If you’re reading this, you’re either A) someone who clicked here by accident, B) a bureaucrat, or C) a masochist. No judgment in any case; I just can’t imagine a normal person reading one of these things. Consider the following, then, a simultaneous exercise in legal compliance and my own amusement.

I’m an Amazon Associate, which means I get paid by Amazon. They pay me when you buy my books from them, read my books on Kindle Unlimited, listen to them on Audible, or click on any of the affiliate links throughout my site and buy something. Anything, really. I only ever link to my own books, so it weirds me out that people have clicked those links and bought something else entirely. Someone once did that and bought a different litRPG book, which I have mixed feelings about. I mean, it’s nice to get paid, but I’m getting paid for someone seeing my book, saying “nuts to that,” and reading the thing next to it instead. Sort of a bittersweet consolation prize there.

I digress. I’m supposed to talk about bias. I’m very biased. What did you expect? I just got done telling you how I only ever link to my own books. I could claim to be objective in spite of the personal and financial rewards involved, but you’d be a fool to believe me. I’m not here to give you my objective review of the best laundry detergents. I’m here to hock my wares in the vain hope that someday I can be a big boy author and write as a full-time day job.

While you’re here (why are you here again?), did you know Amazon doesn’t give authors an easy way to tell what marketing is working? Honestly, that’s why I’m even a part of this. The affiliate commission is peanuts compared to normal book sales. I do it because it gives me some way, any way, to figure out where people are finding and buying my books. You’d think Amazon would give us poor authors some analytics to figure that out outside of their own advertising platform. They have a vested interest in the success of our sales, after all. It just doesn’t make any sense.

Anyway, why are you still reading this? I’m pretty sure I finished the required legal disclosure bit a long time ago. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Now shoo. 😛