I’ve mentioned in the past that I get emails asking me to be part of book clubs — emails that are usually some sort of spam or phishing, trying to get me to buy some sort of marketing package. Here’s one of the latest ones:

I’m reaching out from [company] to invite you to join us for a conversation around your book, [book title].

What stood out to us is how the work opens up a broader discussion around identity, belonging, and the ways personal experience shapes perspective. It’s the kind of narrative that naturally extends beyond the page into a thoughtful, on-air dialogue.

Given the ongoing conversations around cultural identity, representation, and how stories influence public understanding, your work feels especially timely.

I’m sorry, but that is nothing like what this book is about. There’s very little discussion about identity or personal experience shaping perspective. There is a little about belonging, but it’s not the main part of the book. The book is about a guy who escapes a crime syndicate; it’s not intended to be deep or philosophical. It’s pure space adventure (written under another pen name) with aliens, spaceships, and weird planets. There’s a little sex, too, because it’s me writing it, but it’s not the focus of the book.

At least some of the AI-written slop trying to get me to buy marketing packages tries to write something accurate to the book, but this one was literally just a shot in the dark.

A shot that completely missed.

Nice try.