[fjtorres]

I'm also a regular at BAEN but I do check out Indie SF&F titles regularly.
I happen to enjoy superhero fantasy and I've found several good authors mining that territory.

I don't see finding good Indie authors any different than finding good new authors. Period. I haven't found that the path the book takes to market says nothing about the author or the story. A good story is a good story.

What I have found is that Indie SF&F tends to explore further afield than the BPH imprints and do less pigeonhole cookie cutter stuff. Lots of quirky takes on genre tropes. There are plenty of authors writing to the market with me-too stories but there are a *lot* of idiosyncratic, labor of love stories that simply aren't commercial enough for tradpub.