I have NEVER had a competent pitch from anything that didn't turn out to be a human. I get emails daily that are absolute word salad. The only thing it has done is make it even more important that if you ARE human you take the time to write a proper pitch.

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I get 50+ of these a week and I never used to get any. If one of these was for a legit book club but sounded like this they'd get tossed in the trash with the rest. bsky.app/profile/most...

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Well if someone is sneaking competent pitches past me then this doesn't apply to them? The thread is literally about how we get endless emails of slavish creepy zombie praise for bookclubs that are almost always clearly fake describing our books in ways that make no sense.

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Except when it doesn't. You absolutely should be rejecting incompetent submissions however they are written, that's just rejecting incompetent submissions.

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in fairness, if I were ever to cold-email an author and was saying I'd loved their work, I'd want to include some kind of proof that I had, in fact, read their work. However I suspect I'd be able to do better than "an LLM read the title and maybe the goodreads summary" levels

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