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Established in and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday. Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook. Denise Enck Denise is Empty Mirror's founder and editor. You might also like:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Let's pretend you're a very lucky book.

You have been blessed with an editor with impeccable taste, a proofreader with an eagle eye, a printer whose inks are bright and true, a binder who checks his work not twice but thrice, and, most of all, an author who never, EVER, changes his mind. Now let's pretend you're kind of, well, an ordinary book. Your editor has two kids under the age of three at home and hasn't slept in six months; your proofreader had a couple too many at bingo last night; your printer sometimes mistakes the green ink for the blue, or vice-versa; your binder has so many jobs waiting in the queue that he considers it a moral victory when he manages to get the title page bound in somewhere near the front of the book; and your author just had a fight with her husband and, halfway through the print run, has decided to dedicate you, you poor abused, luckless tome, to the local cat rescue facility, instead.

The making, printing, binding, and distribution of a book is a complicated and collaborative project. Mistakes are, to put it mildly, made. Typos are hopefully caught and corrected midway through print runs. Printers run out of paper and switch to a different brand after only a few hundred copies have been run off. Dust jackets sometimes mysteriously come off the press with the wrong colors , or lacking a photo credit or, worse, a price.

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