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.

Comments

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I got no such spam. You are special. Or my spam-filter is better.
(I'm guessing the guy targeted SFWA folks, because how else would he find writers?)

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Wow. And people think being a published writer is all glamorous and stuff.

Turns out you just get more and weirder spam...

[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...)

[fireun.livejournal.com]

next they will call and let me know when they will be by for a signing...