Exposed: How a Fellow Author’s Shady Scam Turned into the Ultimate Payback – You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!
I’d genuinely love to stay in touch and hear more about what you’re working on. It’s rare and special to reconnect like this.
Warmly,
Taylor J. Reid
[She’s smiling? I’m hysterical!]
From: (My name)
Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2026 5:56 AM
Taylor, it’s so amazing to be back in touch after all this time. How kind of you to take an interest in my work! Right now I’m working on an article about book marketing scammers and con artists, focusing on the “fellow author” scam. They start by posing as famous best-selling authors, reaching out to unknown writers with tantalizing promises of simply trading stories about the writing life. The goal is a fictitious contract and introduction to agents and publishers who don’t exist…for a price. I got the one posing as best-selling author Leigh Bardugo to confess by threatening to report her for identity theft, but mostly I enjoy messing with them. Anyhow, enough about me. What are you up to?
