Hello you! 

Thought I'd try posting this amusing and yet thought-provoking tale as a Storify piece.

Let's give it a spin... [View the story "Twitter Promotion Vs Twitter Cold Calling" on Storify]

What do you think, readers? God knows, I've got the self-promotion/spam balance wrong in the past when it comes to promoting my books via the Twitters. For me, the key thing isn't how genuine and well-meaning Grimnian Promotions are - they may well be the most splendidly valiant outfit on Twitter for all I know - but how they initially came across. And then, of course, how unreasonable one of them became. Speak your brains in comments below!

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