Book - With the book, because it's a short multiple stories book I am writing plus it being a horror I want to find out the popularity on short stories book and the genre Horror, why Novels are more popular than short stories book and the attraction to short stories book.
Questions
1 What's the popularity of short story book (Authors the original writer, not a variety of different stories from different writers)?
2. How popular is Horror?
3. Why are Novels more popular than short stories book?
4. What is the attraction a short stories book has to get people to buy it?
5. What would you say the audience is for a short stories horror book?
These are the question I want to ask a publisher. The plan is to look for publishers who have published horror and short stories and maybe even both together. At this point, I want to ask at least three publishers (Might ask two more)
Publishers I want to email
1. Bloomsbury - They've published both horror and short stories books as well as short stories, genre horror.
2. BelleBooks/Bell Bridge - They've published both Horror and short stories
3. Penguin - Horror and Short stories and also a horror short stories book
Both Bloomsbury and Penguin, I have heard of before, but BelleBooks/ is not one I am familiar with, so I might get different responses/opinion.
Another primary research is I will be doing is joining a horror fan group, and ask question main for the people who do enjoy reading.
Another primary research is I will be doing is joining a horror fan group, and ask question main for the people who do enjoy reading.
Horror short stories book
1. When would you feel like reading?
2. What attracts you to reading a horror short stories or What might draw you to reading a horror short stories? (If they've not read short stories)
3. What puts you off reading a short stories book?
More questions based on Horror stories
What is the most commonly used location?
Favorite horror, Location, Villain, and scenario (In case there is a story that does relate to mine)
I also want to get (at the moment) both groups to read my stories to help get their option on the stories what they like, what they might have preferred and even get the age range of the reader. This way it helps me to know were the age rate I placed for my audience just about right or more far over.
For this part I have joined a group called Self-Publishing & Book marketing, it's here where I will be posting my book cover's to get their response being people who want to be a self-publish author or who are.
I will also try and attempt to find a self-publish author who's written short stories book (can't be sure if it'll be horror based) and ask about what they did after they published, how often does a book get purchase, tips, any advertisement, who your original targets are.
Kind of a change of plan
At this point, I have looked up the three publishers, and so far it looks like I will have some trouble. Bloomsbury I have messager on Facebook asking if they could answer my question and if so can I do it on message or by email (the reason I asked on message because the email is for different uses and I thought that it would be better to ask and get a response that way.)
Me: Hi, I am doing a college project and was hoping if you could answer some questions for me? If so can I message you the questions or email them to you? If you could let me know as soon as possible that would be great.
Bloomsbury Publishing UK: Thanks for Messaging us. We try to be as responsive as possible. If your message relates to an order from our website, please email contact@bloomsbury.com
So hopefully I will get a response and will be sending my questions to them soon. As for the other two BellaBooks/Bell Bridge, there is no social media but only email but it looks to be more for business then question and for penguin even though they have social media there's no messager. But they do have an email address for different topic mainly for books and the authors/wannabe authors.
So for another research project, I will be asking the same questions (maybe written them out differently) But I want to ask the well know bookshop Waterstone. Why? Because it is slightly similar to publisher except they help sell the book meaning they should have an idea on most sold genre books, why novels get bought more than short stories and what benefits a book get attracted to the buyer.
At the moment it will just be Waterstone, but I will look up other and also asks.
Secondary Research
For secondary research, I want to focus on articles based on self-publishing and the popularity, advertisement and what chances of being a successor. Looking for a blog or again article where the writer is a self-publish author.
Also looking up authors who started out as self-publish then got picked up by big publishing companies.
I will try. Look for a book, short stories, genre horror and must be the author own original work (That is hard to find since most are collections from other authors) Look at advertisement, Where it's sold (reviews and price) It might end up coming down to using a book with multiple authors, but it still relates to my project because it's still a short story book that I need to learn about, from the cover, story-themed, price and reviews.
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