Let Your Indie Flag Fly

I had great trouble deciding what to write about for this. I mean, picking one indie book? Impossible! So I’m thinking I’ll do a post for every day of indiependence week. That way I get to cover MORE BOOKS!

So, to begin, I’m going to talk about serials. I love serials.

I can read the entire installment over lunch break! It’s like a t.v. episode! The best ones update a lot! What else do you need? And, and, indies are leading the charge on these! There’s some trad pubs stumbling along in the indie’s unstoppable wake, but mostly it’s an indie movement.

The idea is that serials are good for cell phone reading. Like, you’re waiting in a long line so you read a serial. Convienient! How fitting for our current attention spans! (I don’t know about you, but mine’s, like, five seconds.)

So I guess I should highlight some actual serials. (And, umm, some of them are from Indelible authors because I’m not sure how I can leave them out? So SORRY I’M BREAKING THE RULES PLEASE FORGIVE ME.)

I’ve read through most of RaShelle Workman’s Blood and Snow serials. Quick and dramatic, great fun. I believe I found out about these through cool little text picture things she made. What are those things called anyway? With the book quotes on them? I adore them, but somehow have never tried to name them before now...

On my ‘to read’ pile is Susan Kaye Quinn’s Debt Collectors serials. I KNOW I haven’t gotten to reading them yet, I’ve been busy, okay? Found out about this one through her blog during an indie blog hop day.

I also want to read H.M. Ward’s serials, but they’re a bit pricey so I keep being all *debates* *wants* *debates* I predict giving in any day now. These are from the evil Amazon recommendation engine that won't stop making me want even more books I can't afford.

I’m not sure if it counts as indie, but I’ve started reading Kindle Worlds stories. I can already tell I’m going to be tearing through these things like potato chips (which I happen to be eating right now). Poor bank account. I forsee many lunch breaks spent in a favorite fan-fic in my future. I recommend Anita Clenney's Vampire Diaries serials. Intense and crazy, just like the show.

SO tomorrow I will talk about my debilitating love of regencies and all the delicious indieness thereof, and Wednesday will be all about NA. No idea what Thursday will be. An awesome surprise? Maybe a give away? Probably not, because I really am broke. But WE SHALL SEE. 

(Also I'm pretty sure I'm disqualified? Because I've followed none of the rules? OH WELL. (Double also, I really need to stop making statements into questions for no good reason. But adding question marks is really fun?))