TV Guide has a recurring piece that's called, "The Best New Shows You're Not Watching" or something similar. Well, I'm not sure who is responsible for bringing interesting magazines to the forefront, but have I got one for you!
Hot Psychology is a relatively new venture that I have personally been a part of since February 2005. In that time, I've been challenged as a writer, trying new subjects I might not tackle on my own. I also have been very impressed with the content, and am jazzed at the thought of being published along side such talent.
The tag line of the publication is, “Discussing the issues that make we humans, human.” Seems simple enough, but as anyone who has worked in the publishing industry knows, making a magazine click is not simple. Advertising, subscribing, marketing, and more — are frequent headaches that are worth enduring to make publications like this one come alive.
The Grand Rapids, MI based publication has been snagging a few interesting interviews like Minnesota Twins players Joe Mauer and Tori Hunter, and communications expert, Dr. John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. However, Hot Psychology still needs to reach more advertisers and subscribers.
Please check out the site and show a little love for one of the “Best New Magazines You’re Not Reading.”
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
thanks MKW, perhaps a little more specific info on the content and parameters of the mag would be helpful?
2 - Mary K. Williams
yes Eric, I mean to include the demographic, the 18-35 age group. As are as parameters go, I'm not sure I follow. I guess I'm assuming the link would suffice.
Anyway, thanks for this opportunity.
3 - Lynn Schibeci
Thanks for telling us about it. Actually, I'm 49 and still think it sounds interesting. What would be good in your piece would be a few clues to typical kinds of stories. Anyway, the website is good, as you indicate and good luck with it. I'll certainly look out for it. I mightn't be in the demographic but thinking my age has never been my forte :)
4 - Bob A. Booey
This sounds like pop pseudo-psychology crap. All you need to know is that they're interviewing that hack (wealthy, but a hack) John Gray, who got his bogus PhD from an unaccredited Caribbean mail-order outfit, and has misled millions of dupes with his "Mars and Venus" nonsense.
Anyone who reads books like "Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus," "Chicken Soup for the Soul," Dr. Phil, or motivational/inspirational crap like Tony Robbins needs to really think about how such manipulative, easy statements of the obvious and pandering platitudes really make your life any better.
That is all.
5 - Mary K. Williams
Lynn,
age is just a number, right? Thanks for your input
6 - Mary K. Williams
Bob -
Not sure which part you were referring to as being 'crap', but inspiration comes in many forms, different kinds work for different people.
Just trying to give a worthy venture, and the hard work done by those involved a shot.
Thanks for your input.
7 - BRICKLAYER
Aw crap, I thought it said "Hot Psychologists Magazine". Now that would be hot.
8 - ClubhouseCancer
You might start by fixing the awful grammar mistake in your magazine's tag line.
We is a subject pronoun. What is needed here is the object pronoun, us. The phrase us humans is the object (the noun being acted on).
"Discussing what makes us humans human."
But really, if I were to encounter this sentence as an editor, I'd rewrite. The repetition of "humans/human" is not immediately graspable to the reader. It catches the eye, but for the wrong reasons: 1. It looks like it might be a typo, and
2. You have to look at it again just to figure out what it means.
What's wrong with:
"Discussing what makes humans human," which doesn't solve the repetition but is at least grammatical, if you're married to this "making humans human" business.
or "...what makes us human?"
A tag line should be short and clear and never create even a tiny bit of confusion. Because of its confusing structure, I'm not crazy about yours and would rethink it entirely. But I'm a smart-ass editor type.
Good luck!
9 - Eric Olsen
like Dr. Melfi? when she was younger and thinner?
10 - ClubhouseCancer
Lillith Sternin-Crane?
11 - BRICKLAYER
How about Dr. Melfi vs. Dr. Crane, that would be hot...wait a minute, I'm getting my threads mixed up.
12 - BRICKLAYER
woops, please accept my aplogies, as I meant Dr. Melfi vs. Dr. Sternin-Crane. Dr. Melfi vs. Dr. Frasier Crane would not be hot, it would be gross. That must have been a Freudian slip on my part. Freudian slips are hot. Do you remember that one episode of Cheers, where Lillith tries to seduce Sam while wearing a satin slip? That was hot.
13 - Mark Sahm
It is interesting how almost all celebrity psychologists (i.e. Phil, Gray) receive a lot of criticism for their credentials, that somehow fame has distorted their believability. Would you agree?
14 - BRICKLAYER
Yes. Dr. Phil is a horrid charlatan. Anyone who would put an ounce of credence into his blathering needs to have their head examined by a physchologist. Prefferably a hot one.
15 - Bob A. Booey
They HAVE no credentials, Mark Sahm. Especially John Gray, who obtained his PhD in correspondence courses from an unaccredited offshore "college" in the Caribbean. At least Dr. Phil studied something somewhere in America at a school with brick buildings.
Mary: tell your hot psychologists to work harder, study, and get some actual, credible science in that rag. Pop psychology is frivolous, at worst dangerous, and makes way too much money already. There's nothing inspiring about it.
That is all.
16 - Mark Sahm
I'm sure all of us would like to be pulling in their salaries, Bob... including yourself.
Maybe I should have gone to the Caribbean then instead of a brick building school. I might not be sitting in a cubicle every day.
17 - Mary K. Williams
Bob, I guess you missed the point of my post. I am not advocating John Gray, Phil McGraw, or Tony Robbins. I dont mind them either. I suppose if one dosn't agree with their POV's there's always somewhere else to look, right?
Please understand that Hot Psychology is not a medical or scientific journal, just a 'start' up consumer magazine that was glad to have some celebrity interviews in it's first few months.
18 - Leslie
The way y'all open your TRAP!
No wonder! Y'all's been YAPPING all ya life in a cubicle. Good luck to your cubicleness.....
19 - Mary K. Williams
Leslie-
Regarding your comment -- I read, and re-read, and re-read again, and I'm sorry, maybe you have me confused with someone else, because I have no clue what you meant!?
20 - Abolfazl Zohoorian
Dear Sir/Madam,
I authorized a book that is called : Personality Evaluation System.
I designed a new system to evaluate personality by using mathematics ,statistics,modeling ,... .
I invited you to e-mail me
21 - Jon Abbey
John Grey graduated from a California State Approved School called Columbia Pacific University. He has a Ph.D from a legal valid degree granting institution. The school was ultimately closed as a less than wonderful school, yet when he was a student there they were producing some legitimate psychotherapists in the state of California. To my knowledge John Grey has no license save a driver's license. He did attend a number of regionally accredited schools, none of which he graduated from.
22 - Mary K. Williams
Jon, thanks for the comment. Funny how people get caught up in one thing (in this case - the legitimacy of Dr. Gray) instead of paying attention to the crux of the article.
And now I need to report that the HP mag closed it's doors in the fall of 2007. Well, we had a good run. : )