Coming Clean

You’ve been seeing a lot more words in disclaimers in recent posts of mine, things telling you that by clicking/purchasing through a link I share that I might receive a small percentage of your order. There’s a reason for that: The FTC {Federal Trades Commission} is cracking down on bloggers. Meaning that we now have to follow several different procedures in any post in which we mention products, as well as if we recommend them or link to a POS {Point of Sale}.

I know all of my readers are smart enough to not take anything I say as the absolute word, that you’re intelligent enough to decide on whether something is a good book {most of what my reviews are about} for you or not.  But the FTC is wanting to protect you guys, by asking bloggers to always be very clear in our posts about any course of action you might take as a result of what we’ve written, and to not only be clear, but to restate it several times throughout.

That said.

I now have a disclosure policy on my blog, stating a lot of the above required information. You can find that HERE.

You’ll also see a lot of additional text in posts declaring it to contain affiliate links, and that opinions expressed are my own, and a lot of other now necessary things.

As always, I’m not going to waste your time or my time, trying to sell you something that I don’t think is worthwhile. I’m going to continue to share HONESTLY with you about what I think of different books and such that I’ve had the opportunity to review. Sometimes those are things I’ve received for free, in exchange for an HONEST review….sometimes those are things that I’ve purchased myself and felt strongly enough about to write a post about.

Also, NOT EVERY LINK on this blog is an affiliate link. Sometimes I do just share links to things that I think are worth sharing. If you don’t see the disclaimer/affiliate thing in a post, it’s just a link and nothing more.

If you’d like to read more information about the why and the what, my friend Kalyn from CreativeSavingsBlog.com has a wonderful post up on her blog {don’t worry, this isn’t an affiliate link}.