Category: Site Announcements

A Note on my Affiliate Programs

As you guys saw a couple of days ago, I am now on the Amazon Affiliate program.  So if you happen to be shopping on Amazon and want to support me a little, click one of the links at the end of my book reviews.  It doesn’t matter whether or not you buy the book because Amazon gives me a small percentage of everything you buy.

I have joined the Powell’s affiliate program and am quite happy with the percentage they pay out (which is twice what Amazon’s is).  They’re a great independent bookstore so I signed up for their affiliate program and will be adding a Powell’s link at the end of every review.

I have also applied to be an affiliate for AbeBooks, a site I shop quite frequently because of its large volume of used books.  When/If I get approval from them I’ll also be adding AbeBooks links at the bottom of my reviews.

Just so you guys know!  And thank you for any support you throw my way through these programs.

I Joined the Amazon Affiliate Program

After getting the offer to monetize some of my reviews from Penny Sansevieri and asking for your feedback, it was mentioned yet again that I should probably join the Amazon Affiliate program.  It has been mentioned several times before but I just didn’t make time to do it.  So today I made the time and joined up.

In addition to joining, all of my reviews from 2014 and 2015 now feature the new affiliate links.  So if you’re buying something off Amazon and would like to throw a little bit of support my way, just click on one of the links and go shopping.  Even if you don’t buy what I directly link to, anything you buy on the site within 24 hours of using that link gets me a little percentage.

Thank you guys so much!  As an example, here’s a link to one of my all-time favourite books: Aranya by Marc Secchia.

Road Trip

I’m not going to be around all of today because at 10:30pm last night a friend of my phoned from the airport, saying he was now in Canada.  This was quite unexpected because earlier he said the flight was cancelled so he and his brother couldn’t make it.  Then the phone call came.

So now today I’m getting up way too early and going to collect their tired butts from the airport, which is about four and a half hours away.  It’s about a nine hour road trip if you don’t stop anywhere (which I most certainly need to) so it’ll be a ten or eleven hour trip in total.  That means I’m going to be away for the majority of the day and won’t be awake enough to write anything until at least tomorrow afternoon.

So have a great Saturday and I’ll see you guys on Sunday!

Who’s Coming to Book Expo America 2015?

It’s official: I’ve booked my hotel and my plane ticket so I am going to attend BEA in New York on May 27-29.  I’ll actually be arriving a little before the conference on a Monday and leaving on a Monday at the crack of dawn but the main reason I’m coming is for the conference.  I’m so lucky that the hotel I’m staying at is just 0.4 miles from the Javits Center where the conference takes place.  So here’s what my schedule looks like:

May 25: Arrive and get my bearings, maybe go for a walk in the downtown area.  Try to find Central Park (which is apparently fairly close to my hotel).

May 26: Metropolitan Museum, here I come!  Plus maybe a little shopping.

May 27: BEA Bloggers’ Conference pretty much all day.

May 28: Regular Book Expo America, probably mostly wandering around and trying to get my bearings.  The only panel I really want to see is the Tor panel where John Scalzi’s speaking.

May 29: Continue with Book Expo America on the last day.  I have nothing planned for this day at the conference right now but I’m sure that will change once I find out about more of the events.

May 30: Do the tourist thing: I’m hoping to see the Empire State Building and/or the Statue of Liberty.  Maybe hit up another museum on Museum Mile.

May 31: (Hopefully) go see a taping of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.  Tickets aren’t available quite yet but I’ve bookmarked the site and am eagerly awaiting the announcement for when tickets are available for that particular day.  I know they go fast but I’m really hoping to get one.

June 1: Leave in the middle of the night for home.

Is anyone interested in meeting up with me at the conference?  I’d love to meet my fellow readers as well as authors and other bloggers.

And if you’re not coming to Book Expo America, don’t worry!  I’ll be posting daily articles about my experiences at the conference and at the end will probably provide a tips for next year article even though it’s in Chicago and not New York for 2016.  I’m just so excited for BEA 2015 and the closer the date gets, the more excited I become and the more time seems to slow down.

So who would like to meet up at the conference?