/lit/ - Literature

For cringe self-published works, I recommend John Bowers' Starport series. It's a Tom Clancy-esque political techno-thriller set in the laziest space opera setting I've ever read. It's essentially our present day, except countries are planets and airplanes are starships. People watch holo-screens. Everything hovers. Cars need a natural resource called hydroleum.
There's the planets Askelon (Space America), Environ and Tropicon (Space Banana Republics--they speak Spanish) and Eroak (Space Commies, sorta Russia, China and Norks). One of the good guys is Colonel Oliver West, disgraced by a scandal from decades ago. The villain is the evil trillionaire octogenarian Jorge Sorres. In a later book, a mysterious junior senator becomes President of Askelon, but is his birth certificate even real?
That shit aside, Bowers can write surprisingly well for a self-published author. The prose is clear and flows well enough. Characters have arcs. Protagonists are likable. Villians have nuance. Even minor characters have little touches that make them real.
I wouldn't call Bowers a great writer, but he's better than, say, John Ringo (which admittedly is a low bar to hurdle).