Amusing Myself

Spam from self-published author. Hurm actually spelled my name correctly. Well I suppose I'll respond. Here we go...

"Mr. ____

"This is our policy on unsolicited press releases. We delete them unread and unopened if we can help it. We will not consider your book for our reading list (since if you actually read our website you'd find we don't have one) and we will not promote your book for you.. Maybe you think you are different, that you should be the one exception to our policy of ignoring commercial solicitations. If so there is a way around this policy. Send a check for $10 made out to "DASFA" to our treasurer, Dave Gibbons 3225 W. 29th Ave. Denver, CO 80211. We will then read the missives you send us."

Hey, the worse that can happen is he actually sends us $10 and then we have to read his press release. More amusing would be if he gets indignant about our behavior or something.

My First Boycot

Well sorta. For years I avoided Nestle products. That was just a choice, not a religion as it was with some people. I avoided them because they seemed to be in a grey area in their behavior and there are plenty of other producers of food out there.

So it's going to be for me in regard to Orson Scott Card because of this commentary. There are plenty of good SF writers out there who are not against giving me the right to marry if I so choose. I won't skip cons just because he'll be there, but it would be a strike against going to one. I won't be all religious about it, but I'm going to encourage my friends not to buy his books, or if they do to buy them used so he doesn't get any money.