Dude, we've never even met

[pbray]

I'm glad that you're excited about your book, but honestly, sending spam emails to published authors asking them to nominate your book for every professional award out there isn't the best way to make a good first impression. Not even if you've helpfully included a list of all the awards you think it deserves.

Since it's not available in bookstores, offering to send me a review copy so I could read the book and then make up my own mind wouldn't be a bad idea. I'd likely decline due to time constraints, but at least then there would be a legitimate reason for you to have gotten in touch. But simply mass mailing everyone asking them to vote for you, sight unseen? Not your best idea.

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[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to be gleeful that my spam filter is better than yours, or sad that I am unloved.

Maybe he targeted people with SFWA accounts, not SFWA members, since if his book isn't even available in stores, it's probably not enough to get him into SFWA and access to the members' directory. (Although, since spamming would be against the terms of use of said directory, that seems like a real waste of $75-$100...)

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Oh, good point. I never got my sff.net webpage or anything.
Should do that... (wanders off in daze.)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

He is a member of SFWA, likely with short story credits. But you may be right that he's harvesting sff.net email addresses.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Seems a likely culprit.