I knew nothing of indie authors before I shifted to ebooks and joined Mobileread.
I put SF authors such as;
Steven Lake
Thomas De Prima
Randolph Lalonde
Simon Haynes and
Dan Worth,
right up with other, popular authors running through a publishing house. There are others and my apologies for not including other authors on this list. Fantasy authors would need another list
Thanks gents, my to read list has never looked better