Remember, your work has to be good enough to make
readers want more of the same.
Readers want more of authors these days.
As you know, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Steve Berry are phenomenal bestsellers who write the kind of action - adventure book Mr. Morrison writes, and we just don't think
readers want more of them.
There's a lot to be learned in terms of what
readers want more of, and what they want to see less of, or what put them off entirely.
So if
readers want more of the Pruxnae, I'm happy to give it to them, but the cost will be putting off working on something else, like the holiday novellas / short novels I've been dying to write for over a year now.
So if
readers want more of my books, they need to buy those I've already written in greater numbers, and then I'll be able to go on holiday more often, and get more writing done!
But I think Hugh's system of gauging from short reads what
readers want more of... and giving that to them... that's pretty smart.
Not exact matches
«Hitting these times gives us a great opportunity to report
more in - depth, to get things right, to provide analysis on the breaking news that happens throughout the day, but also to serve
readers at the times they
want it,» Times head
of digital Alan Hunter told the Nieman Journalism Lab.
The
more effort you put into the outline, the less the
reader is going to notice or be conscious
of the organization
of the book, which is what you
want.
«We could have come out with just a basic card
reader a long time ago but we
wanted to do something a lot
more compelling,» said Darrell MacMullin, managing director
of PayPal Canada.
But to the rest
of us who write quality content and
want to guest post it on quality sites, with the hopes that
more readers will read our posts and share it, to us, Google is not being fair!
Because some groups have thousands
of members or
more — and are therefore filled with potential
readers and customers — they are ripe targets for spammers, as well as for well - meaning content creators who just
want to spread their messages as far and wide as they can, without due concern for where it gets placed.
If everyone who visits rabble and likes it chipped in a couple
of dollars per month, our future would be much
more secure and we could do much
more: like the things our
readers tell us they
want to see
more of:
more staff reporters and
more work to complete the upgrade
of our website.
A story with millions
of your own adventure in it — looking for
readers, writers, ghost writers, authors, editors, reporters, journalists, bloggers, influencers, entrepreneurs, sponsors like you who
want to help by giving $ 1 or
more and spreading this campaign and the story to the world.
The titles and descriptions
of your blog must seize your
reader's attention, effectively introducing the content
of your pages and ensuring that the users
want to learn
more and click on your links.
Even
more tempting is to give
readers or viewers what they
want to see: a sanitized version
of what is actually a horrific reality.
Such is one
of many phrases in the book that might — just might — deliver a shock
of self - knowledge to curious
readers, who might then
want to know
more.
So I mainly follow links on twitter now (and facebook to a lesser extent), following people who are good sources
of the things I'm interested in, and trusting that the good quality articles will float to the top... When I
want more things to read I turn to Google
Reader, but normally end up just picking up on the few blogs I'm really interested in.
The author does assume a prior knowledge
of Therese, and some instances
of her life are mentioned with little explanation, but this is not off - putting; rather it makes the
reader want to learn
more.
More than that, if a
reader wants to know about the stories
of Genesis, again he should turn to Walter Schenck and read his book First voices, which also received outstanding praises.
As I've spoken with my
readers, several
of them have expressed interest in the sources you used while researching A New Kind
of Christianity — some because they are skeptical about your scholarship, others because they liked what you said and
want to learn
more.
But the Protestant messages might also have been
more open to various interpretations, enabling
readers to hear in them what they
wanted to hear, prefiguring what Jacques Ellul in this century called the «propaganda»
of the media.
Readers wanting a
more detailed refutation
of these charges or a
more in - depth description
of the Nicaraguan revolution can look elsewhere.6 Here I will limit myself to a brief description
of key philosophical and practical components
of the Nicaraguan revolution in order to explain why Nicaragua is in fact dangerous to elite U.S. interests.
As one
reader posted on the on «line bookstore, Amazon.com, «Ms. Walker is truly one
of the most daring writers
of the twentieth century... [but] I found the details
of the lesbian lovemaking to be
more than I ever
wanted to know about lesbian relationships» and the assumption that my dead relatives spy on me in my bed quite revolting.
Last month, I asked
readers what topics you
wanted to read
more about on the blog, and one
of the top responses was mental health and the Church.
