An e-mail arrives from one of my stable of bloggers:
Hi Adam,
You will be pleased to hear that I am receiving my first back-hander for blogging. As I posted a link to a review about a new book called "[Redacted]", which grew out of a blog about the fictional life of a [redacted], the author has promised me my very own copy if I promise to do my own review for the blog.
I am v pleased.
I could be being terribly naive here, but isn't that called a "review copy" and standard practice? My colleague is going to have to work harder than that before I consider them corrupt. :)
(And yes, Tim, I am aware that I owe you a review of that camping guidebook)
That's not much of a freebie. I was contacted the other day by a PR company representing GO APE. They're the firm that run events in woods and forests - basically allowing you to climb/swing through trees on a network of ropes/cables (they do a lot of corporate days).
They've offered me 14 free tickets!
I'm looking forward to reading the camping book review, incidentally Adam:)