Holly’s Comments (group member since Feb 23, 2017)

Holly’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

"I've read some excellent indie published books, and I've read trad published that was rubbish."

This. I've read trad published with errors as well, so that excuse, (it's a clean, well edited book) doesn't fly either. Too many novels published by the Big 5 have also been so edited they blend in to one another. I don't mind a few mistakes here and there if the story is good, the characters are excellent and it speaks with a unique voice. Publishing, (and to some extent the entertainment media as a whole), seems intent on pushing out predictable, homogeneous content; Indie gives an alternative to that.

I read that article not long after it came out and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the overwhelming majority of the comments (at the time), were in defence of Indies.