JingleHelen11 OP t1_j9m5olh wrote on February 22, 2023 at 11:33 PM

Reply to comment by RachelOfRefuge in What do you generally expect of published books? by JingleHelen11

> writing that doesn't appear to have been done by a fourth grader

Yeah that's kind of what I mean. Like, the books that I'm referencing weren't quite so bad that they felt like first drafts, but they were quite far from final drafts if that makes sense.

Griffen_07 t1_j9mc1m7 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 12:20 AM

I hate to say this but a lot of crap gets published. Look into mysteries, thrillers, and the pulp end of SFF. There is a lot of WTF in a lot of bestselling work.