theWAHMmagazine Press Releases

Taylor, Michigan, January 16, 2008 — The new year heralded the Jan. 5 launch of theWAHMmagazine as the first and only content-driven digital magazine for work-at-home parents. A bi-monthly publication, the content is presented in a dynamic, interactive digital platform delivered by the technology of Zmags, a Denmark-based company that specializes in digital media. The digital platform makes theWAHMmagazine unlike any other publication or Web site geared towards work-at-home parents. Eschewing the Web-magazine format of article links, theWAHMmagazine adheres to print-magazine standards. Geared for work-at-home parents whether business owners, telecommuters, freelancers, artists or sales and marketing professionals, theWAHMmagazine is an eco-friendly publication about all of the aspects of life as a work-at-home parent.

 

Developed by business owner and work-at-home mom, Erika-Marie S. Geiss, theWAHMmagazine is designed to present topical issues relevant to the work-at-home parenting community from business management to parenting, relationships, leisure time, and health and fitness. Craig-Pepin Donat, the Fit Advocate and author of The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Waterside 2007), has signed on as theWAHMmagazine's health and fitness editor.

 

Unique features include the column "Voices," (with its interviews and profiles of noted successful work-at-home parents) and "Stories from the Trenches" (where readers can find fiction and creative non-fiction about the work-at-home parenting life). There is also a community forum where subscribers can discuss articles and anyone can network or chat. Subscribers access the magazine through a log-in/password-protected subscriber portal, which also gives them access to such bonus features as podcasts, Webinars and magazine archives.

 

Geiss launched theWAHMmagazine after noting the need for a one-stop information source for work-at-home parents. "There are so many of us working from home in one way or another, that it is often described as an 'industry,' but  I found that the quality of information geared to our industry not only varies, it is scattered widely. I wanted to see something more fulfilling and comprehensive." She adds, "Our industry needed its own voice—and one that also reached work-at-home dads, freelancers and telecommuters, and culled from the experiences of "retired" Baby-Boom work-at-home parents. I sought to fill this industry void and push the envelope for work-at-home parenting resources."

 

A freelance writer, editor and owner of Red Pencil Editing Services, Geiss and her husband (who telecommutes part of the week to his full-time job) are a work-at-home family in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. In addition to being the Editor-in-Chief of theWAHMmagazine, Geiss is also an art historian and published author. Her writing credits include The Passion of Christ (Publications Int'l, 2004), a contributing author of Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape (Nat'l Gallery Ottawa/MFA Boston, 2000) and articles in The News Herald, World Energy Monthly Review and Inkwell Newswatch (IN). The author of The Right Words for Any Occasion (Publications Int'l, forthcoming fall 2008) Geiss also produces theWAHMmagazine e-Newsletter and maintains the blog "Musings from the Mitten."

For additional information about theWAHMmagazine, visit www.thewahmmagazine.com. For a review copy of the premiere issue of theWAHMmagazine contact Ms. Geiss at press@thewahmmagazine.com. Published bi-monthly, theWAHMmagazine is an electronic serial publication produced digitally and available by subscription. The subscription cost is $24.00 per year. TheWAHMmagazine is the first and only content-driven digital magazine for work-at-home parents. The next issue goes live March 5, 2008.