"Dear Acquisitions Editor of Frankland"
So, this is how it all started yesterday morning...
It looked legitimate... if you were as stupid as a Trump voter or Dave Chadwick. Then I went on a little internet safari and found this from 2011 on the late AC Crispin's site warning us about this same too-good-to-be-true deal. It also comes with an update from this year showing the text of the new email sent out by these scammers which happens to be the same one I'd just received yesterday morning. So, safely informed that my suspicions were confirmed, this is what I wrote them back.
Then I folded my arms, sat back and awaited the inevitable response. Then, as expected, it came. It was a carbon copy of the first one. So I sent them a second letter, wondering how long I could take this.
Then, at 3:22 AM, this came:
Then, 14 minutes later, it was followed up with this. Note my final response.
I couldn't believe these fucking idiots were still writing to me after the emails I'd sent them written in Engrish and involving midget porn. I'd started believing at this point that no human beings were actually involved in writing these hilarious emails and that they were generated by bots. It was literally getting harder and harder to get outrageous enough to finally reach the tipping point when they realized I'm no more for real than them.
Then I realized in a rush of horror these morons at Just Fiction, the newest iteration of the late, aptly-named DIP Publishing House were actually writing these emails at a keyboard and taking my emails seriously, including patiently reminding me about possible copyright infringements of my using Disney characters in my nonexistent book and informing me about their moral standards.
Yeah, pal, preach to me about moral standards. This is coming from con artists who pay just once a year, sign the unwary up for lifetime contracts and pay just 10%, if that, for EBOOKS, which even the predatory Big Five can beat by 7.5%.
So, to quote the name of a certain website, if you're a writer looking for a publisher, WRITER BEWARE.
2 Comments:
What a coincidence that you should mention Crispin. I remember buying her novelization of the TV miniseries "V" and "V: the Final Battle" back in 1984.
The parallels between the theme of the miniseries and the direction the U.S. is headed today aren't hard to detect. I particularly remember one exchange between two of the principal characters.
Eleanor: Those of us who respect law and order are free! It's criminals like you who cry "fascist"!
Mike: You're just as free as the leash you're on. You tug it too hard, they'll hang you by it.
Respecting law and order means adjusting one's behavior to comply with what the fuzz in your jurisdiction say is appropriate for one's income level and/or skin color.
Unfortunately, I don't know what happened to my copy of the novel.
AC was a class act, no doubt about it. We corresponded briefly back in the 90s. I'll never forget those lush pirate outfits she wore every Halloween.
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