PRO TIP: Sending me a spammy message to get me to review your work that says "I am reaching out to you as a published author with admiration for your balanced reviews on John Scalzi" is unlikely to work the way you think it will, and also, I am in fact extremely pro-Scalzi, not balanced at all
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I'd like you to review my work which consists of some barely legible words I jotted down on a bar napkin while 3 gin and tonics into the evening.
I will take a picture of said napkin and send to you for review if I am able to fish my phone out of the toilet I dropped it into.
"Why did I even write this?!?" -me
Pro Scalzis get paid.
No…no I do not…I did it all my big-boy self
There are sites that claim to have big databases of “influencers” that you can email and ask for reviews. Some even generate email templates for you.
I signed up for one because someone on YouTube shilled it and all their websites were last updated two years ago.
The spaghetti fling sucks!
1. Do your own Google search
2. LOOK AT THE SITE you’re emailing and ensure that they’re really a book review site.
3. Write an email that sounds like you did your own Google search and looked at the site. 🤦♀️
This is the bare minimum.
1. Scalzi? Meh, he’s okay.
2. Pro Scalzi.
3. Scalzi Stalker.