They
want to avoid duplicating the results
of traditional biblical scholarship without depriving their
readers of its insights, and they seek to exploit some
of the
more important methods
of contemporary criticism without turning The Literary Guide into a forum for debating sectarian theorists.
We do lots
of easy, inexpensive recipes with veggie curries, dahls etc but some
readers also
want more indulgent desserts like this but you can absolutely skip recipes like this x
It's time again I do another
Reader's Feedback Survey to get some feedback on what you like, don't like, and
want to see
more / less
of on the blog.
however, we didn't make any changes in the older posts.We
want to make our posts
more readable yet simple (no mess - ups
of pictures) so that our
readers and our email subscribers can get the nice reading experience in the browser and in the inbox.
After reading through your responses to my first
reader survey I was happy to see that many
of you
wanted more wholesome meat recipes.
I've posted this recipe before, but I
wanted to share it again because 1) I have a lot
more readers now (so this is new to most
of you) and 2) these sandwich buns are so good.
I do know that vegans don't eat meat
of course I
wanted to create an alfredo sauce that was dairy - free, but I went the vegan route so that it would appeal to
more of my
readers.
There were
more than 1,600 comments, prompting a follow - up story in the Times — «We choose each other over and over because we
want to:
Readers share their open - marriage stories» — in which numerous people speak
of their experiences
of engaging in ethical non-monogamy.
Every now and then I get a comment from a TLT
reader that I
want to highlight in a separate blog post so that
more of you will see it.
I just
wanted to say when you step out the door early in the wee hours
of the morning, I may not always see you off but I totally appreciate when you do the little things for me, my favorites are making me chai and emptying the dishwasher (my
readers can read
more on this titbit in my Friday 5 post on 5 Household Chores I Absolutely Hate).
There were
more than 1,600 comments, prompting a follow - up story in the Times — «We choose each other over and over because we
want to:
Readers share their open - marriage stories» — in which numerous people speak
of their experiences
of engaging in ethical nonmonogamy.
It came out too late for me to include any reference to it in my book, unfortunately, but I would recommend it as a good resource for any
of your
readers who
want to delve
more deeply into the research around these skills and how they can play out in the classroom.
I'll be sharing
more of my story in an article that will appear later this month on The Attached Family online but I also
want to share a bit
of it here with you, the
readers of API Speaks.
Dear friends, We Rookie Moms try not to blog about blogging because we believe that our
readers are
more likely to be fellow mamas, not fellow bloggers, but since there are definitely a handful
of savvy bloggers reading our site, I
want to address an issue some
of us may be facing this week.
So, when
readers come across a footnote and
want to discover
more, they will be able to display instantaneously an abstract
of the article the footnote refers to.
To those «in the trade», such as undertakers, pathologists and vicars, there is vast amount
of useful information, but I suspect that many
more squeamish
readers wouldn't
want to know some
of the ans - wers, such as «Will the worms crawl in?»
Their
readers just
want a sound bite, along the lines
of «can we stop worrying about it» or «should we worry about it
more than we did?».
If you
want your
readers and your own kids to really benefit, you might
want to research
more of the finer details.
Following the success
of their first collaboration with Eat Fat, Be Thin, the
readers and fans
wanted more and this time they asked for savoury and paleo inspired recipes!
I know this is dorky but there may be a few
of your
readers that
want more detailed scientific info:
Now, I EASILY get 3 - 4 emails and / or messages a week (probably
more) from friends and
readers who ask me something along the lines
of, «I
want to start a blog!
I've been
wanting to share
more recaps
of what you guys (my
readers and followers) fave items were for the past month!
Especially with a top that's looser to begin with, I didn't
wan na layer
more on top
of it; instead, I paired with this gorgeous statement necklace that a CUR
reader actually sent me (how sweet is she?!
Since so many
of you in my fall
reader survey said you
want to read
more personal stuff about me / my life, I figured I'd take a hot sec to share some recent tidbits with y ’ all while sharing a bunch
of winnables and giftables.
if a blogger really
wants to forward their site, they have to know what kind
of posts are liked
more by
readers / followers!