If you have friends and family that are
regular readers of your genre then quiz them about their buying habits.
«I'd recommend starting with your beta readers or early reviewers who are
regular readers of your genre,» says Weber.
Not exact matches
Dear Author and Smart Bitches both run
regular features on their sites highlighting books that have gone on sale for $ 2.99, $ 1.99, or $.99, because the romance
genre in particular is full
of readers that burn through so many titles that they are eager to snap up books for as cheaply as they can get them.
As
regular readers of my blog may know, I love reviewing books and do so in a professional capacity for a couple
of magazines in two completely different
genres — a British parenting magazine called Today's Child and an international literary journal called Vine Leaves.
If you're asking a review from a celebrity author in your
genre, you either need a relationship, a mutual friend to connect you, or a whole bunch
of social proof first (a hundred reviews from
regular readers for example).
An eBook that allows an author to change section, to move up plot points depending on
reader input, to change the entire setting based on a
reader's location — that is a wholly different
genre than that
of regular books, and is obviously where we're heading (some
of the more adventurous
of us).
Writers know what it is,
regular readers outside
of a couple
genres do not.)
Like I said, I don't think my series has enough
of the popular tropes to really kill it (and I already gave away over 1500 copies
of Book 1 to my
regular readers), but I'm crossing my fingers that it will at least do well enough that I won't regret having «
genre hopped» instead
of buckling down and writing more fantasy.
If you're a
regular reader of our blog and familiar with our motivation data and how we generate these
genre maps, feel free to skip the next 2 sections.