Let’s Talk about ARCs & book availability. Also, Humor for the Holidays is now available.

Before I get into the nitty gritty, please enjoy this picture of me using the female as my pillow. She’s such a good human slave, doing what I want, when I want, and how I want. See? She was doing a good job. How do you know? I’m smiling!

Now that you have been brought into line with the cuteness of my sleeping self, I am barring the female from working to discuss a surprisingly complicated and controversial subject: ARCs. Advanced Reader Copies. AKA, free books exchanged for review.

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