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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm happy to accept that I'm in the minority in doing so, but I'm very happy to have Baen's editorial team filter out the crap for me. It's a system that's worked for me for close on 20 years now, and one I'll stick with.
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Fair enough.
But you did present the "
this crap-pile (that you don't go wading blindly into) is bigger than this crap-pile (that you don't go wading blindly into)" as more of an all encompassing maxim than a personal opinion. In your case,
Baen is your filter... not all of traditional publishing as your post suggested. I'd wager that your 90% success rate would drop considerably if you started buying traditionally published books
completely and utterly at random (which is the only way the size of the crap-pile to be waded into should ever matter to anyone).