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nomesque · 10-19-2009, 06:41 PM

Maybe you could devote a day every month or so to reading the first chapter of a few self-published books? In my experience, the first chapter won't necessarily tell you whether a book will be a gem, but it will generally tell you whether to run screaming from it :-)

10-19-2009, 06:41 PM	#18
nomesque Snooty Bestselling Author Posts: 1,485 Karma: 1000000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Ipswich, QLD, Australia Device: PRS-650	Maybe you could devote a day every month or so to reading the first chapter of a few self-published books? In my experience, the first chapter won't necessarily tell you whether a book will be a gem, but it will generally tell you whether to run screaming from it :-)