Public Service Announcement: STOP SPAMMING ME

I get it.

You have a business and you need to pull clients out of the woodwork. The world is at your fingertips, and so is my email. If you don’t have clients you don’t survive, and email is so quick and easy, reaching your target market in the murky ocean waters you’re trying to navigate.

As an author, I could potentially be a client; I need advertising don’t I? I mean, I have to sell books or I don’t survive as I’m an independent publisher. I know authors struggling to publish their latest gems to eager readers, and even one who won’t be publishing at all for the foreseeable future because the sales aren’t there to justify the expenses we incur publishing our own material. With so many service options out there, it would be nice to find a business offering exactly what I need. I would be PERFECT for your business.

And the dozens of others that send me emails nearly weekly.

Are you all finding my contact information on my website and then feel it’s an invitation to send me a long introductory letter about your business? I really want to connect with my readers, and any agents or movie producers…

I have yet to use a service that has sent me an unsolicited email. I immediately feel annoyed and either mark the email as spam or delete it. I’ve actually received multiple emails from a single company and have had to send a reply asking them to stop spamming me.

So just don’t start.

Rant over.

I’ve now updated my About page to state that soliciting emails will be deleted.

Readers, agents, producers, other writers–I want to hear from you!