gone but not forgotten

I don’t often think about my readers.

That might sound harsh, but it’s a neutral truth. There are writers out there – I’ve met some; read the musings on craft of others – who are wholly readership focused. When they write, they hold in their heads a clear vision of their target reader, their market demographic if you will, and they craft with that demographic in mind. Often they’ll interact extensively with their readers on-line, maintain a constant flow of meta-data about their books, thei...