Contact

April 9, 2008

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This page leads to the contact form for me, Erik Marcus. I publish Vegan.com. Over the years I’ve received emails from just about every unhinged vegan on the planet, as well as dozens more from drunken carnivores who think it’s hilarious to email me something like, “I love cows cows taste good hah ha hah.”

I’m flooded with email and am enabling this contact form with great reluctance, so a few things before you contact me:

1) Show some courtesy. Criticism is OK, but I don’t respond to nasty emails. In fact, I stop reading and add the sender’s address to my spam filter the moment an email turns nasty.

2) If you’re seeking an answer to a complicated veggie-oriented question that is not related specifically to my books, I’m not your guy. A forum like Vegan Represent or The Post Punk Kitchen has tons of people who would be delighted to weigh in. Likewise, if your teacher has given you some idiotic assignment where you have to ask someone twelve questions about their lifestyle, please take these questions to an online forum.

3) For Pete’s sake, please don’t ask me something that you could search for by Google. It’s great that your sister is getting married in Kansas City this spring, but please don’t ask me where she can get a vegan wedding cake. I don’t know why so many people think I run an on-call free reference service for all things vegan. I never signed up for this!

4) Finally, and I’m begging you, just because I’ve responded to your email does not mean I want to be added to your email list. That gives me the uncomfortable choice of either telling you to stop, or adding you to my block filter. Usually, to avoid nasty responses, I do the latter.

I realize that writing all of this may cast me in a harsh light, but the fact that I don’t need to be on medication after receiving so many despair-inducing emails is a minor miracle. With that said, I try to respond to emails in a timely manner if you have a real need to contact me. So, with all that out of the way, if I haven’t yet scared you off, here is my contact form.