I also dealt w/ this jerk who hit me up for editor connections, published a piece in the NYT magazine, & whose emails suddenly began auto-replying with "all inquiries can reach out to my agent" which is insane because I have an agent and can't even see him answering a text for me
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I've got so many stories like this. I wrote someone's metoo personal essay and they've never so much as acknowledged that I exist in the world of light (perhaps in the world of ruin it's different). I find this kind of brand behavior fascinating
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"Oliver, only you have the distance needed to tell my traumatic personal story" is the strangest solicitation I ever got, but this stuff is mother's milk to me
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This sounds like a small slice of hell.
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These people fancy themselves Big League, but I'm bylining the same crappy publications they are, who cares? I needed the $400 at the time and console myself with the fact that no one has really ever heard of their book, because no one reads books
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Closest I got to this was when someone followed me on all the socials, liked and @-replied my tweets for several months and then unfollowed me as soon as they found out I was just a contributor and not an editor at the website they wanted to write for. :)
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Yes, you didn't have the Klout they needed. Very similar brand behavior here in the marketplace of ideas
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