TARGET
YOUR AUDIENCE
This week’s episode of Reel
Time began as a vague notion that as a writer I should know my potential
reader. ‘Target your audience’ as a
catch phrase, has its roots in economic reasoning. Not one of my strong points.
I was vaguely pondering how I was supposed to know the whims
of millions, possibly even billions of potential readers, when I found myself
over thinking the highly stimulating verb –
At the time, and for no apparent reason (that I am willing
to share), I had been poking around my dress-ups.
Then before I knew what was up and what was floppy, I was
brandishing a phallic symbol whilst strutting bow-legged and sideways through
the scrub, wearing my over-the-knee boots and channelling ‘Annie, Go Get Your
Gun’.
Midway through my little romp I had swapped my utensil for a
compound bow and uploaded visions (ie. transvisioning – there’s that word again– remember it now)
from a completely different setting.
Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games came to mind, as did Tolkien’s dishy
elves.
That’s when it hit me…
Readers set their own targets.
·
Mystery
·
relevant fantasy
·
honest romance
·
dramatic flashes in stark contrast to epic
wonderment
·
glimpses of potential horrors if goodness does
not prevail
Because the eternal story will always have an audience.
Jasmine Neutron Star is the first book of the Star Ways
Chronicles. It is a novel most suitable
for young adult and teenager readers of speculative, fantasy / science fiction,
urban fantasy. It is a humorous account
of Jasmine’s first adventure into the world of light – Quanta. She is a spirem – a new kind of superhero –
and perfect for the sphere of Terra.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9885728.A_J_McMarson
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