Supporting The Reframe

As you may well know, every three months or so we have a short little "state of the newsletter" missive that covers what's up with me and The Reframe, and usually includes a shake of the tip jar. Well, here we are again.

State of the newsletter: It's good, you know? I like writing it. If you like reading it, I like that, too. Paid subscriptions are a little bit down, for whatever it is worth. Seems like times are getting harder, so it might make a fair bit of sense for this to be so. I'm glad that people who can't spare the money don't send me money they can't spare. I wouldn't like that.

Yet some people who can spare it do spare it. What an odd thing.

The newsletter is free. AND YET many readers support my work with a paid subscription. The paid member's version of The Reframe will be (a handful of members updates and offers aside) exactly the same as the unpaid version.

So why pay? Because while I like doing this, I also think there's value in it. And I also think people should be paid for the value of what they create. I think doing so encourages them to keep creating, and probably makes it a bit easier for them to do so.

Maybe you agree.

However, I'm aware some people can't afford to pay, so there will never be a paywall. Everyone gets the same newsletter. Those who pay help make this true for everyone.

If you can't pay or don't really see any value to this newsletter, do nothing! You're all set and I still love you very much, as far as you know.

But if you can afford to pay, and agree there's value to this newsletter, and you want to show that by paying, this is how you do that.

I think $10 monthly is fair. That's roughly $2.50 an essay, given a typical schedule of an essay a week. Why, you can't even get an individually-wrapped dill pickle at a gas station for that price anymore. You might not even be allowed to lick the wrapper for that. Even in the unprecedented case that I only manage say one essay in a month, it would still come to about 4 tenths of a penny per word. But listen; anything you want to pay is fine with me.

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If you can pay and choose to, thank you!

If you can pay but choose not to, I get it!

If you can't afford a subscription, don't sign up for one. I genuinely do not want you to! There are other things you can do to help me, if that's something you feel compelled to do. Maybe you'd want to preorder my upcoming book of essays, or maybe you'd like to keep it totally free and call your local library to ask them to order a copy. Or you could spread the word about my essays on whatever platforms you occupy. Or tell a friend who you think would enjoy/ benefit. Everything helps.

Either way, I'm going to go on writing these newsletters for as long as I want, and you're going to keep getting them for as long as you want. And if I stop, I presume many of you who pay stop paying.

And that's that.

A.R. Moxon's upcoming essay collection is Fighting in the Dark. He is also the author of the novel The Revisionaries and the essay collection Very Fine People, which are available in most of the usual places, and some of the unusual places. You can get his books right here for example. If he were here more of the day, he wouldn't twist around that way.