Ideal Readers

This month's FM Merry-Go-Round blog is about my ideal reader. That's an interesting topic. Especially since, as authors, it's up to us to target our audience.  My professional writing career started 1998 with the sale of my first non-fiction book, then refreshed in 2005 with the sale of my first novel. My view of the ideal reader has changed a lot since then.

It used to be that I fantasized my ideal reader was someone who read the likes of David Eddings (whose books I greatly admire). With...