Have you ever sat in a craft talk and felt it lacked something? The content was good, but fifteen minutes into the presentation, you find yourself scrolling through email on your phone. You’re bored, but you don’t know why. Perhaps you’re having trouble focusing, or maybe it’s as simple as the speaker failed to connect…
Tag: audience
In the Beginning…
“How did you reach people in the beginning?” People ask me that more than any other question. Here’s the answer. Market Analysis 1. I made a determination that I wanted to write and to see if I could find an audience. 2. I looked at my interests and skill set. I decided that I was…
A Few Notes On Discoverability
Discoverability is one of those newish buzzwords that tries to describe the process by which a reader finds a book to read. It’s a subject I’ve thought a lot about and one that keeps coming back to haunt authors. It’s Not The Book The problem with the generally accepted view of discoverability is that the…
Mambo No. 5
It’s not so much a rule as a repeated observation. While the plural of anecdote isn’t data, there comes a point where something happens often enough that one has to believe there’s something other than divine intervention at work. The observation is that many authors don’t begin to get traction until they’ve published five novels….
Finding My Audience
When my latest book come out last month, I booked a romance blog tour. My promoter did a great job and got my book featured on about 40 blogs. About halfway into the tour, as I was thanking hosts and seeing no other comments—none—I realized I was wasting my money. The blogs were all focused…