Here’s another example—when I rate a book such as the Bible which has been published in countless editions and is available in so many forms, my rating is more so for the quality of the edition itself than the content of the book.

Similar to EL James (50 shades) started out writing fanfic, moved up to self publishing, then one of their books exploded and they got picked up by a major publisher.

The big difference is that Hoover has put out about 25 books in the 7ish years that she’s been popular, including multiple best seller series, while James has never published a non-50 shades book.

Hoover is also about 20 years younger than James and seems to have quite a road ahead of her.

then exploded. The key difference is that Hoover has