July 2003

(if you drop in here straight, you need to read the previous parts first to get the whole picture. Start reading with Poetry scam(s), Part I.)

Ok... Continuing on the XLibris story...
From my hotmail-account I sent another e-mail to info@xlibris.com. Now I didn't ask why I hadn't got any reply from them, but I simply put there that I had poetry that I wanted to be published and how I could do it the best way.
WHAM! Straight on the next day I got an e'mail back from a man named Khris McCants. To go short: he had been very pleased to receive my e-mail and there was some additional info about my work that he needed. How far was I with writing, did it needed some editing, publishing date, etc. etc. This was needed to find out if "we" would match of which he had no doubt. And if there were any questions I could e-mail him at Khris.McCants@XLibris.com. So... I replied to his e-mail, thanking him, as he had me, for taking the time to read my mail. Anyway... Read for yourself what I wrote:

Dear Mr Khris McCants,

Thank you also for taking the time to read my mail.
Which is a bit strange, I must say.
Is it your company-policy to structurally ignore e-mails of people who just ask questions and only reply to people that would provide you potential income?

Twice I've sent an e-mail to the reply address which I found in both the e-mails that I received from Mrs Megan Gallagher. On neither occasions have I received a reply. Then I also sent twice an e-mail to info@xlibris.com again without getting a reply.
Mrs Megan Gallagher seemed interested in my work and I was wondering where she got my e-mail address and which of my books she had read that made her so interested in helping me publish my next book.
These are still questions I would like to receive an answer to.

And then I added still some faked answers on his questions of planned publishing date, that I had both prose and poetry but that poetry was what I wanted to publish right now and that it was ready for printing, designed and all.
And then I sent it to Khris.McCants@XLibris.com.
It bounced straight back at me. Failure to deliver. That was weird!
So I copied the whole thing in a new mail and sent it to info@XLibris.com, the address where I first got the reply from. It seemed to be ok, until I checked my mail the next day and found it bounced back at me again. I resent it and up til now I haven't received a reply, nor has the mail bounced back to me.
I might have blown my cover here :o) But well... I have some other tricks up my sleeve. Which is the phone number with Mr McCants's own personal three-digit extension *evil grin*
So I'm going to give him a little ring on Monday...

TO BE CONTINUED!
Continue with Poetry scam(s), Part XVI.