Creepy or ADDED VALUE?!

Put a QR barcode on your headstone so your cell phone addicted relatives can visit you virtually after your death!

OKAY THEN.

Someone needs to add this to their next undead/vampire/zombie novel. Embed a GPS chip under the skin and encode the frequency in the QR code. Anyone who wants to know can download the QR code from the headstone and be notified the instant future undead boyfriend is on the move. Get to him while he's freshly undead. :D

Hot...err, Cool Wins This July

No mention of heat please...

I'm getting WAAAAY better at the graphics thing at Picnik. Woo!

Prophecy by S.J. Parris from Bless Their Hearts Mom

The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace from She's Too Fond of Books

Morning For Flamingo by James Lee Burke from Martha's Bookshelf

Beg for Mercy by Jami Alden from Bitten by Paranormal Romance

Ripe for Pleasure by Isobel Carr from So Many Precious Books, So Little Time!

The Guardian by Margaret Mallory from  One Book Shy of a Full Shelf

A Second Helping by Beverly Jenkins from SOS Aloha

(Re)Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story by Mary L. Tabor from CMash Loves to Read

 

The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland from SOS Aloha

Pompeii: City of Fire by T.L. Higley from Relz Reviewz

Save My Soul by Zoe Winters from The Fiction Enthusiast

You know that story at Time magazine about fan fiction? Oh Em Gee. Free reads for all @ Fanfiction.net. I just wished they could sort by reviews or hits or stars or whatever.

Wee Alternative to Amazon Affiliates?

So I'm using shrtn.co as a URL shortener and for affiliate referrals because it's a PITA to apply to each individual store's affiliate program. In any case, I smell the whiff of doom for the mothership of affiliate programs, a.k.a Amazon. Apparently there are no Amazon affiliates available for these states anymore:

Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Hawaii
Illinois
New York
North Carolina
Rhode Island
Texas

Who's next?! Dun Dun Dun!

If you're located in any one of these states, I'm guessing shrtn.co can act as the middle man, for now (until the affiliate hammer comes down on wherever it's located). You potentially get less referral money unless you refer like all of your Facebook/Twitter/G+/TheNextBestThingEver friends and beat it into them (metaphorically!) to use it in their tweets and messages :p   

Eh, they also have iTunes and Drugstore.com as affiliatatatable merchants if you're into that kindaofthing.

Look, I bought a hand blender, don't you want one too?! Go to http://shrtn.co/1gi and get one! (Actually, it is pretty awesome for smoothies, there are BAGS of frozen fruit in my freezer.)