I don’t like getting spam emails as a general rule, but they’re usually pretty easy to filter and don’t cause more than a momentary spasm of irritation:
I am a real person and I wasn’t planning to comment at all today BUT wanted to just say I’m easily delighted by Women’s Hotel and most everything you write. Full stop. No action required on your part.
Sorry to hear how those bots are taking up your valuable attention, dang them.
I get these all the time for like, marketing and SEO for our website. "Hey, Spider, I just saw NerdyKeppie, and I was really impressed by your focus on queer community and Judaism. But it seems like your site isn't getting as noticed as it could!" Yeah, I'm sure you were really impressed. You and the literally six other "people" who sent me an identical email today.
It would be nice if I could find whoever is selling people these prewritten emails and kick them firmly in the knee. :|
These have become ubiquitous for me and it is infuriating. I think my biggest complaint is that however they're using the AI/Chatgpt/whatever it is to draft these, it's not that it's fooling me that's an issue, but it IS fooling the spam filters. Which means I do have to read them and sort through and mark them, rather than them being caught in the auto-filters.
My company recently got new more advanced spam filters and now I no longer receive weekly emails from widowed octogenarians looking to sell me their recently deceased husbands' grand pianos. Grand piano economy in shambles :(
This is at the bottom of these emails, just fyi!! “The sequel, Christmas at the Women’s Hotel, will be released in October 2025 and you can preorder it here.”
I am a real person and I wasn’t planning to comment at all today BUT wanted to just say I’m easily delighted by Women’s Hotel and most everything you write. Full stop. No action required on your part.
Sorry to hear how those bots are taking up your valuable attention, dang them.
I get these all the time for like, marketing and SEO for our website. "Hey, Spider, I just saw NerdyKeppie, and I was really impressed by your focus on queer community and Judaism. But it seems like your site isn't getting as noticed as it could!" Yeah, I'm sure you were really impressed. You and the literally six other "people" who sent me an identical email today.
It would be nice if I could find whoever is selling people these prewritten emails and kick them firmly in the knee. :|
(Hi Spider!!!! 👋)
Man alive...it fucking sucks that even like, authors with some Name status are dealing with the same shit as a nobody like me. Fucking spammers.
Even the spam is enshittified!
These have become ubiquitous for me and it is infuriating. I think my biggest complaint is that however they're using the AI/Chatgpt/whatever it is to draft these, it's not that it's fooling me that's an issue, but it IS fooling the spam filters. Which means I do have to read them and sort through and mark them, rather than them being caught in the auto-filters.
My company recently got new more advanced spam filters and now I no longer receive weekly emails from widowed octogenarians looking to sell me their recently deceased husbands' grand pianos. Grand piano economy in shambles :(
This kind of spam has been breaking my heart as my hopes are first raised, then dashed, that an actual human read and understood my obscure novel!
This is so irritating, I'm sorry you have to deal with this!!
It’s like a text version of the Uncanny Valley
This is at the bottom of these emails, just fyi!! “The sequel, Christmas at the Women’s Hotel, will be released in October 2025 and you can preorder it here.”
Also I am not a bot and I loved Women’s Hotel and I’m trying to get my husband who is an English teacher to teach it to his high school students
thank you so much for the reminder! will update before the next newsletter