Comments on: Various forms of navel gazing

By: Solitha

Solitha — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:22:47 +0000

If you have not yet… I would recommend picking up Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. If you like it, its series (Malazan Book of the Dead) is up to #9 out of 10, with various side novellas. #10 should be out this spring.

You might like Malazan; we seem to have a lot of tastes in common, even down to the Hibben knives :D

By: Darth Solo

Darth Solo — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:17:19 +0000

I think you should go ahead with the Amazon affiliates thing. It doesn’t cost your readers anything and it’s a little bit of extra cash on the side. For all the good content you put out there, you deserve it.

One word of warning though: Amazon is cutting off their affiliates service to certain states that want to charge sales tax on affiliates’ earnings. Hopefully your state doesn’t introduce that stupid law.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:01:33 +0000

And I refuse to explain why the word ‘Pimp’ reminded me of Maxim.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:00:23 +0000

Well, I decided to say to hell with it, and set up an Affiliate account and tied it in. One option was to get a $10 gift certificate to Amazon as payment… so, if it ever got to that point, moar books, which is always a good thing.

We’ll see. I remain utterly unconvinced that anyone would buy something after clicking through it from a link on my site… but I have to contrast that with the fact that, when it came time for me to buy ventrilo hosting for my guild years back, I intentionally went to World of Matticus’ site because I had seen he had a link to one that would give him a kickback. Or whatever you call it.

So, I dunno. Maybe if someone was already intending to buy a book and saw I had a link to it, they might decide to click it through the BBB. that would seem reasonable.

I am just so not a pimp, lol.

Oh shit! That reminds me, Maxim emailed me with an awesome prize to offer on the website to a reader, I need to work out the details. Whoops!

By: Slamma

Slamma — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:14:10 +0000

I’d clik it – you turned me on to John Ringo and that’s a debt I’d happily repay pennies at a time :)

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:11:37 +0000

I’m looking forward to seeing what you read. I’m always looking out for new (to me) authors.