properly determining
that all New Yorkers are entitled
to equal protection under the State
Constitution, the New York Appeals
Court has taken the position that
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
New Yorkers are only entitled to
the civil rights that the popular
opinion of the day permits,"
said Davina Kotulski, Ph.D. Executive
Director of Marriage Equality, USA
and Author of Why
You Should Give A Damn About Gay
Marriage. Kotulski
and her partner, Molly McKay, have
been working to secure the right
to marry for almost ten years. "Without
the courts protecting civil rights,
we would not be the great nation
that we are today. Women would not
have the right to vote, segregation
would still be the law of the land
in many states, and interracial
marriage would be illegal. Today,
the Statue of Liberty's torch burns
dimmer as the promise of 'with liberty
and justice for all' was denied
her citizens."
Read more: GLBT
Wedding Updates Page.
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NEW
COMING OUT RESOURCES
We've added more resources to
our coming out section including
information on the following:
Helping your family understand;
Books to help your parents, family,
and friends; Other books to help
you and others; Organizations
that fight for our rights; and
Religious Issues and LGBT People.
Click
Here For More Information
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