When a "fellow author" from New York (who strangely can't send a simple web link) tries to pitch you on "marketing services," there is only one logical response: In-character sci-fi nonsense.

I spent this morning explaining my interplanetary transportation funnels to a scammer who just wanted to talk about "sales funnels." Apparently, their investment portfolio doesn't cover Martian people transport yet — just transporting money from the pockets of unsuspecting writers 😛

Friendly reminder to my fellow writers: if someone slides into your DMs to "connect" and immediately pivots to your marketing strategy or asks for money, they aren’t your peer — they’re a bot or a grifter. Keep your wallet closed, and your sense of humor open!

And always have some fun with them. Who knows, it might get that creativity juice flowing 🙂

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@f I have a proposal from a fellow artist and author, no selling involved, for mutual authors/artists support. No scam, just a fellow artist want to break the social medias cages. Are you interested? I can send you the "master plan to conquer the world" (just kidding, yet I'm serious about it).

@renatozechetto I'm always happy to talk to (or hear from) actual artists and authors 🙂Just not interested in the scammers ...

So, willing to listen to what your proposal is.

@f thank you so much!

@f well, I'm still fresh on mastodon, getting used to it, so I couldn't find how to send you a private message. Anyway, it is about a plan to make a publication that is meant to build authors and artists community on help each other to promote and create audience collectively. It is in its early stages of development, yet it is based and have a realistic plan.

@renatozechetto Sounds interesting. I sent you a WhatsApp message via your site. If you respond on WhatsApp, we can discuss further (and more at length) than going through the text limitations on here etc 🙂