As we wrap up our eBook trends series, the last niche area we'd like to suggest for indie authors is inspirational fiction. Inspirational fiction can take a variety of forms, from stories with uplifting messages to nearly-non-fiction stories pulled from your own life experiences. Think Andy Andrews- or Mitch Albom-style stories that make you smile while you simultaneously reach for a tissue.
Inspirational fiction is a very popular genre, but readers demand more than just a good story from their inspirational literature. Yes, they want to be inspired. They also want to be moved, transformed, and uplifted. For the author, meeting such a challenge can be difficult but rewarding.
How to Write Inspirational Fiction
Like other forms of fiction, your plot and characters must be well developed. In inspirational lit, however, your characters often need to be more revealing. Readers need to know them more intimately, understand their struggles, walk along beside them as they go through whatever challenges they are facing. As a part of that, both your inner dialogue and external conversations must be incredibly strong.
Rules for the Fiction Genre
Regardless of the type of fiction you're choosing to write, whether inspirational fiction or any of the other genres we've discussed, it's important that you commit to quality. The market is too accessible and too inundated with writers for you to not do everything you can to stand apart. From the type of work you choose to write to the cover you choose for your eBook, from hiring a professional editor to proofreading and mechanically editing the eBook to ensure the highest quality, you will not succeed in the industry, even in these trending niches, if you don't put forth your best effort.
Don't miss the rest of our eBook trend series:
Zombie lit
Romantic fiction
Crime fiction
Fantasy fiction
Mystery and detective fiction
Vampire lit
Science fiction
Western fiction
Image credit As we wrap up our eBook trends series, the last niche area we'd like to suggest for indie authors is inspirational fiction. Inspirational fiction can take a variety of forms, from stories with uplifting messages to nearly-non-fiction stories pulled from your own life experiences. Think Andy Andrews- or Mitch Albom-style stories that make you smile while you simultaneously reach for a tissue.
Inspirational fiction is a very popular genre, but readers demand more than just a good story from their inspirational literature. Yes, they want to be inspired. They also want to be moved, transformed, and uplifted. For the author, meeting such a challenge can be difficult but rewarding.
How to Write Inspirational Fiction
Like other forms of fiction, your plot and characters must be well developed. In inspirational lit, however, your characters often need to be more revealing. Readers need to know them more intimately, understand their struggles, walk along beside them as they go through whatever challenges they are facing. As a part of that, both your inner dialogue and external conversations must be incredibly strong.
Rules for the Fiction Genre
Regardless of the type of fiction you're choosing to write, whether inspirational fiction or any of the other genres we've discussed, it's important that you commit to quality. The market is too accessible and too inundated with writers for you to not do everything you can to stand apart. From the type of work you choose to write to the cover you choose for your eBook, from hiring a professional editor to proofreading and mechanically editing the eBook to ensure the highest quality, you will not succeed in the industry, even in these trending niches, if you don't put forth your best effort.
Don't miss the rest of our eBook trend series:
Zombie lit
Romantic fiction
Crime fiction
Fantasy fiction
Mystery and detective fiction
Vampire lit
Science fiction
Western fiction
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