ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Weston Ochse is a former intelligence officer and special operations soldier who has engaged enemy combatants, terrorists, narco smugglers, and human traffickers. His personal war stories include performing humanitarian operations over Bangladesh, being deployed to Afghanistan, and a near miss being cannibalized in Papua New Guinea. His fiction and non-fiction has been praised by USA Today, The Atlantic, The New York Post, The Financial Times of London, and Publishers Weekly. The American Library Association labeled him one of the Major Horror Authors of the 21st Century. His work has also won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won multiple New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than 26 books in multiple genres, his military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned to be a movie starring Dwayne Johnson. His military sci fi series, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. Weston likes to be called a chaotic good paladin and challenges anyone to disagree. After all, no one can really stand a goody two-shoes lawful good character. They can be so annoying. It's so much more fun to be chaotic, even when you're striving to save the world. You can argue with him about this and other things online at Living Dangerously or on Facebook at Badasswriter. All content of this blog is copywrited by Weston Ochse.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

My Email Exploded This Morning

I guess Amazon is getting more aggressive. Either that or I have more fans. I have a book coming out in October. No surprise to me or to anyone following me on facebook. But now it seems that everyone who's ever bought a book from me now knows because Amazon bulk emailed them. Funny thing is, though, that some folks thought that the email was from me, went to my website, and sent me emails. Some of them are down-right hilarious.

This was in the email everyone got.
A sampling of these emails include:

  • Stop sending me spam! I don't like your books.
  • So happy to see you doing so well.
  • Loving SEAL Team 666.
  • When is the movie coming out.
  • How'd you get my email address?
  • Can you introduce me to the Rock?
  • Cousin XXX got this from Amazon, where he obviously bought your books, and forwarded it to almost everyone on his family mailing list.
  • I didn't know you wrote books.
  • Cool logo on the cover. Are you selling it?
  • How do you pronounce your name?
  • I hate your guts!!!
  • Do you know Jonathan Maberry? Can you get him to blurb a book for me too?
  • Is this self-published?
  • Where do you get your ideas?
  • Why did you name the dog after a vacuum cleaner?
  • Please unsubscribe me from this list.
 I could go on, but you get the idea.

Of course I'm probably preaching to the choir. If you're reading this and you've ever bought one of my books from Amazon then chances are you received the Amazon bulk emailer too. Know this:

  • I didn't send this email.
  • I don't know when the movie is coming out.
  • I can't introduce you to the Rock.
  • I'm not selling the logo. MGM currently has the rights to it.
  • I didn't get your email address. 
  • Yes I write books.
  • Thank you for hating my guts.
  • I get my ideas from a  woman in Iowa who sells them on eBay.
  • The dog is named after a president.
  • Jonathan Maberry is probably too busy to blurb your book.
  • My name is pronounced like Oaks.
  • The book is not self-published.
  • And thank you for loving SEAL Team 666
I hope this helps everyone.

Have a terrific day.
Curated by at Labels:

2 comments :

  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2014 at 1:06 PM

    Why is a president named after a vacuum cleaner?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Weston OchseSeptember 5, 2014 at 2:36 PM

    HAHA. The dog is named after deceased Presidents. In the case of this military working dog, she was named after Hoover, our 31st President. There also happens to be a vacuum called Hoover, which I'm not sure if it's named after the president too, or not.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom )