I’ve read about 40 short stories over the last 3 weeks. On the one hand, I’m glad to see a thread about them in here — that is awesome! On the other, a lot of my favourite stories have been from lesser known authors and it feels bad thinking of how hard it would be for one of them to get a lot of upvotes like a famous person would
For those who don’t know, indie publishing is extremely arduous, yet a lot of the work is excellent. Some time, go out and pick a short story collection by a group of authors you have never heard of and check it out! You might be surprised by what you find (provided the editor was good).
Note: there are often 10-100 submissions for every one that gets accepted too, so you are already having the less interesting ones filtered out for you, if you ever worry about that
For those who don’t know, indie publishing is extremely arduous, yet a lot of the work is excellent. Some time, go out and pick a short story collection by a group of authors you have never heard of and check it out! You might be surprised by what you find (provided the editor was good).
Note: there are often 10-100 submissions for every one that gets accepted too, so you are already having the less interesting ones filtered out for you, if you ever worry about that