PastaQueen reads a book. And finishes it! And tells you about it!
[Read more…] about Review: “The 10-Minute Total Body Breakthrough” by Sean Foy
You'll laugh you ass off. (I did.)
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PastaQueen reads a book. And finishes it! And tells you about it!
[Read more…] about Review: “The 10-Minute Total Body Breakthrough” by Sean Foy
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Hello, dear readers. I wanted to apologize for the fact that I’m posting two reviews less than a week apart from each other. The Fage review has been in the works for weeks, and I forgot it was finally going live this week, otherwise I would have posted the Home Trends review sooner or later. I have a bazillion things going through my head these days (including the ever-present headache) and I futzed up the timing on this. I don’t want the blog to turn into a big advertorial, so rest assured I will hold off on any more reviews for several weeks. Please bear with me!
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PastaQueen reviews items from the Home Trends store which promise to save her veggies from going bad and save her money from being stolen, all while wearing looser jeans.
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Over the years I’ve started to get more and more press releases that include an offer to review INSERT YOUR STUPID PRODUCT HERE. Most of these get tossed in my trash bin. Sometimes I giggle or roll my eyes before I delete them, like I did all three (yes three!) times they sent me the press release for the arm flab girdle. At first it was fun to get these emails because if I was getting PR spam it meant someone was reading my blog, even if it was only a computer program harvesting email addresses on web pages that use the word “lard.” But I got over that thrill really quickly and now they’re mostly annoying. (Yeah, I know, poor, poor, me.)
Sometimes though, I get sent an offer to review a product that genuinely intrigues me. It could be for a product I’ve heard about or something I think my readers might enjoy. This has always caused an ethical pickle for me because I don’t want my blog to become one long infomercial, but sometimes I’m human and I want to accept the free stuff. In the past, I’ve done the occasional book review and given away products for free, but those situations have always been an ethical gray area for me that I’ve never known how best to deal with.
So, I’m going to try something new. I’ve created an official review policy and I’m going to start occasionally reviewing products. I suspect the majority of you will not care one way or the other about this. You’re already sick of reading this entry and wish I’d get my nose out of my navel and stop blogging about the blog already. A small group of you will be so pissed off that you are right now composing emails to me debating whether I am a five-dollar whore or a two-dollar whore before you storm off in a huff. And another group is probably looking forward to seeing what I’ll review.
Before I do anything though, I thought it best to set some ground rules which I’ve also posted on my advertising page.
PastaQueen’s Official Review Policy – Updated December 13, 2008
Those are all the ground rules I could think of. If you can think of anything else that might be relevant, feel free to suggest it on the comments of this entry.
I contemplated creating a whole new blog just for reviews, but the amount of time it would take to design a template that I liked and set the whole thing up made my brain implode. It’s easier to post everything here. We’ll see how this goes. If the reviews don’t fit into the flow of the blog, I’ll stop doing them or post them somewhere else. However, I hope you’ll find them useful and also entertaining (This is me we’re talking about. I inserted Sailor Moon analogies into my freshman English papers.) I typically appreciate it when a blogger recommends a product they like or steers me away from something that is awful. I’m not going to be reviewing the Flowbee here. It will only be stuff you might possibly be interested in or will laugh your ass off hearing about. I promise to give you my full, honest opinion and hopefully not annoy you in the process. The first review is posted right before this entry. Enjoy (or not)!
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I’m going on tour – a blog tour. For the next three weeks, I’ll be making stops every week day at different locations in the blogosphere to talk about my book. There will be reviews, interviews, guest posts and perhaps even podcasts. It would be fun to tour the country on a book tour, but also rather expensive and I don’t have the vacation time. A blog tour is better because I save a lot on gas money. And I don’t have to find someone to feed my cat.
We’re kicking it off today with the woman who helped get this whole book thing rolling, Kalyn Denny of Kalyn’s Kitchen. Here is a schedule of the rest of my stops, which I will update with direct links to the posts as they go live. It should be lots of fun, so I hope everyone will check it out!
Monday, May 5: Kalyn’s Kitchen
Tuesday, May 6: CalorieLab (interview)
Wednesday, May 7: Life of L
Thursday, May 8: Big Fat Deal
Friday, May 9: Cranky Fitness
Monday, May 12: DietGirl
Tuesday, May 13: Diet Blog (guest post)
Wednesday, May 14: Elastic Waist (interview)
Thursday, May 15: Livin’ La Vida Low Carb (podcast)
Friday, May 16: Back in Skinny Jeans (podcast)
Monday, May 19: Manic Mommy (book giveaway!)
Tuesday, May 20: CalorieLab (review)
Wednesday, May 21: Elastic Waist (guest on video show The Daily Special)
Thursday, May 22: The Skinny at the Florida Sun-Sentinel
Friday, May 23: Roni’s Weight Watchen Page
Monday, May 26: The Diet Naked Blog formerly “The Amazing Shrinking Mom” (book giveaway!)
I also wanted to thank the following blogs for posting reviews before I got my act together to schedule the blog tour.
April 10 – In My Heels
April 24 – Morgan Gets Thin
April 26 – Yet Another Weight Watcher’s Blog
And if you’ve posted a review, interview, revealing photos of me and want to be listed in this post, e-mail me and I’ll include a link. Except if you posted revealing photos, in which case I’ll send you a cease and desist letter.
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