Well, we all know it happens, and we hope that we are able to avoid harm by remaining alert and skeptical. We have been hearing over the past couple of years about authors, specifically, being targeted by online or email scammers. Robert Gray investigates the issue with one author and one publisher at the May 7th Shelf Awareness issue. Johanna Ingalls, editor at Akashic Books in Brooklyn instances an e-mail they received from a hopeful author, who was checking that the e-mail they had received from Johnny Temple, publisher of Akashic, was indeed legitimate. It wasn’t. “In it, a sophisticated bot (or this is what I assume it is) praises the author’s work and expresses interest in hearing about what they are currently working on,” Ingalls said. “The bot peppers in details from the author’s previous, self-published work, says everything an author would want to hear, offers to connect them with an agent, etc. As soon as we learned of this it seemed the flood gates opened. It seems we were…
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