I'm torn on the Amazon affiliate's thing. I link to their pages because I like reading the reviews on a book before I consider buying them (or used to, before Amazon got flooded with paid reviews), but I'm always quick to tell people that I don't get anything out of them following the link. Kind of feels more honest if I don't get money out of it, I guess? Though with money being tighter for me now, that's something I should consider...

I hope you enjoy NPCs a much as I did! I'm happy to report the second book seems just as good so far.

I actually haven't read Redshirts yet, though I've read a bunch of other stuff he's written. I've heard such strongly mixed reviews of it, I never put it on my list of things to read. Sounds like you were in the 'liked it' camp?