My recommendation is to check to see
what other books in your genre use.)
Jana, the first step I take with any book is to do a competitive analysis — see
what other books in your genre / category are doing in terms of size, length, cost, etc..
Not exact matches
Researchers at the New School for Social Research
in New York have determined that reading literary fiction —
books that have literary merit and don't fit into a
genre — enhances
what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of
others.
What You Need To Know:
In a year where there's plenty of
other movies involving battles with aliens for the fate of the earth («Oblivion,» «After Earth «-RRB-, there's one that's going back to a lauded classic novel of the
genre, with the first adaptation of Orson Scott Card «s beloved
book «Ender's Game.»
Like our list of comic
book - based superhero movies and
other genre movies, we're not including production info such as cast, crew or plot; this is just an easy - to - read look at
what's to come
in North American theaters.
For a guy who has edited Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and
others, he comes as across as a seriously uninformed dick who delights
in «mansplaining» everything that is wrong with a wildly successful
genre (that earns enough money to pretty much keep the rest of the industry flourishing and off life support because there are only so many painfully precious lit fic
books one can read before wanting to go to a poetry reading and sarcastically catcall the people at the mic) that is dominated by women who for the most part seem to know
what they are doing and drive 90 % of the innovation
in book marketing and sub-genres.
I do n`t just read
books that are dystopian, or mystery, or whatever
other kind of
genre, because I think these are somewhat arbitrary tags placed on a
book in order to figure out
what bookshelf it belongs to.
When designing your
book cover, have a look at
other designs
in your
genre —
what palettes do they use?
What are the
other books in your
genre / topic?
Take the time to know
what has worked for
other books in your
genre.
My Penname, on the
other hand, rocks the Amazon algos — not only does she sell more because she's writing
in a popular
genre, but her fans know just
what to expect from the next
book... and eagerly await its arrival.
What are
other similar
books in the
genre or category charging?
What I mean is, start getting friendly with
other authors on your level and
in your
genre and discuss ways you can swap
book marketing promotions for each
other's
books.
I polled
other authors
in an indie Facebook group about
what genre they thought the
book was, based on this cover, and overwhelmingly they said «time travel».
I'm kind of a data person so I've got spreadsheets with my
book, my bestseller ranking, the number of sales, and I've tracked many
other books in my
genre the same way, to get an idea of
what's going on and how much the bestseller ranks fluctuate.
An average email, depending on each reviewer's conditions, will have your
books title and
genre, the format your
book is available
in, when the
book will be available
in other formats or print,
what format they usually like, summary of your
book, and anything more that they require.
But if you never open a
book on your craft, or read
other books in your
genre, how can you hope to know
what's good writing and
what isn't?
This can depend on your
genre or
book topic, so be sure to observe
what other books are selling for
in your
genre or category.
Check
what others in your
book's
genre are doing.
What makes your
book stand out from every
other book in your
genre?
But, it's far easier to market a
book that's been written to fill a need, and know who your audience is, and
what they want — and to do that you need to do market research (read
what's bestselling
in your
genre) and make your
book a lot like, and hopefully better than, those
others.
What you are writing about can vary from your book specifically, your genre, what other authors in your genre are doing, e
What you are writing about can vary from your
book specifically, your
genre,
what other authors in your genre are doing, e
what other authors
in your
genre are doing, etc..
On the one hand, most writing experts and classes and
books about creative writing will tell you not to consider the market, and not to mimic or copy
other bestselling
books in your
genre to see
what's popular.
What will persuade a reader to choose your
book over all the
others in the same
genre?
What makes the game such a joy to play isn't its plot however, but the way it completely rewrites the RPG rule
book, flat out refusing to conform to the typical gameplay tropes and standards set by countless
other games
in the
genre.