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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
How would you guide that person to the world of independent authors in a manner that would help them find a good book that would make them want to do the work to find more books like that as oppose to browse the aisle at BN?
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Quite simply put: I
wouldn't guide that person to the world of independent authors... or away from the B&N aisle. I'm not interested in converting people into indie readers. I'm only interested in convincing people not to
exclude a work/author based solely on how it came to market. And in convincing them that just because there's more and more crap out there, doesn't necessarily mean that you have to wade through more and more of that crap to get to where you want to go. Much crap is easily dismissable at a glance. Shills and sock-puppets aren't really very clever at all.
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Because I am that person who is interested but I really don't want to spend a ton of time reading sample after sample and not finding anything interesting. I tried that. It didn't work.
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... it seems you're not willing to use the simplest and most effective crap detector/filter at your disposal. The free sample.
Find a book whose genre/description/premise interests you (forget whether it's indie or trad) ... download the sample ... if they didn't butcher the language in that chapter and you still find yourself interested in the story, consider purchasing the book. When you then find an indie author whose work you enjoy, chances are they'll have an online presence/forum of some sort where fans will be discussing other similar works they enjoy. Boom ... you're on your way.
In short, if you often rely on recommendations from friends and you'd like to find some quality indie authors, then you might need to make friends with other readers who read indie authors. Online or otherwise. There's some here, and there's usually some to be found on every "Other Authors" section of every traditionally published author's online forum (official or un-).