Brandi is sick. Gordon and I are hovering on the edge of sick. Kid 1 is patient zero who infected all of us. Because Brandi is sick, I decided to look at the emails this week.
I had to reach for a bit of tranquility before responding to the one below, so here is a beautiful lotus for you.
As a fellow writer, I found your profile on amazon and I want to tell you that…
Help me sell my digital book and I will give you 50% share of the revenue. You control the money.
I will send you all the files. You sell it on amazon kindle, or any websites you like on YOUR name, (or my name if you want, but your account ID) then you collect the money and, periodically, you paypal me my 50% share.
You can add the advertisement for my novel at the end of your youtube video file, and/or any other channel as you see fit, and/or make an entire video specifically for my book. Feel free to do anything.
Sound good? If you like the idea but don’t like any specific detail of this offer, let me know and I will modify it.
My name is REDACTED I wrote a book named “TITLE REDACTED” , an English-language comedy erotic fantasy novel. In my opinion. it’s very good and funny book but the competition is really fierce everywhere and I can’t reach any potential customers at all.
Note:
If you like a formal contract, let me know. I can provide it, with My ID card etc.
Only if you want, the name TITLE REDACTED (as well as the cover jpg file) can be changed to your liking, without my permission, for your book entry on the website you are selling it on.
When you try to sell my book on your video, tell the viewers to click on the link on your video that lead to YOUR entry of the book on the website YOU chose to sell it on. DO NOT ask the viewers to search for the word “TITLE REDACTED” on any websites, because that might lead into other entry of the my book (and you will lose your revenue)
For instant chat, you can skype me at my id: REDACTEDWRITING SAMPLE REDACTED. If you are the author reading this, what you wrote is in a screenplay format, not a novel.
No.
Any recommendations you see on this blog are there because we like the work. We will occasionally mention new releases from our friends, and these will be clearly marked so, as in the blog post will have a disclaimer of “The author is our BFF and we are biased.”
We do not use affiliate links when recommending other people’s books and receive no monetary compensation for mentioning other people’s books. Well, Grace Draven took us to dinner, so technically I guess we did receive compensation once.
Look, I get it, it’s hard to break out because there are so many books available now, but this is not the way to go about it. What you are asking us to do would be deeply unethical.
I may need to take Brandi to dinner. Because oy.
Sending House Andrews Healing Reiki Energies
Everyone will be well!!!
Hahaha! “Well, Grace Draven took us to dinner, so technically I guess we did receive compensation once.”
I do appreciate your integrity, and I love reading your book recommendations! They’ve helped me discover some wonderful new authors (including Grace Draven) and some that fit in the “your mileage may vary” category, but I never have to doubt the sincerity of your recommendation. <3
+1
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Hope everyone gets better soon!
Always amazing the lengths people will go.
I thought this was one of those emails that says you inherited lots of money but please give us your credit card and personal information so we can mail it to you type of things.
Best of luck to the budding author. Very creative. ???? Yes take Brandi to dinner. She reads every email? Brave woman!????
So would you say this is an average day? Yep, nutters and more nutters. – Gavin Troy.
Oh my! People!! Don’t even know what they think and don’t care.
Rest, relax, knit…be well really soon.
Sending happy thoughts, good wishes and healing prayers to all. Get better and yes definitely take Brandi out to dinner(more than once!).
That email was someone whose first language is not English. I agree with the person who said it sounds like those crazy emails about someone wants to give you 1.5 million dollars! Your answer was so nice! If you get lots of these, poor Brandi must go nuts reading and answering emails. I probably wouldn’t answer ones like that. Those are the ones in my spam folder!
Did they also claim to be working for the IRS? What a joke. Hope you all feel better soon!
Wow! That is some crazypants thinking right there. I love that you are obviously being kind to this person.
I hope you all recover soon. Wishing health for House Andrews!
Why would you want someone to take credit for a piece of work you’ve poured your time and a piece of yourself into?
All writers should let their own light shine.
Hope your family gets better soon. “And for five easy payments of $1 million each I can connect you with a Nigerian General who may or may not have money to invest.” That is about the level this is at. The big thing on youtube is passive income which you generate by posting videos recommending products you use. You also are supposed to branch out by finding other products and companies you can recommend and have the people that own said products and companies pay them. Sadly like pyramid schemes only a few people who do this make real money. I say join the circus and become a lion tamer. its safer. 🙂
Good one!
Yes, but you footed the bill for me and Mr. Draven the next time, and we’ve been swapping ever since. So I’d call that even-steven. ;-D
I hope you are well enough to fly to London. Looking forward to meeting you!
I think that they had to CANCEL that visit Elizabeth.
Wow. I just can’t even. I mean that’s hella creative/conniving and sadly I’m sure someone somewhere does that but geez. Thank you for not being those kind of people.
I’m sorry y’all are dealing w the sick. We all have the allergies from hell and I’m tap dancing on the edge of sick so I feel you.
WOW! Does this happen often?
Oy is right! *air hugs*
Wow! That was so tacky that the tacky meter broke.
O_O Well…that’s…bold… Wowzers….
OMG, honey, my heart so goes out to you! It’s enough to be verging-on-sick, and have people around you be sick, and then to have to deal with this!
As my boss would say, “The high price of success.”
Please take extra-good care of yourself (yourselves).
Xoxo to all – A.
That bizarre message made me think of so much now going on online. I have just discovered that a favorite website was now newly advertising for “Question Creating Jobs” and artificially seek answers from others and get paid. However those who carefully answered questions with care and thought and had many thousands of upvotes, the meat of the whole site, were ignored. I am constantly amazed at the chutzpah and desperate greed that travels through the net.
However, I do have some rocks from my garden for sale…. free shipping on purchases $50 or more….???? (monograms extra)
Oh dear. Nice lotus flower. Suddenly very glad I don’t have your job. 🙂
I’ve sen you mention Grace Draven a few times in the blog but i’ve never read antthing from her…. what would you recommend?.
Thanks!