11/28/2025
Looking to do some holiday shopping this weekend? Consider NOT buying from the giant corporations that are bleeding us dry, hurting humans, destroying the environment, and accelerating the climate crisis. Amazon and other mega-corporations may offer unbelievable convenience in the short term, but they don’t deliver on community care, employee safety, or environmental responsibility.
If you’ve seen the film Spirited Away, you might remember No-Face, a shapeshifting spirit who grows bigger and more monstrous the more he consumes. Nothing is ever enough. That’s how corporations like Amazon operate. They grow massive by swallowing everything around them, but they give back only shiny trinkets that, upon closer inspection, have no real value.
I’m almost certainly hurting my book sales by not including an Amazon link in any of my promotions of Gathered. But I think the cost of promoting a company that exists to swallow up independent companies is far too high to pay in the long term. I understand that nothing is black and white, and I cast zero moral aspersions on anyone (especially anyone who needs to use Amazon or other mega-corporations in order to access what they need), but if we want to live in thriving communities full of art and life and beauty, we need to support them.
If you’re so inclined to pick up a copy of Gathered, I’d ask that you get it from an ethical e-commerce site like , or from your local bookseller. And as an added incentive, if you send a snapshot of your local purchase receipt and a good address to [email protected], I’ll mail you a signed bookplate and cover the postage myself.
Thanks for supporting my book, and I think you’re gonna love it!
