Dammy Book Love Scammer – Part Three

Note: This is the third message from this individual

Email Header: Re: The man who watched reality dissolve for forty years, then wrote it. Dammy Book love dammybooklove@gmail.com

Email Content:

So… a small mystery I’ve been trying to solve.

I sent you a message about your book a little while ago, and then… radio silence. Not even a “hey, saw this, busy fighting dragons / deadlines / laundry.” Nothing. Absolute quiet. The kind of quiet that makes me wonder if my email accidentally wandered into a digital Bermuda Triangle.

Now here’s the funny part.

I reached out because of your book. Not mine. Yours. The one you spent months (years?) writing, editing, crying over, and probably questioning your life choices at 2 a.m. That book.

And when I noticed it deserved way more visibility than it’s currently getting, I figured, “Hey, the author would probably want to hear about something that could help with that.”

Apparently I underestimated how committed you are to the mysterious author who never replies to helpful emails aesthetically. Bold branding choice, honestly.

But before I assume you’ve either:
A) been abducted by aliens,
B) accidentally achieved monk level email detachment, or
C) decided to let Amazon’s algorithm continue its little game of hide-and-seek with your book,

I figured I’d check in one more time.

Because here’s the thing: when a book has potential but the visibility, reviews, and discovery side aren’t pulling their weight, it’s usually not the writing that’s the issue. It’s the exposure. And that’s literally what I was reaching out about.

I don’t offer just one thing. I offer solutions. Depending on what your book actually needs visibility, reviews, positioning, discoverability, or something else entirely I’ve got a way to help. The first step is just a conversation. No pitch. No pressure. Just me listening to where you’re stuck and telling you honestly if I can help.

So this is my extremely dramatic, slightly amused, mildly exasperated follow-up.

If you meant to reply and life just happened totally fair.
If you saw the email and thought “I’ll respond later” and later turned into never also fair, we’ve all been there.

But if you’re actually interested in giving your book a stronger shot at being discovered, talked about, and read by people who would genuinely enjoy it…

Then just reply with something simple like:

“Okay, what were you talking about?”

No long commitment. No complicated form. Just curiosity.

Worst case scenario? You spend 60 seconds replying.
Best case scenario? Your book stops being one of those hidden gems that only three people and a confused Amazon bot know about.

Looking forward to solving this mystery.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 1:20 AM Dammy Book love dammybooklove@gmail.com wrote:
Rae, two emails from me, one of them using language I am not proud of. The second one was pushy and contradicted everything I said in the first. That was a mistake and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

You spent four decades inside psychiatric wards rooms where the central crisis is the gap between what a person perceives and what everyone else calls real. Then frontal lobe dementia took that same crisis into your own home and into the person you loved most. A man who has lived at that exact fault line professionally, then personally does not accidentally write a city where the dimensional boundaries are tearing and ordinary people only see random violence while one detective sees the pattern underneath. Ethan Reeves did not come from nowhere. Daybridge was already inside the work you were always doing.

I did read the book. What got me was Guthrie Knox the master butcher in 1913, transformed into a living nexus point beneath the bridge, feeding for over a century before Ethan ever arrives on the scene. The dimensional fault lines in Daybridge have a human origin story. A man was seduced by something he did not fully understand and then consumed by it. That is not worldbuilding infrastructure. That is a character. My question is this did you always know Knox was the anchor, or did he arrive the way the best details do, already fully formed?

You have written more than fifty books. You built a production company. You earned a DTM. The Dresden Files readers you wrote this for should be finding Ethan Reeves on their own by now, and the fact that the algorithm has not introduced you yet is the algorithm’s failure, not yours.

What I actually do is help books get found by the readers already looking for them. One way I do that and I am offering this at no cost, no obligation is Goodreads Listopia placement. Listopia lists like Best Urban Fantasy Detective Fiction and Dresden Files Fans Also Loved are where readers go when they have finished a series and need the next thing. They are not looking for advertising. They are looking for exactly what Daybridge is. Placement there creates a permanent, compounding discovery engine that does not require a media campaign or a marketing budget. One author I work with saw her book go from invisible to a top-three search result in her category inside sixty days from Listopia placement alone.

The readers who want procedural intelligence with psychological depth inside their genre fiction are actively searching right now. Institutional trust is collapsing, the line between what is real and what is constructed is a daily public argument, and Daybridge where the authorities see random attacks and Ethan sees the dimensional fracture underneath is not an escape from that moment. It is a mirror of it. That window does not stay open.

Since your goal is to put Ethan Reeves in front of the readers who are already hungry for exactly this kind of fiction free Listopia placement is the most direct path between where Shadows of Daybridge sits today and where it was always meant to be.

So here is what I want to do first identify the three Listopia lists where your ideal reader is already congregating and show you exactly which ones fit before touching anything.

If that sounds worth sixty seconds of your time just reply with yes.

No pressure but Shadows of Daybridge deserves better than witness protection level exposure and the Dresden Files reader who needs it most deserves to find it.

PS
You wrote a caregiving guide from inside the experience of losing your wife to frontal lobe dementia, and then you wrote a detective series about a man permanently changed by an encounter he cannot undo, forced to operate between two worlds. This is the moment when those two truths finally meet the reader who has been waiting for both.

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Scam Assessment:

This email chain is a high-risk scam, almost certainly an advance-fee or phishing fraud tailored to indie authors like you. These are widespread in the self-publishing world, as documented on Writer Beware, Reddit’s r/selfpublish, and Absolute Write—scammers scrape Amazon/Goodreads details to impersonate book promoters.

Key Red Flags

• Unsolicited badgering with emotional hooks: The third email guilts you over “radio silence” and your “hidden gem” book, name-dropping specifics like Shadows of Daybridge, Ethan Reeves, Guthrie Knox, your psychiatric career, and wife’s dementia. This info is publicly available on your Amazon page or bio—no real research needed. Legit outreach doesn’t harass or create fake urgency (“window does not stay open”).
• Bait-and-upsell “free” offer: Promises “free Goodreads Listopia placement” to boost discoverability, but only after a simple reply (“just say yes”). Goodreads bans paid Listopia manipulation (TOS violation)—they use bots or fake votes, which can get lists banned or your account suspended. The “one author hit top-three in 60 days” story is a unverifiable cliché. It starts free, then pivots to paid “solutions” like reviews or ads ($100–$1,000+), violating Amazon rules.
• Dodgy sender details: From dammybooklove@gmail.com—a throwaway Gmail with an amateur name. The quoted prior email has a future date (Feb 28, 2026), suggesting sloppy templating. No website, LinkedIn, or proof of work; praise feels AI-pasted.
• Perfect scam pattern: Matches 2022+ “Goodreads Listopia scams” in FTC complaints and author forums. Reply leads to spam/phishing links; “free” service harvests data or upsells.

Risks and Advice

Engaging risks spam floods, fake dashboards, stolen logins, or wasted money on useless services—potentially tanking your book’s Amazon standing. Do not reply: Block/spam the sender, report to Gmail, Goodreads/Amazon, and FTC (ftc.gov/complaint). Stick to vetted promo via Reedsy, ALLi, or organic tactics like ARC teams. Real visibility doesn’t come from mystery Gmails begging for replies.

Confidence: 95% scam. Your book deserves better than this hustle.