ASHLAND, Ore. (TNA) – Sony told him "fuck you." Spyglass Entertainment called him an "incredibly large asshole" and his book "a piece of shit." NBC tried to shut down his website.

Yet after all this and literally thousands of rejections letters for his book, "Ginny Good," Gerard Jones, master of the publicist/agent/producer email directory www.everyonewhosanyone.com, remains at large.

Agents and producers hate how Gerard Jones makes their addresses and phone numbers available to aspiring writers.

Love him or hate him – as many in the media who fear an onslaught of unsolicited projects do – Jones, 65, remains a dual triumph and tribulation. After taking to the Internet in 2002, he has remained a tireless juggernaught, maintaining his list for all the public to see. Despite overwhelming backlash, he and the site are still going strong.

But it hasn't won him any popularity contests.

"[I've made] many, many, many enemies," Jones says, "but mostly only people who don't know me or haven't read or listened to my stuff. You can do two things, ’write to sell‘ or write stuff worth writing."

Not much, in his opinion, is worth writing — or reading, for that matter.

"Unless you come up with the derivative drivel that some dimwit agent can pass off as the next Dan Brown or the next Stephen King, your work's going to be resoundingly ignored," he says. "With rare, rare exceptions, money-grubbing twits run publishing and the rest of media and entertainment, period."

Though many of the agents and media bigwigs on his list request to be removed from the site, Jones staunchly refuses to do so.

"I don't see any harm in leaving you guys on my little list," he writes in a letter to the Weinstein Company, who wished no part in his website. "Basically you guys are who you are and do what you do and that information is readily available on the Internet so I stuck it in my little directory," he says simply.

To NBC, who almost threatened to sue him, he said simply, “One man's spam is another man's filet mignon."

"Hollywood is run, as far as I can tell, mostly by serendipity and money," he continues in his email to Weinstein. "Something might strike the right producer, editor, actor, director, agent, manager, assistant in the legal department, secretary, mail room guy, etc. at the right time and voila."

This is what he had hoped would happen with "Ginny Good," a somewhat biographical novel that chronicles the life of his friend who he describes as the "the first hippie."

 After finishing "Ginny" in 1998, Jones shopped it tirelessly to no avail.

"My stuff has now been rejected upwards of 500,000 times and counting," he says.

Finally, in 2000, Jones snagged an agent and "Ginny" was published by Monkfish Book Publishing. Now the author is in the midst of trying to sell it as a screenplay idea. Some, such as the Trilogy Film Group, at least accepted Jones' submission; others were less than enthused and gave Jones the cold shoulder, offering the line, "We do not accept unsolicited material."

Jones’ response? "So solicit 'em."

More often than not, continued correspondence with the companies has gotten ugly. "Does ’YOU ARE OFFICIALLY REJECTED‘ make it any clearer to you?" wrote one Miramax executive.

"Do you just like to shit all over everything and somehow think people are going to care?" asked an employee at Mandate Pictures.

Others, however, get a kick out of him. David Salzberg of Mandalay Pictures wishes him good luck. A columnist at the Miami Herald tells him, "Yo! Keep on sending me stuff! Peace out!" and Jenny Bent of the Trident Media Group writes, “As one of your ignorant ignoramuses, I have to thank you for the always entertaining e-mails. Keep up the good work."

And that's exactly what Jones is doing. Besides maintaining his website, he is still, as tirelessly as before, shopping "Ginny Good" – which he has recorded as an audiobook as well – to various production companies, sure that it will one day be a blockbuster movie.

"You'd get so blown away by its brilliance you wouldn't be able to eat or sleep until you had a hand getting a movie made out of it," he tells one exec. "Go get yourself a copy and see."

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