Forking it out of
THIS thread, because I don't want to hijack it any further.
I got to thinking that back in medieval times, there used to be guilds that would help standardize products. Newbies would come in as apprentices and learn the trade, then become journeymen and some ultimately master craftsmen.
So what comes to mind is that someone ought to start something like the SFWA, only for serious self- pub authors. Have a trademarked logo that members can put on their ebook covers as a mark of quality, an application process in which prospective members can submit published or unpublished works and either be accepted as members or given probationary membership and paired with a mentor, a news-PDF, and all that.
Anyone else like the idea?