Posted by Larry Jordan on August 29, 2014, 1:04 am
For some time now, we have been keeping lists of customers who have ordered products from us -- my book and the CDs I've produced. This is in addition to the mailing lists for this website and the book for which a lot of you have signed up.
Since we are experienced magazine publishers we've decided to start a little newsletter that will not be posted here or anywhere on the web, but will be emailed to you and communicate directly with our many friends around the world. They truly span the globe.
(Last year alone, we had over 40,000 first-time visitors to our site and so there are A LOT of people who have made our acquaintance).
This newsletter (which we will call "The Update & Low Down"), will not be issued on any kind of a timetable -- just sporadically now and then to keep you abreast of some, shall we say, intriguing developments. It will be totally invulnerable to censorship, and we'll exercise our First Amendment rights to the max. Trust me on that.
You will be able to UNSUBSCRIBE from this list at any time, but I assure you, you'll find the information we provide most informative.
We're going to tell you some amazing stories about some of the behind-the-scenes goings-on that have taken place over the past years regarding Reeves matters and the personalities involved. A number of friends who are privy to some of these stories have repeatedly implored me to write a book about writing my book on Reeves. Indeed, a lot of bizarre things have happened in the almost 16 years since I first started researching "Jim Reeves: His Untold Story."
In lieu thereof, since I have so many other priorities right now (including four CD projects in which I am heavily involved), we're just going to be putting this emailed newsletter out incrementally as the mood strikes us.
We're going to name names and give you specifics that up to now have remained secret. For example -- we'll unravel the mystery about that strange package that arrived at our home one day postmarked Carthage, Texas -- mailed by David M. but with somebody else's name on it. This is a guy who handles the Bear Box set by putting on white gloves! Weird or WHAT? (Postal inspectors have known his identity all along).
Those of you who remember Kiplinger magazine may recall the Kiplinger letter, which was filled with juicy tidbits, insights and colorful items that weren't in the magazine itself. That's what we aim to do with our new emailed newsletter. It will feature info that isn't posted here.
It'll be "the story behind 'The Untold Story.'" You won't have to sign up for it because we already most likely have your name in our database already. Watch for it soon!
Larry, this idea for sending out a newsletter sounds like a great idea. I'm looking forward to it. I never thought about it before, but a book about writing your book would make for interesting reading too. From what's been posted here throughout the years, there sure have been a lot of bizarre things going on, and these loonies just won't give up with their attacks. These individuals really DO need to get a life!
It will be interesting to have a look at this new venture as and when it starts. But it might be prudent just the ignore the attackers as giving them ocean's of reporting space here is what they might be after in the first place!
What they overlook...
Posted by Larry Jordan on August 30, 2014, 5:35 pm, in reply to "Re: A NEW way to communicate with fans" Edited by board administrator August 31, 2014, 7:52 am
Oh but one of them DESERVES it so much as he's attempted to get this Fan Forum taken down by portraying himself as the victim and accusing us of maligning him even as his attacks on us remain online! You will learn A LOT more about this in our newsletter and the long, long history of this matter.
What he failed to realize is that instead of only a few hundred people seeing my responses here to his personal attacks on me, his outrageous and malicious attempt to interfere with our ability to communicate with fans around the world has backfired on him. You have to remember we have had contact with tens of thousands of fans. (There have been 1.4 MILLION visits to The Jim Reeves Way over the years). We've kept track of our interaction with Jim's fans by keeping copies of emails, we have thousands of people who have signed up for our two mailing lists, and we have a customer base. What started out as a hobby years ago has grown to be a globally interactive community of like-minded individuals who love Jim Reeves' music and are eager to hear more of it. We are in the center of it all -- not some webmaster in Holland who hosts many of the personal attacks against us.
Julie and I have heard from many of you and know you are offended by and deeply resentful of the cheap shots some take at us, and especially the attempts to discredit my book or interfere with the release of new music by Jim.
But these cyberstalkers live in their own little universe and are oblivious to all this. They fail to comprehend that no other Jim Reeves website can compete with ours or has as much credibility or outreach. And it continues to grow because every product my UK partner sells that I have produced -- ranging from CDs to DVDs -- has this web address and my book listed in it. And then there's the worldwide press coverage that has accrued to us, both print and broadcast, that even my harassers have jealously taken note of.
So the puerile attacks on us by some of the loonies on the fringes of the Reeves fan scene who habitually try to stir up trouble and even attempted this week to get us kicked offline, can and will be simply dealt with by our directly emailing our new newsletter to a sizable audience far beyond those who might by happenstance see our comments here.
We have every right to defend ourselves against scurrilous attacks and we will do so by the most effective means at our disposal.
The people who have been so obsessed with hating me for so many years just because I acquired Reeves items they wanted to get their hands on and hoard, etc. would do well to remember the old proverb that when you try to ride the back of a tiger you are likely to end up inside.