Thread: Free/Bargain Science Fiction & Fantasy in January 2014
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:01 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Difflugia View Post
Maybe instead of a flat "no self-pubs", the bar needs to be that you have read and enjoyed any that you post (or are at least willing to vouch for some level of quality). I agree that there's a lot of chaff in the self-pubbed books, but I also have found a selection of self-pubbed authors that I quite enjoy.
I'll second that suggestion, especially as there are some tradpub writers who've started self-publishing at least some of their work. I can think of a few cases where a series was being traditionally published, then the publisher dropped it, and the author self-published the rest.

Seanan McGuire is a useful example; she's got a two-book* tradpub UF series for which she's published three tie-in stories in tradpub anthologies...along with several more tie-in stories that she just self-publishes on her website in assorted ebook formats. IIRC, three of those self-pub stories were up for Hugos in 2013. To further complicate things, a small press (associated with a convention) has collected and published two volumes of stories that she originally self-published in a similar way.

* Soon to be more; book three of at least four comes out in a couple of months.
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