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

[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...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

The check cashing schemes and internet drugstores are par for the course, as are the offers from people who will tell me how I can get my books sold in stores (for a fee.) But the spam from other "pro's" who should know better annoys me.