{"id":6420,"date":"2011-04-18T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2011-04-18T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T12:49:29","slug":"buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/buyer-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The wonderful thing about self-publishing is that anyone can publish a book. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The bad thing about self-publishing is that anyone can publish a book.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw that quote somewhere and it immediately struck a chord in me because it&#8217;s absolutely correct&#8211;both points.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to preface this post by saying, I&#8217;m an author and authors never speak ill of other authors&#8211;it&#8217;s written somewhere there in the <strong>Author&#8217;s Handbook of Etiquette<\/strong>. It&#8217;s considered pure blasphemy to take another author&#8217;s name&#8211;or book&#8211;in vain (that&#8217;s the second commandment).\u00a0 So having read this handbook cover to cover, I&#8217;m not going to do that.\u00a0 Authors work too hard, toil to long over their craft and are too overlooked and underrated for us to be turning on each other. Yes? Good, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>That said as a reader, I stumbled upon a very disturbing thing in the last few days. I sampled a book that was simply not ready for prime time. I will not name the book but suffice to say my first instinct was to post a review, a warning to other readers that this book needed work&#8211;a lot of it. And I&#8217;m not just talking plot work but extensive grammar work. There was a failure in the proper usage of dialogue tags and basic punctuation. This book epitomized why an editor is a MUST when it comes to publication.<\/p>\n<p>But while part of me read the sample going from something between shock and awe, my heart bled for this author. Why? Because no one would put their work out there for publicity scrutiny and judgement unless they thought it was good. Which meant, in the eyes of this author, this was a good publishable book. I seriously thought about contacting her; that was how bad I felt for her. I thought about emailing her a list of editors I thought might be able to help her. I thought about sending her samples of properly constructed sentences. In the end, I thought, this is none of my business and it will only insult her, so I did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is I have a site and a blog that, on the most part, caters to readers.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing this post. I&#8217;m not sure how many of you buy self-published books but for those who do I encourage you&#8211;<em><strong>strongly advise you<\/strong><\/em>&#8212; to sample any self-published book from an unknown author before you purchase it. I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s only $.99, sample it first. Most online book stores have a lovely little sample button, so it&#8217;s as easy as one little click.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But Bev, the book must be good because it has a solid 4 to 5 Star average.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hate to say this, and I&#8217;m sure most of you have already seen this, but that&#8217;s what family and friends are for. They want to help and I&#8217;m not knocking them for it, but their help is not always helpful to readers scouring the online book stores for something new, something interesting. So if you&#8217;re a reader who bases their purchases on reviews, read the review carefully. Is it vague? Does it sound like the reviewer actually read the book? Do all the reviews for that book basically read the same? And be very wary of a review that counters, point by point, a negative review.<\/p>\n<p>With digital books and now the surge of self-publishing, readers will now be the &#8216;gatekeepers&#8217;. New York published authors are self-publishing. Fantastic new authors with great books too &#8220;<em>nichey<\/em>&#8221; for New York are self-publishing. Formerly aspiring authors are publishing good books that just didn&#8217;t connect with the right editor. And yes, books not even remotely ready for <em>&#8220;primetime&#8221;<\/em> are hitting the virtual bookshelves. Soon, readers will not be able to <em>easily<\/em> distinguish a self-published book by one issued from the New York publishing houses at first or even second glance. So again, my advice is that if this author is unknown to you and is coming without a recommendation from someone you trust,<em><strong> SAMPLE!<\/strong><\/em> Time and money is too precious.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If you read self-published books, how are you finding them? How do\u00a0 you know you can trust the quality?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now on to books I can totally vouch for. Comment and enter to win one of the books below. 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