The Booktique Blog

Who, exactly, is the audience for your book? There’s a lot of psycho-babble out there about how go about identifying your audience(s). What’s trendy right now is creating an avatar for your Ideal Reader complete with his/her/their own profile. 

I get it, you need to know something about your Ideal Reader(s) so you can make sure your book will appeal to whoever they are wherever they are. That, in...

Raise your hand: Are you, like me, an inveterate e-book consumer from your local library (shoutout to my own local, Austin Public Library!)? If so, here’s a peek behind the curtain about how libraries stock up on e-books by Daniel A. Gross at The New Yorker. You just might be surprised.

The process libraries have to go through to get e-books is completely different than buying print books. They d...