About My Table Magazine
My Table, Houston’s dining magazine, is published by Lazywood Press. It’s a different kind of publication: personal, quirky and specialized. Each issue offers readers the most complete information on the restaurants, chefs, shops, foods, trends, caterers, festivals and personalities that make the city’s lively culinary scene. John Mariani, the restaurant critic for Esquire magazine, calls My Table “both indispensable and a joy to read.” Order now!
Got a comment or question about My Table? Please contact us. We welcome queries from writers and illustrators.
About Advertising in My Table
Interested in advertising in My Table? Call one of our sales representatives, listed below.
Victoria Staff, advertising director
Phone 713-854-3328
Email vickie.staff@my-table.com
Jane Kremer, advertising sales
Phone 713-973-0207
Email jane.kremer@my-table.com
AD SIZES
Full page (bleed okay) is 9 1/8” x 11 13/16” (add 1/4” for trim on all sides for bleeds).
2/3 page vertical 4 7/8” x 9 7/16”
1/2 page horizontal is 7 1/2” x 4 1/2”
1/3 page vertical is 2 3/8” x 9 7/16”
1/3 page horizontal (square) is 4 7/8” x 4 1/2”
1/6 page vertical is 2 3/8” x 4 1/2”
1/6 page horizontal is 4 7/8” x 2 1/8”
CAMERA-READY ADS
BLACK & WHITE FORMAT To realize the highest reproduction quality throughout the magazine, we prefer ads submitted digitally, on CDs or via email, to our graphic designer, Jen Cooper (design@my-table.com). Acceptable file formats include PDF, Quark XPress, InDesign, Freehand and Illustrator files in Macintosh format. Graphics within ad layouts must be 100% scale and at least 350 dpi. Fonts must be provided if not converted to outline, and we recommend using only Postscript typefaces. If there are no gray tones, we accept a 600 DPI laser print. No negatives will be accepted. Please label all disks. Artwork cannot be returned.
COLOR FORMAT We accept color ads digitally (see Black & White Ad Format, above) and require a color proof also be provided. Original scans should be 300 DPI for photos, 600 DPI for line art. Customer is responsible for any additional charges from the printer for high-res scanning and placing of color materials. No separations, please.
NON-CAMERA-READY ADS
BLACK & WHITE FORMAT Recommended materials for submission include original black & white or color photographs, slides, transparencies or clean line art (a business card or letterhead is usually okay). Advertisers will be provided one emailed proof before the magazine goes to press.
COLOR FORMAT If you need assistance with the production of a color ad, we can refer you to one of My Table’s advertising designers. You will be billed separately for this work.
PMS, METALLIC COLORS PMS and metallic colors are available for an additional charge.
PRINTING/BINDING Sheet-fed offset/Saddle-stitch
INSERTS All inserts must be bound into the magazine. Postal regulations prohibit us from accepting catalogues, blow-in inserts and inserts bearing a bulk-mail indicia. Please call for pricing.
ISSUE DATES February-March, April-May, June-July, August-September, October-November and December-January.
DEADLINE Advertising deadlines are five weeks before the cover date. For example, the ad deadline for the August-September issue is June 24. The ad deadline for the October-November issue is August 24. Etc.
PAYMENT Advertising rates are net to My Table; agency commissions are in addition to published rates. All ads must be paid in full before going to press.
About Our Special Events
With each bimonthly issue, My Table magazine strives to be the first word on the vibrant restaurant scene we enjoy in Houston. We also aspire to honor individual excellence via The Houston Culinary Awards, our annual awards for culinary distinction. Founded in 1997, these 10 awards—including Restaurateur of the Year, Chef of the Year, Best Interior Design, Best New Restaurant, etc.—are presented annually in October. The voting is city wide, and the gala evening is always sold out.
In 2001, we became the co-presenter of the annual Caesar Salad Competition, one of the most entertaining (and hotly contested) food fights in Houston.
In 1998, My Table introduced Off The Eaten Path — A Series of Culinary Excursions and took 11 readers to New Orleans for a weekend of dining, private tours, wine tastings and a hands-on cooking lesson with Susan Spicer. In November 2000, we took 16 readers to Italy for cooking lessons and tastings with renowned author/teacher Diane Seed in both Rome and along the Amalfi Coast. And in January 2007, we took 16 culinary adventurers to Puebla, Mexico. Chef Hugo Ortega (of Hugo’s Restaurant, Houston) was our on-ground guide to dining, market shopping and cooking instruction.
The magazine also organizes numerous dinners and events. For example, in January 2002 we launched an 11-part dining series titled Around the World in Houston Restaurants. The purpose was to explore the varied ethnic cuisine offered in this international city. We even created “passports” and “visa stamps” for our diners. Our open-to-the-public tastings and seminars have included tastings of tequila, Kentucky bourbon, Burgundy wines, Armagnac and other spirits. In October 2002 we co-sponsored our first recipe contest, with Mathilde Liqueur. The lucky winner got a trip to Cognac, France!
Looking for a partner for a food-themed event? My Table knows food and understands Houston.
About Lazywood Press
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Lazywood Press was founded by Teresa Byrne-Dodge in 1994 in Houston, Texas. We are a small regional publisher dedicated to producing books and periodicals mostly—but not exclusively—about food and dining out. To date, we are best-known for publishing the award-winning My Table: Houston’s Dining Magazine. However, we are much more than that!
A few copies of Haiku-Sine are still available! This chunky little book features a collection of more than 200 food-themed haiku written “by Texans who Love to Eat & Feed Their Heads.” Charmingly illustrated by Shelby Watson, it will make you smile. It will make you hungry. Order now!
