A one- or two-word mention of the genre should remove any concerns that it might be seen as a book about the environment. Concerns about British humor (there are people who don't like it?!) could be addressed at length in the post itself. Bookmarking your thread (or just dragging a link to it to your desktop) is much more convenient than trying to make it identifiable; all it takes is a bit too long away from MR, and/or an influx of writers with books to hawk, and yours will be off the first page anyway. A bookmark (or the forum search) will get you there much more directly. Oh, and your signature: I'd suggest putting the titles of your books in your .sig, with links from those titles to their Amazon sales pages, like so:
Something to Read on the Plane. It'll be clearer and easier to read. Publishing a book through B&N now makes it available to
two brands of e-readers, but still leaves out, say, me and mine. Not that I'm in the market for a children's book, but if I was, yours wouldn't be an option.
As far as not irritating people on MobileRead, the easy way to make sure your posts are good is to look at other people and see what they do. Also, MR members tend to like to think we're special, at least special enough for an author to write a few words specifically for us. When what we find in the post is a cut-and-paste of a book jacket blurb, press release, or announcement from fifteen other sites, our reaction is often "if that guy can't find five minutes to write something original for us, I can't spend five hours reading his magnum opus on the tail hair of guinea pigs."
Oh, and don't worry too much about me. I'm the resident curmudgeon.
