If you like Empty Mirror and would like to support it, thank you! Here are some ways to do that.
Support EM with a contribution
Empty Mirror is a run on a very tight budget. There’s no outside funding — EM runs on what comes out of my own very shallow pocket and occasional donations from readers. All contributions go toward the growing costs* of keeping Empty Mirror online. PayPal.me/emptymirrormag
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Empty Mirror would be nothing without its readers. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your interest and for your support.
warm wishes,
Denise
Editor
*Ongoing costs
Wondering what expenses EM incurs? Here are the major ones. Currently, income doesn’t come close to meeting expenses.
- domain names
emptymirrorbooks.com — plus .net & .org - webhosting
Given EM’s size and number of readers, we have a VPS, which provides more resources than a shared hosting account, but is also much more expensive. - two site backups
The site is backed up daily to AWS and also to an offline backup drive. This will be used if the site should ever become compromised. - hosting backup
The entire web hosting account is backed up weekly for easy restoration should something catastrophic happen to our webhost or to the account. - security software
Necessary to help prevent the situations noted above and others. - Copyscape Premium
- Submittable
Soon, I’d also like to upgrade our Submittable account to allow for more editors, readers, and submissions. Currently we’re limited to 200 free submissions per month. - Cloudflare
Cloudflare helps to keep EM’s pages secure and loading quickly. - Contributor payments. And, of course, eventually we’d like to be able to pay contributors (that would cost around $3000+/year, which isn’t in the cards at present).
