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I received a reply from the guy with the great idea for a TV show who needed someone with "industry credibility" to team up with. Feel the need to vent? No problem! Since we don’t each other, it can’t be personal. A simple, "not interested" would have done the trick though. The television saying you … Read more
Get-rich-quick huckster Lori Prokop is "saddened" that aspiring writers, whose desperation for publication makes them easy prey, aren’t falling for her transparent BookMillionare Reality Show scam. She writes: We are building both a television show, television viewing audience and online community to highlight the writing community. To see this slammed by members of the writing … Read more
Today I got two emails from two different people, both hoping for the same thing, that they could use me to achieve their dreams of success in Hollywood. This first email came in under the subject heading "I Have Some Great Screenplays!" (The names, addresses and phone numbers have been removed, otherwise the emails are … Read more
This month’s "Scam of the Month" is, oddly enough, the same as last month’s… that’s right, Lori Prokop’s Book Millionaire. She sent me an email and posted a comment here about what I called a get-rich-quick infomercial scam. All you really need to know about Lori is best summarized by the email address she used … Read more
I received an email today from a guy who writes fanfic in "the SEAQUEST universe" and would like to see it published as novels. Here’s part of what he wrote me: We see novels based on other universes published all the time. Be they the Extended-Universe Star Wars novels written by people like Timothy Zahn … Read more
Today, I received this email from Wayne Manzo. I would like to produce a weekly investigative news program based on my research and web magazines. The show will be investigative news but from a different angle__that we humans are living with ET and it is the aliens that are controlling our human reality. I need … Read more
In my chats with mystery writers this weekend at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a few "hot button" topics came up…mainly because I was tackling them on my blog and they wanted to thank me for bringing them into the open. I asked them why, if they share my views, they don’t say … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve had a scam-of-the-month, so maybe I should call this Scam of the Quarter? Anyway, a whole bunch of folks have emailed me today about the insipid "Book Millionaire" scam. Seems there’s this get-rich-quick marketeer named Lori Prokop who is the host, executive producer, and co-creator (with her sister) of … Read more
I get asked this so often, that I suppose its worth answering the question yet again. I received this email today: In my search for bible writing info, I came across your site and read the ongoing discussion about series bibles. I’m a beginning writer and have come up with what I think maybe a … Read more
Update: 4/18/2005 I received a very polite and good-natured email from John Carsone asking me to please remove the correspondence from him that I posted here, since he sent it to me privately. Just so there’s no confusion in the future, you should all know that any emails I get are fair game for my … Read more