Can anyone recommend books for my kindle?

[FionaW]

Not the big names; they're pretty easy to find.

I had hope that the ebook market would enable me to find some new writers, perhaps self-publishing on amazon. However, with the rate of (probably deliberate) mistagging*, it's really hard to search for interesting stuff. I turn up a lot of thinly-disguised religious tracts, a lot of SFF erotica, and some badly written stuff about fairies.

It's really quite depressing.

If anyone has some recommendations, please bat them this way.

*If you doubt me, then search kindle ebooks/biographies and memoirs. Why are sherlock holmes, alice in wonderland and the scarlet letter on the front page?

 

[BookStop]

Amazon.com: Electronic Echoes of the Mind eBook: Wade Kimberlin: Kindle Store: Reviews, Prices & more

amusing space opera

 

[Captain Campion]

Not the big names; they're pretty easy to find.

I had hope that the ebook market would enable me to find some new writers, perhaps self-publishing on amazon. However, with the rate of (probably deliberate) mistagging*, it's really hard to search for interesting stuff. I turn up a lot of thinly-disguised religious tracts, a lot of SFF erotica, and some badly written stuff about fairies.

It's really quite depressing.

If anyone has some recommendations, please bat them this way.

*If you doubt me, then search kindle ebooks/biographies and memoirs. Why are sherlock holmes, alice in wonderland and the scarlet letter on the front page?

What types of stories are you interested in?

 

[J Riff]

welllllll... you can find stuff via torrents of course.... technically it's legal, or is it?

 

[FionaW]

welllllll... you can find stuff via torrents of course.... technically it's legal, or is it?

Um - I'm looking for stuff that I pay for, you know, the traditional 'author spends a year of their life writing book and readers pay to read it' kind of thing.

Most of us prefer to be paid for the work we do. Most of us grasp that if someone's work is constantly distributed for free, against their wishes, in the end everybody loses. I don't pirate and I don't steal. If I disagree with an organisation's actions, opinions or product, I neither buy nor steal from them. It used to be called integrity, but I'm starting to wonder if it even exists any more.

 

[FionaW]

What types of stories are you interested in?

Epic fantasy, character driven SFF. I'll try most things except thinly-disguised religious tracts, teen angst, cardboard female characters and anything where erotica takes the place of an actual plot. Not keen on 'let's start with a battle because that's exciting and it always hooks the reader' stuff either.

 

[Mouse]

Ok, I wasn't sure if this was available for Kindle but apparently it is. Yay!

As much as I hate plugging my own work, you might like: Smashwords - The Kingdom of Malinas - A book by E.J. Tett It's YA fantasy though, but I've been told adults like it too so you never know! Lots of strong female characters. No erotica or religion.

 

[Wybren]

Amazon.com: Electronic Echoes of the Mind eBook: Wade Kimberlin: Kindle Store: Reviews, Prices & more

amusing space opera

I will second that, it is a good read, and definitely not a thinly disguised religious tract or erotica or about fairies.

 

[Steve Jordan]

Fiona,
Feel free to take a look at some of my own novels in the Kindle store, hard to soft SF, presently being re-released after being out a few years (I'm in the process of a rebranding). Hopefully something there will appeal to you.

(Though the first Kestral book, ironically enough, starts out with... a battle! But it's a short prologue, and after that, no more battles... I promise!)