Saturday, September 08, 2007

How to get zero response to your query

I'll skip over the five really less-than-smart things this querier did.

Here's the reason this person will never see my response--which wasn't even a form rejection:



Thank you for your recent email. My inbox is protected by ChoiceMail One, the leader in anti-spam technology. ChoiceMail is holding the message you sent because your email address is not on my list of approved senders.

Please click on the link below. This will take you to a sender verification page. Sender verification is a one-time process which takes only a few seconds. This will let me add you to my list of approved senders and receive your original email.

ChoiceMail sender verification: Verify your identity here

Please be aware that if you do not complete sender verification within 4 days, ChoiceMail will automatically delete your original message.

The only thing I do with these auto-replies is laugh at them and delete them (ok..and post them on my blog).

The REALLY funny thing is this email wasn't sent by the author but by someone PAID by the author. I really wonder what the bill is going to be for this little adventure and how they're going to explain the sent-down-to-the-minors batting average.






Friday, September 07, 2007

Madeleine L'Engle dies

Sad news from PW Daily just now

Madeleine L’Engle
Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 89. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which were published by FSG. This spring, the Square Fish imprint of Holtzbrinck reissued L'Engle's Time Quintet in new editions.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Reasons I love my job #32

I'm reading the next Baby Shark book and this line just made me laugh out loud:

"Buford was trouble looking for someplace to happen"


Baby Shark's next adventure is set in 1956 and one of the fun parts of this job is double checking for anachronisms. With a former client I had to find out how many digits were in a phone number in 1932 (not 7!) and when police radios were invented. For this one I get to look up songs and shotguns!

I love my job!


And if you haven't met Baby Shark yet, click on this link to Amazon