The Importance of Finding Your Audience

One of the common pieces of marketing advice you will see is to identify your target audience. What sort of person will enjoy your book? Where might you find them? How old are they? Male or Female? It can seem really daunting for a first time author, who (if...

Y is for Young

I wrote recently about discovering that my novel could easily fit into the New Adult category, and since thenĀ I’ve realised that I write about younger characters quite a bit. Aside from Reckless Rescue, I have another novel with a nineteen year old protagonist...

N is for New Adult

In the last few years, books in the Young Adult category have been taking the world by storm. Harry Potter, Hunger games and Twilight, to name a few. And the funny thing is, it isn’t young adults who are reading them with such fervour. Adults are fast...