Finding your ideal reader can and probably is as difficult as pinning down your genre. And once we define her we have to find her, court her and convince her to click on the ‘buy link.’
The whole reason we write is to connect with people in a meaningful way, right? So, be yourself, enjoy the people you get to know, and trust the rest will follow.
Angela Ackerman
I plan to carry this topic into at least two chats and to honor February Romance Month we will use romance genres as examples.
Two additional websites to explore are Yasiv and Soovle. You may want to explore your current genre on these sites before or after chat in your spare time. I think you will enjoy the results.
Stalking your Reader
February is Romance Month
Romance is a genre with a huge readership. Within the genre are vast and variable subgenres and subgenres with subgenres of their own.
I want to go deep into finding our audience no matter the genre. If you are writing in hopes of someone reading then you will need to find your reader.
I will be trying out examples for finding audience using the Romance novel to honor February.
Instead of going Full Topic on Superbowl Sunday I'm going to flirt a little, brush up against it and give you just enough information to be ready to stalk your reader and sell her a book.
We will talk about Audiences on Wednesday and wrap up the discussion on Sunday the 10th.
Let’s talk about the thousands of courses and books on the market. If we aren’t careful we may learn ourselves onto a blank page. Are Courses and How-to Books helping us or are they a distraction?
Sunday’s Topic Chat begins at 7PM ET.
Writing Magazine Articles (nonfiction)
We spend a lot of time here in the chat room talking about the art and craft of writing Novels and Short Stories and we spend very little time about crafting nonfiction.
Writing and selling an article to a magazine is a great place for writers to get a toe into the publishing world or earn some street creds. Articles generally pay once and then the rights return to the author. The slant or application or theme of the article can be turned and tuned and re-focused and many times live a second or third
life in other magazines or newsletters.
My awesome article addressing the ongoing needs of a closed land-fill may be revived and edited to fit well into a home-school unit study. Hopefully, I would be paid for each appearance.
