Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Stephen R. Pastore

The following is one of the reviews of Never on these Shores on Amazon.com. It assigns in its title the only characteristic for which Mr. Pastore might be considered notable.

"   	5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: 1.0 out of 5 stars Scam Artist, April 26, 2008 By 	Seano (Norristown, PA) - See all my reviews Mr. Pastore is a scam artist. You'll notice the review above says it's from LosAngelesTimesBookReview.com. Try looking that site up. It's a parking page, not the LA Times Book Review. The "Aldous Huxley" Prize he supposedly won for this book is fictitious. He made it up, and a friend of his made two fake websites to make it look real. I wouldn't be surprised if all of the reviews both above and supposedly from readers here were written by him and his partner in crime. His "publisher", Cohort Press, is listed at his home address. He made up his Wikipedia biography to say a book he hasn't published yet is nominated for a Pulitzer. He's a con man, and not a very good one. Don't give him your money."

The problem is that Pastore has not covered his tracks very well. The only thing that I could ascertain regarding donations/loans to Salve Regina University is that a "Stephen Pastore" did make them; no one, however, has been able to ascertain whether this Stephen Pastore and the person affiliated with the university are the same person. Those who have encountered this man in the flesh have determined that since he has lied about the vast majority of his life's details, this too is probably fabricated information.

One other indicator of his status as "con man." Mr. Pastore's self-published book, Guilt, quotes Isabel Allende on its cover. The quotation is designed to look as if Ms. Allende reviewed the book and raved praise on him. (One might check that if one knows how.) Ms. Allende probably did speak/write the words quoted.....just not about Pastore's book.

Wikipedia should also be aware that Mr Pastore does not appear to have the innocence of Walter Mitty. He has been luring unsuspecting young (and older) writers to his newly formed creative studio with promises of publishing connections (with agents for Cohort Press, no less). He is currently collecting uncopyrighted material for publication in a new Journal he's planning on producing. Those of us who have had dealings with him are very concerned that that material will suddenly find its way onto the market under the authorship of Stephen Pastore.

Please delete this article; Mr. Pastore does not need any additional fake material he can point to to promote himself.

'''(Note to JJL...I believe the website SaturdayReview.net is one of the fake websites. According to Wikipedia's own article, the Saturday Review went out of business in 1986.) '''Vrlc50 (talk) 04:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)