At the beginning of this year, I decided to track all the books I read by self-published (indie) authors and new-to-me authors on Goodreads.
Assuming I’m tracking properly, I’ve read (or attempted to read) books by 38 new-to-me authors so far this year (out of a target of 50).
Some of these are new because they’re debut authors. Some are new because they’re general market romance authors. Some are Christian fiction authors I’ve recently discovered, or only now gotten around to reading. Some are nonfiction authors, so I’ll ignore them for the purposes of this blog post!
I won’t embarrass anyone with the too-long list of new-to-me authors I’m not interested in reading more from. These include self-published authors with indifferent editing, established authors with meh plots or characters, and general market authors with an interesting hook, but which left me feeling the whole story would have been better if the hero and heroine had gotten themselves to a church and experienced a come-to-Jesus moment.
Here are five novels by new-to-me which impressed me (and links to my reviews, where I’ve reviewed them):
West of Famous by Joni M Fisher
The Hope of Azure Springs by Rachel Fordham
Lead Me Home by Amy K Sorrells
The Baggage Handler by David Rawlings
Love and Other Mistakes by Jessica Kate
