{"id":532,"date":"2009-02-09T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/brio-creator-and-editor-susie.html"},"modified":"2009-02-09T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:35:58","slug":"brio-creator-and-editor-susie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/brio-creator-and-editor-susie.html","title":{"rendered":"Brio Creator And Editor Susie Shellenberger Launches New Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SusieMag.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/SusieMag.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"71\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span> Nationally renowned speaker, author and creator of <em>Brio<\/em> magazine Susie Shellenberger has launched a new magazine for girls called <em>Susie.<\/em><br \/>\nShellenberger served as <em>Brio&#8217;s<\/em> editor for 19 years before publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/11\/focus-on-the-family-ceases-pub.html\" target=\"_blank\">Focus on the Family discontinued its teen ministry and ceased publication<\/a> last month. Focus also ceased publication of their guy&#8217;s magazine, <em>Breakaway.<\/em><br \/>\nShellenberger quickly made the decision to publish her own magazine after receiving many encouraging letters from Brio fans who also suggested the new publication be named after its editor.<br \/>\n<em>Susie<\/em> will debut its premier print issue this May and Shellenberger is determined to make it more appealing and relevant than current and past magazines ministering to Christian teen girls. With a main focus to help readers grow spiritually, the publication will additionally cover girl-significant topics including fashion, modesty, family, self-injury, eating disorders, relationships and more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll be interesting to see what direction Shellenberger goes with her new magazine.<em> Brio <\/em>has always been a great mag for teens, but Focus on the Family always had very strict, conservative guidelines for articles and photos. (I once did a story for the guy&#8217;s mag that quoted an artist talking about the movie &#8220;Dumb and Dumber.&#8221; I had to axe the quote because of the magazine&#8217;s strict &#8220;no promotion of PG-13 movies&#8221; policy. The magazine also had to airbrush out one of the band member&#8217;s lip ring for the cover photo.) Here&#8217;s hoping she can tackle more edgy subjects with the same biblical perspective she had with <em>Brio<\/em>. I know a lot of people miss the teen magazine.<br \/>\nA website supporting<em> Susie<\/em> with additional magazine information and feature content will be available mid March. Until then, you can keep up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/susieshellenberger.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">magazine and Shellenberger on her blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>RELATED POST<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/11\/focus-on-the-family-ceases-pub.html\" target=\"_blank\">Focus on the Family ceases publication of teen magazines Brio, Brio and Beyond, and Breakway<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. Just sign up for the RSS feed by going to the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; box on the right hand side of this blog and entering your email address.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally renowned speaker, author and creator of Brio magazine Susie Shellenberger has launched a new magazine for girls called Susie. 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