Reviewing Site Finds

Discovered two interesting review sites this week that restore dignity to the deserving among the ranks of unpublished or POD published writers, while exercising standards and discrimination. If the future of publishing is for weeding to take place via post-publication selection, rather than via pre-publishing screening, then people like POD-girl and Torgo of Honest Critiques may be the avant-garde of a new phenomenon. (If I was a betting animal, my money would go on "some of each" for the future of publishing. That is, traditional publishing will remain a major player but there will be increasing scope for alternative routes to respectability.)

• POD-dy Mouth POD-girl is a published author who started reading POD books in quest of the ultimate bad novel...and was surprised to discover some good ones. Her blog is devoted to giving those unexpected jewels more exposure.


• Honest Critiques Discovered by my friend Virginia O'Dine, who is a member of the NorSpec Writers Group in which I take part, this site reviews whatever authors wish to send in, for good or ill.