: About Me

Susan Rand has been writing, studying writing, teaching, editing and mentoring emerging writers for 40 years. She is currently writing web content and trying to break into print magazines. As a writing expert at allexperts.com, she has so far answered over 1350+ questions on the subject.

Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips Why the reader/writer contract is important

1 of 1

If you are working on a novel, your goal is probably to sell your book, either to a publisher or online. Of course you, yourself, must be satisfied with your work, and hopefully, you will enjoy the process, but if you want your book to succeed, you must write to satisfy readers: an agent, a publisher, and most important, your market - the people who will buy your book. People buy books for various reasons: to be frightened, intrigued, consumed by the characters and their experiences. They read to learn different things, to live vicariously through characters whose experiences are different...

More..

• Helium Charter Member