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Originally Posted by gmw
There is such a proliferation of reading material available, and only limited time and money to spend on it. Covers and blurbs don't help reduce the list much. (Covers are so generic, so many good professional covers, but all so much the same within a genre that they offer little help in choosing). Whereas a quick look at the author's page showing what they've written takes me less time than reading a preview and gives me yet another way to cull a list back. Anyone with several novels under their belt obviously means business and could be worth spending some time on the preview.
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On your last sentence, I am not so sure about that one. I know an author whose first 6 books were very good. So much so, he was an auto-buy when the next one came out. It was a series but all could stand alone.
He had a good editor. Well written. Then along came book 7, I don't know if his editor didn't read it or he told his editor he knew what was best for his books or what. It was so horrible that I didn't even get halfway through it. His regular readers gave it very poor reviews on Amazon.
The book looked like he had listened to a certain group of people. (You must have nudity, you must have a quasi romance, you must be meticulously detailed about everything).
Nudity is fine if it has a purpose, no every main guy does not need to hook up with a woman, and some things the less details the better.
Needless to say, I haven't bought another of his books.
And back to the question, both please.