First, I came across Savannah Gone because searching for hard-boiled detective mysteries on Amazon. I was searching because I’ve exhausted all my favorite detective series, everything from Mike Hammer to Virgil Flowers. I love a good detective story, and Ray Fontaine filled the bill. Some reviewers thought the cars and chicks were cliché, but macho stuff is a necessary component in a hard-boiled detective (except in the case of Kinsey Millhone). The book might not win many awards, but it was engaging and entertaining, and that was what I was looking for. I hope Doug Keeler adds to the series – I would read the sequel.
I understand the complaints about typing and grammatical errors. Some find such imperfections distracting, but this is a sign of our changing times. Online news, by gifted journalist, is fraught with such errors, and we accept it because the content we want is there when we want it. Social media, with no filters, has become an official form of communication (and not just the President). The benefit is that we get our itch scratched quicker, and we have access to things we wouldn’t have otherwise.
The ability to self-publish your writing is akin to what happened in the music world. Self-publishing, has given us access to musical artist that would never have made it through the rigorous filter of corporate music. Some of these artists are now on top of the charts, but we wouldn’t have heard of them if it weren’t for their own YouTube channel. The same thing is happen with self-publishing.
I wrote a mystery several years ago, but I could never make it through the gauntlet of finding a literary agent. Last year, a friend asked if I had thought about self-publishing. I told him that’s Vanity Publishing, and the result is a garage full of books you can’t sell. But, he sent me a link to the series he was currently reading – the author was self-published with several books on the best sellers list. I looked at Amazon’s self-publishing site and found that I was currently reading a series that was self-published. I’ve now taken that step, and Amazon makes it extremely easy. I know this means there is going to be a lot more chafe among the wheat, but I’m glad I sifted-out this nugget by Doug Keeler.
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