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Originally Posted by apesmom
I guess my luck with indies has been better but I've been pretty discriminating about what I buy.
I just went through my library to see how I've been doing on self-pubbed books I've bought and read, boy there's been some home runs and solidly rated books in that group. Some stinkers too but the good out weighs the bad by far. The bad were mostly early day purchases when I was still trying to find non-agency stuff. Overall, of those I read I do now have some favorite authors: Kristen Ashley, Kitty Thomas with R. Lee Smith & Brenna Aubrey heading up the list. Much of the other self-pubbed stuff I've read has been novellas that are part of a traditionally published series. Also trad pubbed authors that have gone indie such as Courtney Milan and Bella Andre. If anything my pace is picking up on indie purchases because I've had pretty good luck.
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I've had the opposite experience unfortunately. I often do read the excerpts. They can appear well-written and coherent. But as soon as you get to the next chapter the writing and editing fall apart. That has happened to me a number of times.
So nowadays I am sticking with only indies recommended by readers/reviewers I trust. I don’t even trust ratings at Amazon, etc. anymore because of the number of high ratings for the aforementioned books that had multiple obvious grammar issues. I am not the grammar police by any stretch of the imagination. But so many indies I have started (many were DNF’d) had sentences with verbs missing, wrong word choices, switching tenses within the same paragraph, etc. Stuff like that can happen in books released by major publishers too, but not nearly to the extent it does with self-pubbed books. At least in my experience.