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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
Ahhh, I wish! It's a site set up in a way that I have to pick a book based upon the blurb (and if I'm really, really lucky I also get a short excerpt) alone. The site has a mixture of small press, self-published, and the occasional traditionally known press. I've taken to ignoring the extra small presses as well as the self-published. My luck has just been too bad...
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That sounds like a nightmare. Unless it's a well known independent press, I treat all small press fiction like self-published fiction: quality really varies. Can't you press them to make a sample available before you commit to reviewing? Descriptions usually don't mean crap, some of the best descriptions have the worst books.
The whole quality-issue-need-to-sample-thing is also the reason why I don't accept ARCs (despite having been offered several), because I want to review the final ebook edition, so I can tell the public that it's good on all areas of story, formatting, etc.