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Originally Posted by Elsi
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.
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I don't even think its her fault either. I think she might have been informed by some unscruplous internet marketing guru how to go about getting publicity. That whole rigmarole of creating tons of accounts and trying to big yourself up as though you're lots of different people.
Or it could simply be that one is a pen-name, the other a real name? Writer's are shy creatures at best, and it might have been a way to deal with that?
We won't know until she returns, and I hope she does, because I'm enjoying her book so far (2 chapters in)
EDIT: Not chapters, Parts