Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back

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 turnThere’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 read…

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