scam SCAM scam

Gosh I thought I had a pretty good scam detector. I'm a lifelong cynic and so private I've been nicknamed The Vault.
And then I got this text from a strange number the other day.

Kind of a red flag, right? But I read it and thought about the guy who wrong-texted a woman a few years back and now they all have Thanksgiving dinner together every year. So I texted back. It only took one more reply to realize it was a scam.

Blocked.
No new internet friends for me, I guess.

0 for 2

I embarked on a kind of scary enterprise a couple of weeks ago: pitching agents.

After looking around and selecting 3 who are accepting new clients, I crafted cover letters and proposals and e-mailed them out. So far, I'm 0 for 2. And not even good declines. Form e-mails. It's disheartening (but not unexpected).

Courage, I tell myself.