Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:28:44 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Guy wants to give us free copies of his book
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 10:49 AM 7/19/2004, Barry L. Newton wrote:
>Interestingly, N Lynch said:
> >Sometimes even free is too much to pay.
>
>That about sums it up.  While I have some sympathy for the guy's creative
>impulse, he should hang onto his day job.  This is the kind of thing that
>people are paid by publishers to glance at and reject.  Nobody should have
>to actually read it.
>
>My first thought was that he had vanity pubbed his stuff, but the copy on
>his website looks too tacky even for that.  I bet he's doing his own
>version of print-on-demand. . .OTOH, if he can afford to vanity pub several
>novels, perhaps he can afford to pay us to read them.

For what it's worth, neither he nor his works show up on Amazon.

It sounds as if there's a consensus as to the response.

Elspeth