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So, today I was going through the various tools, Amazon provides for us authors, and discovered they have a section which shows us what our readers, read, supposedly so we know who our competition is, I guess? I don't know. It's difficult for me to think of other authors as competition. I have Autism and it doesn't matter how many people have tried to explain the concept of competition to me, I just can not wrap my mind around the concept at all. It seems to be such a horrible and disgustingly vile thing, that I can not understand why anyone would want to do it. So, telling me that these authors are my competitors is a horrify concept. | |
If you are somebody who tries to compete with others, all I can say, is that I pity you and hope you are getting some type of psychological help for it so that you don't have to live your life as such a terribly, small minded and hurtful to others person. I'm sure Amazon must be using some alternative meaning of competitor that I'm unaware of as I couldn't imaging amazon seeking to support such a terrible hobby as building bombs to kill an author because you are an author who thinks the other author is your competition. I suppose, for people who don't have Autism and are able to understand such things, then authors, killing other authors to keep one author from publishing a book before the other one does, might make sense, but, me I simply can not wrap my minds around why someone would do something like that. The concept of competition is just baffling to me. | |
In any case Amazon gave me a list of other books that my readers have bought, allowing me to see the reading habits of the readers of my own books. It appears that the bulk of my readers, are readers of flash fiction. Look at how many flash fiction works they have bought, in addition to my books. This stands to reason, considering that, for most of my 39 years as a published author, has been spent writing 2,000+ short stories. So of course the bulk of my readers are readers of short fiction and are buying lots of short fiction buy lots of other story story authors as well. On some levels, this also tells me that I should be putting more of my shorts up on Amazon, as it seems to be what me readers are looking for. Interestingly, there are a lot of how to write books in the mix, which tells me that a lot of my readers are writers, authors, or at least looking to get started writing on some level. |
I haven't counted how many there are, but it looks like how to write books, actually makes up the bulk of the "also boughts" on this list.
I don't find this surprising though, given that most of the people who visit my site and or follow me online are in fact people looking for advice on how to get started writing, thus why you see me answering so many of their (your?) questions here on my website.
But as I noted before, short fiction seems to be the reigning topic. While there are many general how to write books there, the bulk of them are how to write short stories and flash fiction.
This is valuable information for me, because it tells me that my readers are looking not only to write stories, but to write specifically short flash fiction stories. Which tells me that going forward I should be writing more articles on the subject of writing short stories.
I found it interesting, the wide range of books that it gave me, and thought perhaps you guys would be interested in seeing the list, so, here it is.
Enjoy!
I'm an author. This is an author home page. It's about me, my life, my books, my hobbies, my home town, and anything else that applies to me and my life.
Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).
NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.
ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.
In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters. I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.
Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.
I DO NOT write Erotica.
I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.
The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.
There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.
And I'm sick of real estate agents who are too incompetent to research land ownership before they show up to stick a for sale sign in my yard.
The fact of the matter is, my son was murdered in 2013, and the friends and family of the murderer think it is funny to keep ILLEGALLY listing my land for sale, because apparently their child murdering bitch friend didn't hurt me enough by crippling me with a golf club, ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and beating his brains out on the ground with a golf club.
Also, her friends and family like to gaslight me by doxing me on ufo and alien abduction forums, while pretending to be me, and trying to make it look like I believe in ufos or aliens, even though I think people who believe in ufos are raving lunatics and people who claim to be alien abductees are crazy.
So, yeah, my son was murdered and the murder's friends and family endlessly harass me, my friends, and my family both online and offline, and I'm not happy with it at all.
There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter.
The FBI is looking for information into:
I'm going to repeat it because I'm tired of people showing up and making offers:
146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.
How did you build your audience?
Not online, that's for sure.
aka How to sell ten million books
aka How I sold ten million books.
The Park Bench Method of Writing
(just the article)
or
The Park Bench Method of Writing
(with the list of 10k writing prompts - takes a LONG TIME to load - SEVERAL MINUTES!)
I Think UFO and Alien Believers Are Weird Here's Why...
Does every writer have to deal with this shit?
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