Target Audience?

Greetings!

I need your help.

Tell me what attracted you to my series? Who do you think is the target audience of the SNAKEBIT series? What attracted you to my writing? Moreover what exactly have you gotten from the novels I’ve had such so fun researching and writing?

It’s been awhile since I last posted on my blog. So much has happened and there is so much I want to say. I will be posting more often from now on. Suffice it to say that I’ve gotten a marketing itch and I need to scratch it. I need your assistance to do it.

This arises from the release of my sixth novel “LINCOLN’S HIRELINGS,” and my realization that I am making progress … but I’m not getting the word out. For that reason I’ve researched marketing firms to learn what they can offer. In doing so I stumbled on REEDSY, a marketplace for services and tools for authors. Currently I’m taking a free online marketing course with them. They want me to identify my target audience.

Since before my retirement in 2019 (I taught Journalism, English, History, and specifically, The American Civil War), I have engaged in the daunting task of writing a 16 book family saga encompassing the Civil War and the contentious Reconstruction that followed. But then you know that don’t you?

What have I accomplished so far?

Over the past 6-7 years I’ve completed 15 of the projected novels. I’m currently completing the 16th and final novel. I’ve developed an author’s site, begun an enthusiastic but sketchy blog, carried on weekly online chapter readings, sought out local merchants to sell my books, and given multiple public readings/signings as far away as Winchester, VA.

Yet, I have only garnered minimal interest. I have to believe the writing is engaging. Those who read the first novel give it high marks. Note the ratings on Amazon.com. And those fans I’ve spoken to eagerly await the next release. While walking our dogs recently, I actually had a driver ask when my next book release would be.

Which begs the question. What do I do to boost interest?

That’s why I come to you. One of the first things my marketing course instructs, is to firmly identify my expected audience. I thought I did, but I am befuddled. All along I assumed my primary audience would be educated, male, history buffs. Turns out – I’ve attracted more female fans, than males. So I have to rethink this.

Please take a few minutes and answer my questions. You’ll be helping me reach a broader spectrum of the reading public. I would like to Thank you in advance for your vital assist! Yes dear readers. Danke, Arigatō, Grazie and Merci Beaucoup.

You are about to make my day !!!