Which ones are your favorites so far? 🤓

One great sci-fi author who publishes that way and might get lost in the noise is Greg Egan. He's probably in my top 5 living sci-fi authors, but everything is, like, $4.99 Kindle releases.

That is the nature of all creative arts: The big boys take it all (bands, authors, artists, actors). Nobody has the time to wade through mountains of shit just to find a raw gem - even more so in today's age where anyone and everyone can be a creator. So everyone just sticks to what has labelled ...

The best sellers effect

I'm writing my first novel right now and when it's done I'll have to figure out how/where to encourage people to read it. I wonder if there's a V4V indie book store similar to what Wavlake is doing for V4V music...hmm

I recently finished an 8 book series in the niche "litrpg" that was published a chapter at a time on royalroad.com . It's not always the finest literature but some can be quite entertaining. It's an interesting direct to consumer model. They must monetize with ads, but why not zap ⚡ your favorite...

I've taken to audiobooks far more than reading as I can still work while listening. I may not get as much of the content as if I was reading but it is far more than not. But I generally am listening to non-fiction, like your book.

I want to return all the good times listening you by doing a suggestion: The Devil to Pay in The Backlands, by Guimarães Rosa. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2233980

Some hit just the right niche at just the right time that I can accept a mediocre book 🤔

I’m the same. I have my list of authors of fiction that I stick to. Occasionally a new one will make the list, but rarely. Non-fiction is an entirely different case.

In Amazon, you sell the digital version of your book for a penny, during a limited period of time. Then you became best seller and can write that in your book. It is all a scam. Your book can be garbage and show as a best seller.

I disagree that "indie-published" is more likely to be mediocre. I am constantly astonished at the poor quality of "traditionally" published books.

Same. I did finally decide to read the foundation series by asimov a year ago. Oh and contact by sagan. I get most of my science fiction from Isaac … something 😅 on YouTube. “SFIA” Actually lemme find you a link https://youtube.com/@isaacarthursfia?si=y0gkC01Kj2itlAqv

Some books only apeal to a small crowd. I'm guessing there are some genuine 5 star reviews on those books.

There are tons of indie publishers publishing phenomenal fiction, especially in the translated world. Other Press, New Directions, Charco Press, Dorothy Press, Zerogram, and NYRB for a larger “indie”.

Incorporate some thrift store fantasy books into the rotation too! Also I’m not sure you should analyze creative writing just write what you like, right?

I’m not big into marketing my work so I’m not 100% on all the details but this is what I’ve noticed: there are a lot of genre junkies out there who read just about anything within the scope of their preferences even if it’s mediocre. You see this a lot in the “splatterpunk” and erotica g...

I’m deep into Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Ederlings series. SO good.

Baffling to me is that there’s a whole industry of “writers” who are just businesses that hire ghost writers and publish under a pseudonym on Amazon publishing. I met a guy whose pseudonym is known for vampire romance novels. He doesn’t write them, of course. He has a whole team. He says t...

I recommend the Orphan X series. Just wrapping it up and its been a fun 9 books.

Geez you have time to read fiction? I did that as a youth reading all the great European classics like The Idiot, Les Mis and Madame Bovary…to establish a solid understanding of human nature from those classics—now I mostly read book about ideas and concepts i.e. Broken Money (thank you for writ...

Novels by Daniel Suarez are quite good, a modern day Michael Crichton using cutting edge tech facts to weave great stories.

You might enjoy Drew Hayes as an author. He has multiple series happening. I am enjoying NPCs which is a D&D based series. The other is Villains’ Code which is a fun spin on the superhero genre.

I often wonder who makes all the YouTube videos about every random car repair scenario. Like who, actually, does it. Someone. Obviously.

let's not forget that very often in history, those indie authors became classics only after their death. There are many examples of completely unsuccessful writers or painters that one would categorize like the ones you mentioned. They died unsuccessful, poor and unrecognized. 50 years later their w...