My Number One Fan

Such is the world we live in that anyone who writes a book nowadays is going to get bombarded with AI-generated scam fan mail, aimed at extracting money for non-existent services. Everyone, that is, except me. I've had plenty of offers to work wonders for my blog (which of course I ignore), but nothing for either of my books. Until today. In my inbox this morning was a mail from someone (or rather something) called Gloria J. Villegas. 'Dear Andrew', it began – not a great start – then 'I'll keep this short', which is invariably code for 'this is going to be punishingly long'. The lovely Gloria adores my book, The Butterfly: Flights of Enchantment and is keen to introduce it to the BookTok reading community, whatever that might be. She offers a rather lame one-line sell for the book, then helpfully relates its contents. She has 'mapped out a full approach' for my book, including 'video angles', whatever they might be, and she offers to send me 'the complete plan' for it, if I simply…

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