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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I'm sorry, but I am compelled to give you another "Shameless Promotion," due to your creative post, listed above my paragraph. 
Don
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Dr. Drib,
I know you mean well. But it's not helping. I'm trying very hard to deal with my shameless self-promotion habit, which, as I've noted, has proven very embarrassing to my blameless books.
Also... I've been thinking, which is something I often do instead of working on my current novel-in-progress (so you can guess how that one is coming along). There's a difference between
shameful self-promotion and
shameless self-promotion. Shameless implies that a writer is without shame, while a shameful self-promoting writer would obviously be full of shame.
So which am I? Not shameless, even though there are those who would say that there's no shame in promoting your own work if no one else will. My books are ashamed of me when I self-promote. They don't think it's very dignified, and it makes them feel cheap. Of course, they are cheap. Just 99 cents. But that's beside the point.
So am I a shameful self-promoter? Well, I'm not full of shame. I'm full of something, that's for sure, but it's not shame.
Here's a thought. (They come to me randomly)
Since I'm compelled to self-promote, I think I'd feel a lot better if I could do it without having to attach a shame-based adjective to the act. Maybe we all would. Why bring up the shame? When you take away the shame, being a self-promoter doesn't sound so bad. In fact, it's akin to being a self-starter, a self-helper, a self-censor... even a self-made success.
OK. I feel better now. I'm going to stop thinking now, and start working again on my work-in-progress. Which someday, no doubt, I'll be attempting to proudly self-promote.