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Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
Sunday, November 1, 2026 · 12:00 PM
The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn There’s no humble way to say it: I get a lot of fan mail. Almost every day, multi-paragraph emails arrive from passionate and well-informed readers in Barcelona and Frankfurt, Chicago and Warsaw. They have appealing names like Bella Monroe, Thali
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