INSTAPUNK ALERT: Phony Claims of Cash Problems

Word has reached us of a viciously false post at GOFUNDME dot COM which says:

IF I DON’T GET $50 CASH HARD MONEY BY NOON THERE WILL BE NO TODAY’S NEWS AT INSTAPUNK RETURNS TODAY

This is not true. Money orders have been coming in addressed to InstaPunk. This is an error. All money shipments of any kind would be valueless if they were not addressed specifically to Robert Laird. So you can see the GoFundMe post is a fraud. The Inspatpunk Times Post will be up later on today Or maybe a little later than that after the official cars outside go away. They showed up and stayed after Mrs. Laird made her first calls upon receipt of this email (reprinted below) from me, and haven’t left since she resigned as my literary agent at 2:46 pm yesterday. It was all a misunderstanding. Everybody stand down, please. But we would both enjoy a meal from McDs sometime today. We’re rich as hell, right, but since they turned off the electric for some reason, we’re not eating right. Can’t see well somehow. The pug and the Scottie are wishing they had some food too. Not your problem. The only cashable checks would be made out to Robert Laird. The bank’s already said nothing made out to Buster Scottie Laird is negotiable. Are we clear? There’s also this, if you want to chip in.

“Query Letter:

My husband is a writer with experience in every genre. He is working right now on a thriller with a detective named William Traylor, who is chasing down a nearly 20 year old Mystery with world changing implications. It is sci fi, it is noir, it is a breakneck chase with both federal and criminal villains, and a double love interest redolent of ‘Laura’ and the Medusa.

Here’s the kicker. It will be about a 250-page book. It will also be automatically plugged into a vast Internet context already online and available to snowball its mysteries into world’s readers will be able to discover on their own, hundreds, thousands of additional pages, artwork, video material, and related stories. That will make this proposed novel a jumping off place for many others.

You may not have heard of him. Other people have. This story is already out there embeded in the Internet. The key that will trigger the meaning of all the pieces that have been carefully planted before makes this the greatest best seller of all time.


What do I say to the agent?

What is the secret of the success of Sherlock Holmes? A lot of people  believe he actually existed. There is a place you can visit in London at 221B Baker Street. There are organizations of …. What if you could do it with one book?  There’s enough material for a dozen more books and as many movies. The characters are more diverse than the Harry Potter universe and more plausible. Who could do this? Somebody who really doesn’t care except for the challenge. The missing piece is simply something he didn’t want to do until he had everything else in place. The book that sets it all off is already partially written and fully outlined. I’m looking now because I’m his wife and I’m tired of waiting. Seen him write a book in 2 weeks. I know you’re pro his first manuscript editor worked on Faulkner and told Robert she had never seen a manuscript she was incapable of editing because changing the words changes the outcome.

I AM his wife not a secretary – Math,German, Russian. This is just the best seller part. He did Entertainment Tonight years ago.

The content consists of every kind of writing there is, convincing technology,  poetry, amazing graphic art, and a story.

Note to self: This is the first piece of writing that uses the full force of the Internet to turn a
60,000 word novel into multi-media obsession.

In The manuscript I’m sending you every mentioned character has a history that is already on the Internet and the mystery surrounding them is already on the Internet and in print.

What I’ll be send you are the first 4 chapters of a book called the Shuteye Train and one of hundreds of examples of how the back story is already in position on the Internet.”


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