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As you may know, Affaire de Coeur has been bringing honest reviews, features, and stories to women for 28 years. With any business, care must be taken on where advertising dollars are spent. In the publishing industry, a highly competitive industry, an author or publisher require certain marketing tools to expand their client base, to expand readership. A business depends upon their advertising dollar to succeed. In this difficult economy the importance to advertise increases. It is necessary to have a well-established, dependable publication that will bring the results needed. The best way to receive the desired results is to use target advertising. AdC has a subscription base of approximately 75,000; our newsstand sales figures average 10-12,000 a month. Our website consistently averages 5000+ unique hits per day. Our readers return on a regular basis, their interest in our reviews, contests, features, and other promotions offer consistency in a skittish market. Our faithful readers will help your advertising dollar go further. A recent survey on our website asked readers the following: “With things so difficult financially, will your family continue to budget for books and reading materials?” Our survey showed with overwhelming results that people would continue to purchase these materials. Your best value without a doubt is with Affaire de Coeur. While there is no doubt that the market is not what it was, it is encouraging to know that our faithful readers are still looking at us and still reading! AdC recognizes that the economy is affecting the individual author. While budgets have gone down, the need for advertising has essentially increased with a highly competitive market and consumers having to be more careful with their purchases. Group advertising is not a new way for an author to advertise, in the past it was up to the authors completely to get together and come up with other authors and split the cost. We are not only beginning a new way for these groups to be formed, we have added a staff member who will be working exclusively with authors, as well as working on specials and promotions to assist them in creative and affordable grouping of their advertising. Please contact Pam Ackerson at authorads@affairedecoeur.com and she will do all that is possible to work with you and/or one of our groups. With all of the talk about the group advertising, remember the value of individual advertising. Affaire de Coeur offers advertising for all budgets. We have full-color and black and white single issue and multi issue rates for print or online. Do you have a special announcement? We can do that too, along with book covers, banners, and tags for your website. Our advertising department can also do the layouts and designs for your personal advertising campaign if you do not already have it done. For more information, please visit our advertising page at Affairedecoeur.com. Our goal is to give you the best and easiest way to invest in yourself. All published authors want to increase their book sales. However, many do not always know the best way to gain the advertising attention they need. We can help you increase your sales. Contract and non-contract ads are available. Credit card payments can be made through Paypal and are subject to a 5% fee. Advertising Rates Please contact us and we will be happy to help. Pam Ackerson authorads@affairedecoeur.com Bonny Kirby at advertising@affairedecoeur.com www.affairedecoeur.com    Affaire de Coeur Advertising Policy Contact: Pam Ackerson at authorads@affairedecoeur.com Bonny Kirby at advertising@affairedecoeur.com or call 1- 817-373-3496 Affaire de Coeur will accept electronic ads in most formats. .jpg, .tiff or .pdf would be preferred and all ads MUST be submitted in 300 dpi. All sizing of the ads must be done by the advertiser to avoid an additional layout charge of $150.00. We know that authors and publishers face budget crunches every day. To assist in this Affaire de Coeur has kept our prices reasonable and offer many options and payment plans. Discounts for multiple issues are included. To compliment your ad and review we also offer interviews and articles. If you would like to have an interview let us know 3 months in advance so it can appear in the same issue as your review and ad. We accept articles at any time; they must be submitted 3 months in advance. All articles must receive approval on subject matter and content. Contract and Copy Regulations Ad space is reserved on a first-come/first-served basis. The advertiser who submits a signed contract first will be given first choice of advertising space. Acceptance on all advertising is subject to publishers approval and agreement by the advertiser to indemnity and protects the publisher from loss or expense on claims or suits based upon the contents of the subject matters of such advertisements. This includes, but is not limited to suits or liable, plagiarism, copyright infringement and unauthorized use of a person's name or photograph. Cancellation is not accepted after the closing dates. Cancellation of any portion of a contract voids all rate and position protection. Charges for difficult composition, artwork, engraving, etc., will made to advertiser at currently prevailing rates. Policies and Commissions Affaire de Coeur is issued bi-monthly. Closing date is six weeks before publication. In the event of non-payment within 30 days, the full rate (as listed plus 15%) is then due and payable. All payments are net 30 days. All discounts are void if payment is not received within 30 days of publication. Affaire de Coeur does not pay commission fees to an advertiser representative. Said fee must be obtained from advertiser. Production Charges The prices herein are for print ready ads. Copy requiring reduction or enlargement other than defined by contract may be charged per ad. 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