Last week, Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon ever recorded, hit the Philippines. As a Filipino-American who was born in Manila and spent a few years of my childhood there, I’m heartbroken at seeing the devastation that my kababayans have suffered.

I can’t do much from here, but what little help I can offer, I will. So to that end, I’d like to do something very special: for the next 30 days, I will donate 50% of all my royalties fromsales ofThe Polaris Uprisingon Amazon. That’s roughly $1 p...