I just got an email from Esquire, the magazine. I don’t subscribe and I don’t purchase it off the rack, so I’m not sure where they got my email address. Maybe from the guys who try to sell me all those ‘ego boosters’ every day.
They want me to send them back a ” What I’ve Learned ” email. Presumably so they can publish it with a few others that reply and maybe make an article out of it. Or a book.
Think of that. If 25,000 people respond and we’ve all given them permission, they just got a free book written for them. All they have to do is format and publish.
Heck, you know we’re all gonna buy a copy to see if we’re in there. 25,000 copies sold in the first week to all of us goobers that sent back the email. AND, we already know what we said !
I’ve thought about it and I may try to come up with a set of ” What I’ve Learned ” rules in the next couple of days, so I can get in there with the rest of y’all.
Help me out here and let me know what you’ve learned, life lesson wise. Maybe I can just steal yours and I won’t have to do any thinking of my own.
That would be simple. My kind of style.
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You could try something along the lines of “I’ve learned not to respond to calls for vanity publication…”
That’s a pretty good one for starters, Gary.
I went over to your blog and I like what I see. I’ll get over there tonite to Pluck the RSS feed and I’ll be looking into telling both of my readers about it and I may Blog Roll it.
Thanks for coming by and moreso for the comment.
Mike
You’re going in on my blogroll as well – we could double our readership to 4 readers!
Consider them doubled !