This is why predatory journals that email you soliciting articles should be avoided:
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Clarissa's Blog 
Disgusting. I feel like there has to be some way where this is illegal. This is in the same category as for profit “universities.” Making a mockery of higher education.
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I get invitations from such journals at least once a day. I’d be very interested in knowing how they found me.
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I get them too. More so when my title was still “Assistant Professor.” I think that they massively target people who are Assistant Professors and desperate for publications.
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Now I REALLY want to get tenure. 🙂
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If your e-mail appears on any legitimate journal article you have written and published then that is where they found you.
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I don’t think it does but I will need to check. My work email is on the university website, so that’s clear. But they also write to my personal Gmail.
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I assume that they maintain a database of all faculty and recipients of advanced degrees from accredited universities, together with their university e-mails. I have been receiving several “solicitations for papers” each week since I got my Master’s Degree.
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There are American “literary” agencies that promise to publish your poetry for a fee as well — along with all the other aspiring housewife poets. And those who offer to “mechanically edit” your book — which would be fine if they showed some literary flair or even comprehension of your book. But imagine if all the sentences were transformed into somebody’s idea of a grammatically correct form. Perhaps words could also be looked up and replaced with other words more known by everybody. I imagine that would produce a product suitable for American housewives. But not literature. Sometimes a word that the subconscious throws in, which is a malapropism, actually turns out to be an even better word than the one originally intended. I pondered long and hard and left such a word in one of my books — because it really does do the job ten times better than a more conventional word I may have had a mind.
Retain control, use skill rather than mechanics, and always watch out who you are dealing with.
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Were there always little white dots falling from the banner of your site?
If so, I respectfully demand that someone put together a version of Asteroids for those little white dots. 🙂
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The snow only gets turned on between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s my favorite visual effects on the blog. I wait all year for it.
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I’m pretty sad that I never thought of responding to these solicitations in this manner.
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