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Old 18th September 2007, 10:11 AM   #6 (permalink)
Allegra
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Re: Awful approach letter

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Originally Posted by I, Brian View Post
It's one of the weirdest letters I have, and the language reminds me much more of Nigerian 419 scam emails - ie, I have £100 million to move out of Africa if you would let me access your bank account to move it - and yet, there's no promise of money involved.

God knows what sort of weirdness agents and publishers have to deal with, then.

LOL! At least the Nigerian emails' English is better than this! I wonder if the XXX Island book is Prince Charles's "nonfiction love story", perhaps not, as the 'author' pointed out it's about "very interesting characters doing interesting things".
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