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As an aspiring author myself, I also have a strong interest in finding good indie writers to use as mentors.
It's exceedingly difficult to find people who are up-and-coming and yet not already well known. This is a little on the negative side, but I've found a number of "authors" gaming the system, in my view, by investing considerable amounts of money in web and cover design, professionally optimized Kindle pages, animated book trailers, purchased reviews, etc. only to read work that would get laughed-out of the first round of a neighborhood critique group.
Many indie authors aren't paying their dues. I also suspect that many authors who have a talent for marketing spend all their time on this and not honing their craft. This is the whole reason why traditional publishing existed in the first place. Marketing and writing should naturally exist as two separate talents.
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