Ok, so fooling around one day with my poetry, i decided to enter a poetry.com contest. A few months later, i received e-mail and US mail saying i had been chosen to have my work published in a book that was scheduled to be out in fall 2002.
It asked me for money for the book, i believe it was $50 each book, if you order more than one, which i did. I ordered one for myself, and one for my family. Because my poetry is different than anything I've ever seen, i was excited beyond words. I thought my dream was finally coming true.
I waited. And waited. I kept getting mail from a Steven Michaels, asking for more money for this, and that. Commemorative plaques, greeting cards, a book on tape, and a supposed convention in hollywood. I disregarded it all simply because i was a bit skeptical. Good thing I didn't.
I still have yet to receive my books, which have been renamed since, and are currently unfinished for some reason, and am still receiving letters, asking for more money. Today I was sent a letter asking for the $169.00 for the shipping and insurance of the awards and medals I supposedly won, which, in my mind, are free...
Help, please. If you've experienced this, too, please make a report as well, I would like to know, should I report this as a scam, or simply wait for the book's NEW release date, of December 16?
Thanks for the time.
Kristy
Niagara Falls, New York
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