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Originally Posted by kcmay
I agree with Ficbot for all except #1. I don't care for certain types of genres, and I tend not to browse for them at all. But I've taken chances on writers based on their input in discussion threads (other than their self-promo), and in some cases I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the book. Admittedly, those books didn't suddenly turn me onto the genre, but I more than got my money's worth.
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I tend to go more by writer than anything else, the assumption being that if I have liked one of their books in the past there is a good chance I will like their new one. Some of the writers I like write in multiple genres, and I have discovered other writers through collaborations with them.
Completely new writers (to me) I would only really find through genre selection, and even then only when there isn't anything new from the writers who have already made my reading list. Another way to make it onto there would be if I read something by them in a genre short story collection and it interested me enough to see what else they had written. Short story collections need to be free for me to look at them, I don't know how feasible it would be to get together with similar writers and put one out on Smashwords, etc but that would be worth looking into.
I don't read reviews and don't take much notice of the pimp your own books forum in here. But I do see the mini-pimps that people add as a sig to their posts elsewhere. Never bought anything as a result of them, but at least I am aware of them. I've also downloaded a lot of free offer books from Smashwords that have been advertised in the deals section, but never read any of them. Two of them made it onto my reading device for a few months, but never got any nearer than that.