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Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a crime & justice story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 1 Nov 2026, 12:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn There’s no humble way to say it: I get a lot of fan mail. Almost every day, multi-paragraph emails…
Story timeline
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
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- The Guardian