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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Just to be clear, is there some prohibition in promoting your own ebooks here or are you guys just ragging on Jill for the sport of it?
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The problem is that jillforest is promoting a book by "Anna Westwood", but from all the available evidence, Anna Westwood is Jill Forest. Just like Tracy Falbe, Steve Jordan, Chris Howard, April Hamilton, Simon/Spacejock, and Jeffrey Carver, she'd be welcome to promote her book and discuss it with the members of MobileRead.
But, by posting as if she were a person other than the author, she appears disingenuous. (By the way, dictionary.com says this: "The meaning of disingenuous has been shifting about lately, as if people were unsure of its proper meaning. Generally, it means "insincere" and often seems to be a synonym of cynical or calculating.")
Harry was just calling her to "fess up" and tell us that she is indeed the author. And, like Moejoe, I'd enjoy talking about the process of writing the book and getting it published. Steve Jordan has contributed a lot about his early struggle to break into the mainstream publishing scene and then deciding to just self-publish. Jeffrey Carver's postings about using his early books to promote the publication of the newest in the series have been very interesting, and we find that Carver has been actively promoting understanding of eBooks among the SFWA.
Come back Jill/Anna. Tell us more about your book than simply that it's free.