Choose Your Genre Well or Not
A sage piece of advice for writers who seek commercial success is to choose and know your market before you start to write. Decide who is going to read your work and know what their expectations are. Then write to the target market. Write to fulfill those expectations. This includes understanding the requirements of different categories or genres. The expectations of romance readers about how a story should be told are different from those of readers of thrillers or fantasies. I didn’t choose the fantasy genre of The [...]