From a fan:

Dear Mr. Perry, I don't get it. I just read your post about that REAL author. As a reader and a fan you are as real to me as any of them. A friend recommended your Darkside series to me while we were in Barnes & Noble so I looked it up in the kiosk. I found them easily, available in paperback and as a Nook book. I skimmed through the preview and liked what I saw so I bought it for my Nook and downloaded it. Let me just tell you I loved Loved LOVED your book, so I bought the next two as well. I want to buy them in paperback too so that if I ever meet you I could get you to autograph them for me. I found you on Facebook by Googling you, which led me to your website, and to your Facebook Author's page, and then here. So tell me, how is my experience as a reader any different than if my friend had recommended a book by a REAL writer?

P.S. My friend said she met you at World Fantasy in Toronto and that you were super nice and just as charming and funny as you are in your books and that she doesn't understand why you weren't on any panels because she would go to any panel you were on and it would probably be a hoot!

Me: Thank you so much for this. Your email came at just the right time.
P.S. You realise that's not me in the books, right? (Well, mostly not me.)

P.S.S. I just got an email from someone claiming to be George R.R. Martin telling me I'm a nobody. :)

(I'm pretty sure George doesn't use a hotmail account under the guise "chickenlover69" but I could be wrong.)