I keep hoping for the barrage of AI-generated author-scamming emails to slow down, but instead they keep coming — and are getting worse. This morning I find in my inbox fulsome praise of me for having written a book I only wrote a foreword for and an invitation from the (imaginary) host of an (imaginary) podcast focused on “stories of Texas” who wants to talk with me about Dorothy L. Sayers, because, really, who’s more Texan than Dorothy L. Sayers? It seems that the worse these phishing expeditions are the more likely they are to get past the spam filters.