No, I will not read your f#@king script

[pbray]

Stolen from everyone, professional screenwriter Josh Olson hits the nail on the head.

The newest version of the trend is the folks I've never met who think I have nothing better to do than to read their self-published or micropress book and then give them a review blurb. Often helpfully sent to me as an attachment, which luckily 9 times out of 10 will land their email in the spam bucket, never to be seen again.

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I know the feeling. I'm the reviews' editor for a small magazine and I dread the arrival of yet another self-published opus. In the nearly two years I've been doing this, there's been one good one: the rest, not so much.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

And then we're stuck in the position of being the bad guys--either we ignore the request and we're elitist prigs, or we tell them the awful truth and then we're jerks.

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Yep. Catch 22.