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It is utterly impossible to find GOOD newly released novels by independent authors. Impossible.
Oh, yes, I get the barrel-full’s worth of “check out my book” over on Facebook…and most of the books being promoted by their authors are absolutely dreadful. Yes, I get submissions through our long form, some of which are pretty good, but [...]
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I’ve got to make some decisions about this enterprise soon. I’ve got to decide if I really want to continue pouring time, effort, and money into continuing to promote books, especially since nobody seems much interested in helping, not the authors, not the publishers, not the audience. Speaking of audience, we’ve got a pretty good [...]
Why should someone consider reading your novel?–that’s the question you as an author need to answer when soliciting an agent, a publisher, a reading audience…or me. Instead of “check out my book,” do tell me why you think your book stands out as a book I really, really should want to read.
When you, author, ask [...]
Some folks love our book picks; some love the honest reviews. Some don’t, especially if they’re the author or publisher who’s received a less than positive response. Tastes in literature are many and varied. We make no apology for our choices and our ratings of the books we feature or are requested to review.
Independent authors [...]
Good grammar and punctuation? Why bother, right? How about spelling? Naw. Screw it. It’s all too constricting. It’s too confining. It stifles creativity. I mean, why pay copy-editors. Don’t need ‘em; don’t want ‘em. The public is too dumb to notice, anyway.
Bunk. It’s pure laziness on the part of independent authors, and, in the case [...]
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There’s a new measure of whether or not a book is a book, and that’s: “If it’s on Amazon.com, then it’s a legitimate book.” Notice that it’s not Barnes and Nobles, not Bowkers, not available via Ingrams or any other measure, but AMAZON.COM. Okay. Well, in that case, all books on The Deepening will henceforth [...]
There’s one major publisher who, lately, I’m purposely featuring their book catalog. That publisher is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. What I find so very encouraging about their present catalog is that I have yet to find one book that isn’t worth a good, solid look and, usually, is definitely worth buying and reading, cover-to-cover, too. Their [...]
