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Originally Posted by Hitch
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We've had an inquiry and as such, it has no interior email, no questions, nada. What I did receive is a 465-page (!!!) PDF, that's a diatribe against life in general and a recitation of this person's history, starting with the statement that he's a victim of bigotry (specifically, white supremacist racism), and then goes on to illustrate how he's been honey-trapped by all these women over the years, and courtrooms have done weird things to him, and on and on and on. Details things like how his power "mysteriously" goes out when he's researching Canlii.org cases..that kind of thing.
And on and on and, oh, yeah, on?
I really hate it when we get these. it's not...it's not funny to me. I mean I can see how if you'd never had a bad experience around something like this, it might seem a bit humorous, but firstly, you're somewhat up close and personal with someone who has very obvious and unmissable issues. Secondly, we had someone like this--some of you may reall-back in 2011 I think it was, who decided that we'd changed the text of his book (!!!), hopped in his car and drove across three states (Western States, mind you, so not kidding around!) to come "find us" and "make us pay" for what we did. That...was exciting. And yes, we were in a real office at the time, publicly-available info...eeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
And I never really know how to...sort of break it off safely. I suppose we could just quote a million dollars and let it go. That makes me feel like I'm just doing to him what life did to him--blowing him off, condescending and all that. Patronizing which isn't my intent, but I'm not making this cursed book. It's got screaming bad juju all over it.
I hate to...IDK, there's no great way to handle this crap, there really isn't.
sigh.
Hitch
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Sounds like they didn't actually ASK you to publish their book. I'd just throw it into a "linger for a year and then Trash" folder. Basically ignore it, but maybe not pitch it wholly. Until/Unless they actually ask you to work on it; they say No.