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Okay, this was supposed to be a blog about something else, but I got into a discussion about target audiences with a friend and I wanted to open the discussion up a little.

First, the backstory is that one of the writing projects I'm working on is called "Destructive Criticism" and is a book that I'm writing in what will read as a rather unique, fast-pace narrative.  The other reason for the particular style is that I intend to post much of it right here, long before I ever actually publish it.

More importantly, however, this book--as I've mentioned before--is about two brothers who are about to hit it big with their respective internet shows.

So it'll be a unique story told in a unique way, essentially for the targetted audience of YOU.  And the other people in my YouTube community.

The question arises, however: am I handicapping myself by specifically targetting such a niche market?  Is it better to try and be more "mainstream"?

I look at everything else I've published and scratch my head.  It ranges from scriptbooks to a text-based thriller novel.  Mainstream my ass.  The most mainstream of my books is a short novel about paranormal investigators taking on vampires holed up in a library.

I didn't say it was mainstream, I said it was the MOST mainstream of my books.

Krumbine, it seems, is not much of a mainstream writer.

But maybe that's one of my problems?  I keep talking about needing to sell one more book to receive my first remission's check--would I have sold that book already if my material was more mainstream?

What do you think?

I have no illusions about actually winning this thing, but certainly is comforting to know that I'm two-for-two in screenwriting competitions for semi-finalists (the first semi-finalist placing was the EotU feature last year).

Scroll down and find "Krumbine" on the list ... Caffeine is the script with the honors (Videorama had also been submitted).

As strange as it sounds, Vector Corp. is an internet wholesaler of rubber bands. Managing the odd-ball assortment of characters that make up the third-shift crew is Jamie Glenn, a self-assured, smart-alecky, caffeine maven. Cal Winters is a walking compendium of knowledge for nailing a chick; Ted Christmas is deathly afraid of walking around corners; Anna Nichols is the bombshell hottie with a no-coworker dating policy; and Martin Cambell doesn't quite know what he's getting into when he starts his first night on the job.

With rumors of cutbacks running rampant, the 13th Annual Office Chair Derby, and a disgruntled former employee--in one night, the entire third-shift crew will find out what it means to work at the best job they will ever have.

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