Although; choosing a right audience when writing a book, is like making a TV episode for your channel what you are running… or even a movie what you are going to release to theaters and public libraries at the same time. Most creators often use this practice: publish to chosen audience… ask questions later. However; within in our book writing session, we write books with care and extreme caution when we use common sense. However; some people don’t understand the consequences of NOT using proper strategies when publishing books to audience what you are choosing.
If You Were Writing A Book For A General Audience
If you are writing books to target a general audience; you may need to follow these guidelines that will be necessary for keeping your books on proper shelves.
Before we mention these guidelines; we need to ensure you understand how general audiences should consume content without any trouble down the road.
Be Careful When Including Action In Your Story
If you are an anime fan, or you are a fan of Japanese literature; most of their literature has action scenes like fight scenes, gaming scenes, or other scenes with other characters with interactivity are common. You need to use common sense when including such content. Gory content is not recommended. If you watched cartoons that include fight scenes, and superheros are fighting to save the day; you need to research carefully. Adding a disclaimer to your books description is very important when you publish, and sell your books to various marketplaces.
Diversity Is The Key To Integration
Diversity is very important when you target diverse readers who want to read your books. However; if you were including characters with different racial groups; you need to include common sense. However; inclusion is very important. For this instance; you write a book about a Black superhero who was once adopted by a White adoptive mother who once saved him from an alleged child abuse over a “bad” report card. He becomes an advocate for anti-abuse campaigns,–along with being an attorney who has skill to fight for young lives, and hold child abusers accountable.
If your book contains people from other countries; xenophobia shall NOT be glorified, but condemned. For this instance; you wrote a story about a hero who caused a hate group to be arrested and sent to prison after they’re successfully caught. Well, if your book like this… spans up to 12 units via a series… people can read your series titles like usual.
No Tobacco Products
Unfortunately, children cartoons what I grew up with has some characters depicted smoking tobacco,–glorifying smoking. This is a known issue what we experienced for many years. With a rise of tobacco-free movement of any kind; these cartoons are either been remade, or banned altogether.If you were writing a book that encourage people to avoid tobacco products; you need to use common sense when writing a scene of your story.
Be Careful With Alcoholic Beverages
Usually, alcoholic beverages don’t appear in books for the general audience. However; some authors often slide it in (only for adults over 21 years of age), but that will NOT be part of a general audience; you need to move up to “parental guidance” for the best results, or higher. Children must avoid alcohol at all costs because, prevention of underage drinking is very important.
If you are writing a subject/topic that discourages underage drinking; you need to be mindful of your audience, and ensure you take extra care with these topics.
Avoid Adding Harmful Substances
This is one common sense what people don’t understand! Harmful substances is not a good idea, especially if you are writing a book that is educational.
If you are making it clear for anyone to seek resources for substance addiction, or use that lead to serious issues down the road, use common sense.
If you are an author who discourage use of harmful illegal substances; you need to be mindful of your audience.
Be Careful When Designing Your Characters
Always use common sense when designing your characters. For this instance; you designed a character who is a cat; you need to choose a format that is suitable for your audience. However; you can have a character ride an animal character… such as a dog, cat, rabbit, etc. Don’t put any sexualized elements on your characters. Depicting female characters with larger busts is ONLY for Adult readers, not for children. No children shall be sexualized because, its illegal… and you will be end up in prison for production and distribution of illegal pornography,–and after release from prison, you must register as a sex offender from 10 years to life, a lifetime registration can really ruin your writing career, and you may lose your website, your bank account, your publishing account; and even your internet rights.
If you were designing your characters, tone things down. Don’t add unnecessary elements that are NOT suitable for your audience to consume, especially you are using a Japanese method. If you have female characters… don’t sexualize them, if you have male characters… don’t sexualize them either. No person via a general audience wants to see their genitals, otherwise; your book may be banned from these markets.
If you depict children; keep them away from sexual activities, and other dirty stuff.
Do you remember Sara Bellum from “The PowerPuff Girls” franchise? She’s been designed such a way to incorrectly target an audience who are watching this TV series. Although; this is one example of how NOT to sexualize your characters when targeting a general audience, Dexter’s Mom is no exception.
No Profanity
Never insert profanity into your books what you are writing under any way. Nobody wants to be exposed to these unwanted languages that are NOT kosher! If you are including your books to a certain territory, such as Jamaica, you need to do your homework/research.
Schools, and other educational institutions must keep books containing profanity out of their libraries by 100%.
You should always use common sense as you write a book; stay away from stress inducing environments, never play music with profanity embedded, and avoid sexual content.
No Sexual Content
Sexual content shall NOT be included in your book what you are writing. That doesn’t just include sexual themes, any character may resemble genitals, or other dirty stuff, sexually-explicit language, erotic attire, characters with sexually-suggestive formats, etc.
Slipping adult jokes are NO excuse when writing a book for a general audience.
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” is notorious of targeting towards an audience who don’t want to see these slide-ins of these unwanted sexual content. If this movie has been marketed towards adult audiences; that’s should’ve been their first adult movie ever.
Why sexual content shall NOT be included because of the following:
- No children shall be exposed to this unwanted content. No creator behind this content is above the law,–even if you are a corporation of any kind. That don’t make your content interesting at all!
