sent almost daily now by scammers trying to trick me into hiring them as publicists, or to facilitate fictitious book club adoptions of my work. At first I actually read the flowery encomiums about what a genius I am because who wouldn’t? But now I just click delete after reading the subject line …
(I have to say that whoever thinks they are going to get rich this way is even less financially savvy than an actual poet!)
OCT 13th update: I had already received 4 such emails by 10:00 this morning!! And I just got a 5th at 11:00 a.m. I wonder how many more I will get by the end of the day? Yup, got yet another one. It’s the literary equivalent of all those phone calls offering Duct Cleaning or Rogers Cable.