Several months ago I read a book that featured a vampire character as a love interest.\u00c2\u00a0 He was impossibly fast, had great strength, protected the love of his life\u00c2\u00a0(a non-vampire)\u00c2\u00a0and didn’t drink human blood.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The format of the book was a prologue which was something in the middle of the book and then the story.\u00c2\u00a0 This was published in 2009.<\/p>\n
Sounds a lot like a series featuring sparkly vampires that’s been on best seller lists, doesn’t it?\u00c2\u00a0 Twilight <\/em>was released in 2005.\u00c2\u00a0 The only true difference I could find in the vampire characters religion.\u00c2\u00a0 The recent book’s vampire\u00c2\u00a0was committed to being a practicing Christian.\u00c2\u00a0 Edward Cullen, on the other hand,\u00c2\u00a0wrestled with his religious beliefs.\u00c2\u00a0 Since\u00c2\u00a0becoming a vampire he believed he no longer had a soul.<\/p>\n It was really difficult to review the recently published book.\u00c2\u00a0 It made me think of one of the things I keep\u00c2\u00a0 hearing: “know your market”.<\/p>\n That means if you write Young Adult Paranormal books you should know what’s already on the market.\u00c2\u00a0 (And who is going to be most likely to buy your book.)\u00c2\u00a0 Which books are similar to yours?\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t have to read all of the recently published books in the same genre to do your research.\u00c2\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n There are some publishers with imprints for certain genres.\u00c2\u00a0 Although time consuming, it shouldn’t be difficult to go to their sites and read the information about their recent and upcoming releases and take a few notes.<\/p>\n What other ideas do you have for researching your market?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several months ago I read a book that featured a vampire character as a love interest.\u00c2\u00a0 He was impossibly fast, had great strength, protected the love of his life\u00c2\u00a0(a non-vampire)\u00c2\u00a0and didn’t drink human blood.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The format of the book was a prologue which was something in the middle of the book and then the story.\u00c2\u00a0 This… Continue reading Knowing Your Market<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[804],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}