BIRTHDAY

Elysian Fields is celebrating our 9th birthday on Tuesday, October 27.  We want to thank all of our writers and readers because it is YOU who make this site not only possible but a joy.  This month we also surpassed the 14,000 member mark!  We have 609 authors and close to 4,000 stories.  Quite a lot to be proud of and we are.

Megan, Susan and I (Pfeifferpack) are the current active administrators and we strive to keep this a friendly, encouraging site and also to keep it as transparent as possible.   In the interests of that transparency we want you to know that the site is paid up for the next two years thanks to all of you.  That also means the Paypal site (located by clicking on the Donate button on the bottom of the main menu) is now depleted.  Not to worry though because we have plenty of time to raise the needed amount when we need to pay again. 

There are some sites that ask for donations all the time and people wonder just” how much it costs to host this site anyway?” I’ve wondered at times myself.  So here are our current charges (all in U.S. dollars) and status:  the domain costs $21.37 a year.  We are paid for this year and next.  The Web host costs $167.70 a year and, like the domain it is paid for this year and next.  Thanks to your generosity we’ve managed to keep the site up and going.  If you would like that to continue I hope you will find it in your heart to chip in a bit over the next year so we can have a balance there to pay next time.  Absolutely NO money is touched from this PayPal account except for the charges I just listed.  Until it is needed, it sits there looking pretty (and comforting for your poor, literally, administrators).

On another note we are looking at staging another “event” likely in December.  The Challenge month was a great success bringing in lots of wonderful new stories and plenty of excitement.  With NaNoWrite taking up the time of many of our authors this November we decided not to schedule anything out of the normal and wait until December.  More news on that will be forthcoming.

Again, thank you all for making this our happy Spuffy home and keeping our fandom alive and well.

Kathleen