Sentences with phrase «readers of your genre expect»

So before you write cross-genre, you need to be aware of what readers of each genre expect.

Not exact matches

My guess is, certain genres (like erotica) won't mind paying 99cents or even 2.99 for a short read, but other types of genres won't do so well (business books expect more meat, scifi / fantasy readers expect more story — they might buy a short from a famous writer, but maybe not a writer they don't recognize).

The only concern with your situation was if your genre didn't have any history of connected - standalones (which I don't think is true) and / or if your book description blurb was misleading to readers and the story wasn't what they expected for a series (easily fixed).

So while we would probably want most of our beta readers to read our genre, mixing in one or two who don't might provide us a much broader view than we ever expected.

genres you're crossing, so you're aware of what the readers expect from each.

Let me say that again; a style of writing and story telling within a genre that readers come to know, love and...» expect».

If vampires and werewolves sell, spin a story that's on the fringe of what readers have come to expect (unless that's not your genre at all.

Not only will you gain a better understanding of what fans of that genre expect, you might even meet some potential readers for your book (resist the urge to constantly promote your book, though; it becomes annoying for other members).

This might give you a good idea of how much readers in that genre expect to pay for a new Indie author's book.

Genres, book descriptions and categories should at least inform the potential reader of what they may expect from a book.

Focus on a strong story - telling structure and outline, make sure to add all the features that readers expect of the genre, twist it enough to make it your own.

And now that KU is blind to the length of your story, you're free to craft it however you like... and given that readers seem to love short stories and serials (at least in romance, but increasingly in other genres), I don't expect those forms to go away.

To help readers who may not be familiar with my favorite genres, I've put together a list of some of the all - time best writers and paired them with a snack that will give you some insight into what you can expect from their novels.

Romance, like other genre novels — paranormals of various kinds, thrillers, mysteries, and some YA sell extremely well because their readers expect not just one novel but an entire series (we meet Dan Brown's protagonist, Robert Langdon, in book after book), which they also expect to buy.

That involves exceeding the expectations of the (few) readers I have, who expect something in my chosen genre.

Stross noted that «DRM is poison to voracious genre readers... who expect to reread the best of them» and want to preserve access to their sizable digital libraries.

It's naive to think readers will just find you (there were millions of titles published last year alone)-- yes, genre authors and non-fiction authors (who have a platform) do better, but there's just too much out there to expect readers to scroll through Amazon or Barnes & Noble and stumble upon your works.

Genre is, in effect, a categorization system that allows a potential reader to immediately gain a broad idea of what to expect of a particular novel.

Being published by Amazon, readers can expect to see a wide variety of various themes and genres to grow.