Indie Authors: Researching Your Books

When writing books, there are a lot of things you can research. What genre should you write in (if you don’t already have a preference)? How can you attract readers? Who are your target or ideal readers? What should your book title be?

Below is a list of resources that can help answer those questions:

• Find My Audience: Learn about your Twitter audience.
• Hasghtagify: Hashtags and top influencers.
• BuzzSumo: Research content trends.
• BookMarketing: How to find your readers.
• The Book Designer: Finding the ideal reader.
• Jane Friedman: More on ideal readers.
• BookBub: Identifying your target audience.
• Your Writer Platform: More on your target audience.
• Shatzkin Files: Audience Sheet.
• BookBub: Marketing to a niche.
• Kissmetrics: Reducing audience churn.
• Digital Book World: Relevant social media marketing.
• BookBub: Reader engagement by genre.
• BuildBookBuzz: How readers find books.
• Jane Friedman: Reader myths.
• Moz: Branded keywords.
• BookBub: Book title trends.
• ePub Scene: Research sites for writers.

This post was originally published on March 17, 2016.