As anyone who visits us knows, Monster Librarian is all volunteer-run. While we are an Amazon affiliate, Amazon hasn’t paid out anything since 2014. A few months ago we also became an affliate of Bookshop.org, which looks like it might eventually pay something out, but still not enough to cover our expenses. Covering our hosting fees and postage costs about $200 a year. If we wanted to do more than we already do, we would have to raise more.

It has been our policy since the site began in 2006 that Monster Librarian does not accept paid advertising (with the exception of our relationships with Amazon and Bookshop.org)  in order to eliminate any doubt about bias in our reviews, which we work to keep honest and objective in order to best serve our audience of librarians and readers interested in learning more about and reading in the horror genre.

So I ask that if you can, that you help us out by contributing financially. Monster Librarian is an LLC, so your contribution is not a tax deductible donation, it’s simply a way to support the work we are doing.  We are now more than halfway through the year, and we are well below where we need to be just to keep going at the bare minimum. If  you think what we are doing is important enough to contribute and you’re already directly reading the blog,  click on the bright red “contribute” button in the sidebar on the right. If you are reading this on our Facebook page, you can just click on the “Shop Now” button, which will bring you to the Monster Librarian blog, and if you scroll down a bit, you will see the red “contribute” button.  Just click on the button and that will take you to Paypal.

If you’d like to see Monster Librarian continue, or even stretch further, we really need your support. Thank you.

Kirsten Kowalewski, Editor.