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I spammed my mailing list yesterday with the announcement that my book is available for preorder. I wrote the email. Rewrote it. Spell-checked it. Made sure I blind copied everyone, so the email list wasn't visible. I stared at it a while. And then, I clicked. And as I clicked, I knew I had done something wrong, that I shouldn't have clicked.
Today, when I got a few replies, I realized what I had done wrong. I hadn't put anything in the subject line. No PREORDER WORLD LEADER PRETEND TODAY.
I am much chagrined. I can see my email now, populating spam folders, lost forever. Many of the people on my mailing list I have not spoken to in years, and my email has changed a few times since then, and when they see this email, from Jim at sinceritypress, they will surely ignore it. AAAAAAAARG. My ineptitude is once again exposed.
Today, when I got a few replies, I realized what I had done wrong. I hadn't put anything in the subject line. No PREORDER WORLD LEADER PRETEND TODAY.
I am much chagrined. I can see my email now, populating spam folders, lost forever. Many of the people on my mailing list I have not spoken to in years, and my email has changed a few times since then, and when they see this email, from Jim at sinceritypress, they will surely ignore it. AAAAAAAARG. My ineptitude is once again exposed.
Labels: World Leader Pretend
posted by bigdumbjim at 10:02
7 Comments:
Dear Jim, I thought you were being humble!Mary. Dad and Mom and I have all preordered. I mailed your email to everyone on my list. Laura, the girl Tom dated in highschool, got it said she would check it out and pass it on to Tammy Clarke and Elizabeth Bondy, she has a different last name now. I mailed it to NAMI, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill people so I will try to get it written up in the NAMI advocate. They put all the disease related fictions there. Love, Mary
woohoo. preordered.
Hey Mary, that was really smart of you for sending it to NAMI. I wouldn't have thought of that.
yeah, well...
ummm...
i didn't just delete it all of the sudden.
Walmart!!!!! How 'bout that!!!!! You're gonna be famous. All your bunglings will be forgiven. Really, though, don't sweat the small stuff: and it's all small stuff, as ol' b.s. would say.
Sweating the small stuff is my job.
(There was a day, I suppose, when sweating the small stuff was the editor's job, but corporate cutbacks have eliminated that role...)
Erm . . . why does the Powell's site have your name listed, alternatively, as "James Bernard Frosh"?
David, I dont know the answer to that question. Another site had that issue too. *sigh* And how exactly I would go about trying to fix it is also a question.
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