Thomas Rydder has a guest post on Victoria Dougherty’s site today. It’s worth a read.
Thank God for Indie Publishing – it is my opinion that we are far better off with it than without it. Is there a wider range of quality – undoubtedly. There are authors who are amateur, don’t properly edit their work, and put out a shoddy product. But I think that for the practiced reader, those are pretty easy to spot. All you have to do is have a look inside the book and read a page or two – which Amazon is very generous about. By and large, the real stinkers sink pretty quickly, too.
And you know, even if they don’t and there’s a market for the work… so be it.
There are also hugely successful and highly professional authors who do a far better job publishing their own work than their (usually former) traditional publishing houses ever did. While traditional publishing does some things very, very well…
View original post 2,153 more words
T. W. Dittmer 
Funny to read this now because I just finished writing my post for next week about book reviews! But mine is more about how I rate books. Is very benign. 🙂
LikeLike
Hey, Doc. Discussing reviews can be a quagmire. Thomas went through the ringer. Keep on keepin’ on. 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you, Tim. {mwah!}
LikeLike