- Sexual content must be placed behind paywalls,–just like paid content via your subscription to TV services what you pay for. However; banks has been asking consumers to confirm transactions to help prevent fraudulent chargebacks. We need to ensure sexual content creators (including erotic authors) should at least price their books to the minimum amount over $6.00; or at least be placed on subscription platforms like Everand, or Kobo+. Our government must ensure mandatory paywalls are designed to keep minors from viewing such content, and implement a requirement to enter security codes before viewing such content.
Choose Public Libraries
Pick out ALL library distribution platforms, and keep prices of your books as low as possible. If you choose these platforms as your mode of publishing; you need to ensure your readers are informed about your work available to read. This is useful for targeting poor communities, and rely on audience who may consume your books what you wrote.
With a public library; you can get a diverse amount of readers who want to read your books,–without needing to pay for it. Public libraries will do all of the heavy lifting for them. However; with a power of a library card… you can borrow books. If you were an ebook consumer, you digitally check out a book. For physical book consumers… you check out a physical book, and return it after a period of time.
If You Were Writing For An Adult Audience
You need to choose distributors wisely. For this instance; you can have your books be available for reading on a subscription platform, such as Everand, or Kobo+. This is a necessary effort to ensure these books for adult readers can be accessed with restrictions set by a platform administrator. Unfortunately, small children often fall into these traps, set by school districts, and other educational institutions who don’t rely on common sense. Corruption, and other factors has caused children to be exposed by these unwanted titles contain sex and other gross stuff.
If you are an author who write adult books for mature audiences only; ensure you are doing the following:
Add A Disclaimer At The Back Of Your Book By Putting In Inside A Description Box
This is necessary! You can use this strategy to ensure you are targeting the right audience. However; adding something that will prevent schools from providing such material is key to ensure school districts make a purchasing decision.
This is why its necessary to do so:
- Enables a customer to easily identify these books that are erotic by design. For this instance; if a customer is looking for a book about fairy stories without erotica, a customer can check if any of these book are non-erotic by checking disclaimers. However; some authors perform some kind of a trickery to trick customers who are trying to find a non-erotic book. Well, this kind of a trickery may be present, and I don’t glorify this practice.
- If you are a parent, and you raise children as Rastafarian children; you can easily single out these books that are erotic, and find non-erotic books.
Skip Public Libraries
Say “NO” to free erotica! You can further lock away adult books that will be only read by adults who have valid accounts. This is necessary to ensure your work is correctly targeted. With a rise of book banning… authors must rely on common sense as a way to ensure they’re NOT targeted incorrectly. Keeping sexual content out of schools is important. However; some authors often put adult books on public library shelves,–all without asking questions.
Why NOT distribute erotic books to public libraries?
- Erotica shall NOT be free to consume with a power of your library card – If you have children at home, and you have a library included, they may end up picking up this material,–causing problems. By NOT putting erotica on library shelves; you are ensuring safety is taken care of. Not just improving safety for minors, you are helping to keep erotica out of reach of children.
- Sex Offender Risks – If sex offenders came to a public library; they must abstain from sexual materials,–according to jurisdiction, and mandatory requirements for most sex offender registries. This is necessary to help reduce a number of sex offenders in public libraries.
- Potentially-unwanted erotic dress-up themes what children are NOT suppose to consume – We don’t want children to do this because, that can cause issues down the road. Children often find books to read in public libraries, but these books what they are consuming may contain content that is NOT suitable for children.
- There is no such law that prevent publishers from distributing erotica to public libraries. And there’s no such law that require erotic works to be priced as high as possible,–or require a subscription via a separate machine to read such content.
Raise Prices
I suggest $6.00 should be a minimum pricing standard because, erotic titles must be priced high because, that will help the poor steer clear of these erotic titles. However; price gouging laws prevent high prices. However; there’s no exemption for erotic titles. Alternatively, you can ONLY include your books via subscription platforms.
If you have lots of erotic books what you’ve written, and you are hardening measures to prevent minors from viewing erotic books; follow these steps:
- Log into your self-publishing account.
- Go to a book in question, and update the price. For example; if your erotic book is written with quality, price it with a higher price of $13.69. If you have multiple erotic titles, price them with a same price.
- Delist your erotic titles from public libraries (all public libraries).
- Add them to subscription reading platforms.
- Republish your works, and confirm your necessary rights.
- Wait for your books to be redistributed.
- Confirm if a public library has removed ALL erotic titles from their collections.
- Confirm if you are ONLY receiving adult readers who read your erotic titles. If you successfully receive adult readers, you are done with this step.
If you were writing a book; you need to ask yourself these following questions:
Asking yourself these questions, or in some cases; getting help from your audience is key to ensure your book what you are writing is targeting towards a correct audience what you are targeting. You can set up a forum, respond email from your readers who have questions about your work, etc. Always speak, and don’t be shy like a moose. You can ask these following questions:
- Are my characters what I’ve described suitable for a general audience, and any of them are kosher?
- Are my characters what I’ve depicted safe for my young audience, and why does it matter?
- What should my characters wear to ensure I am targeting the right audience?
- Is my book short or long enough for a long reading time via quality?
- Can my book only have text?
- Can my book be available in public libraries?
- Can I write a book that is a series; and exclude sexual themes?
- Can I only write light novels?
- Can I also write a compilation book with stories to read,–without needing to write standalone books?
These questions that aren’t listed are common for some authors. However; Some authors don’t understand… targeting a correct audience can take some effort, and strategy. However; some authors who live in a poor community rely on pen names to replace their names on books what they wrote, and be successful later on. Most authors use a strategy when self-publishing books. If you were choosing an audience; do your own research.