That said, if you've got a (reasonable) personal request, or you're a friend of his in real life (like someone he knew in college, or from a newspaper he worked at) then I'll forward your email to him directly.

My name's Ros, just so you know. Short for Roswell, no relation to UFOs or aliens. It's an old family name (and, incidentally, the author's middle name).

No, there aren't any click-and-email links anywhere. Thanks to spam, you'll have to type in the address manually. Sorry about that.

Also, don't forget that second 'd' in the name. An awful lot of people try to write to johnsanford.org and I have no idea where their emails end up. Not with me, that's for sure.

That might sound kind of harsh, but it's a problem I've had to deal with before. Several times now, someone has tried to scam people by pretending to be the author. Sometimes they'll even use the author's photo, taken directly from the Facebook page. It's not him. The only official contacts are the Facebook feed, the twitter feed, and the website email. And I'm the one who gets all of those.

The author does occasionally do stuff under his real name — he's a regular contributor to some photography forums online — but don't stalk him there, please.