From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Guy wants to give us free copies of his book
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:35:13 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Lubell" <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Cc: <WSFAfreebies at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Guy wants to give us free copies of his book

> I got this email from a person wanting to give WSFAns free copies of his
book.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested and I'll email him back with a
number
>
> >X-Sender: editorman at earthlink.net
> >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32)
> >Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:23:43 -0400
> >To: president at wsfa.org, vp at wsfa.org
> >From: "Steven J. Gordon, Esq." <Judicator at allreaders.com>
> >Subject: [WSFA] Scifi books
> >
> >Hi, my name is Steven Gordon, I am a novelist (18 books and counting!)
and
> >I am writing you to explore the possibility of giving each of your
members
> >a free copy of one of my science fiction novels. My intent in doing so
is
> >to increase awareness and interest in my writing.
> >
> >The novel in question is an action-adventure scifi book called "Attack
of
> >the Bounty Hunters", and here is a brief description:
> >
> >The Graftonites had incredible reflexes, making them superior bounty
> >hunters and almost unstoppable gunmen.They could draw and fire a blaster
in
> >a blink of an eye. Grafton II had evolved into a planet with no
> >government--a purely libertarian society where all services were
privatized
> >and civil disputes were mediated by one-on-one gunfights. But when the
> >Graftonites banded together to take over the galaxy, only superspy
Clifford
> >Croft, aided by Red Sally the always angry firestarter, the Clapper, an
> >eccentric telekinetic who liked to clap, and the legendary bounty hunter
> >known as the Silencer working together could try to stop them.
> >
> >You can see the cover and a sample chapter as well as more information
> >about my writing at www.CliffordCroft.com
> >
> >I was wondering if you would be interested in a free copy for each of
your
> >members and whether it would be more practical to simply send you one
for
> >all of them or if you could poll your members in advance and ask who is
> >interested. Before I could definitively say I could provide the books I
> >would have to know how many you'd be interested in.

Sounds like a piece of crap.   I don't need -- or want -- a copy.

--Ted White