Aug 23 2011
Survey
Could you do me a favor and fill out a reader survey? It has eight questions, all of which could fairly be described as hilarious and exciting*. Your responses could help me get published. Thanks!
*If you’re sufficiently inebriated.
WRITING ASPIRATIONS
–12% want to write both a novel and a comic.
–63% want to write just a novel.
–5% want to write just a comic book.
–19% don’t want to write either.
WRITING EXPERIENCE
–Overall, about 5% of respondents reported that they had been professionally published.
–Looking just at readers older than 25 (because it’s so rare to get published sooner), about 9% of respondents have been professionally published.
AGE
–42% are between 13-18
–27% are between 19-22
–22% are between 23-40
–9% are 41+
–Median age: 19
–Average age: 22
COMIC PUBLISHER PREFERENCE
–39% of readers prefer DC Comics.
–32% of readers prefer Marvel.
–9% of readers prefer another company.
–20% of readers are not comic book fans.
GENDER
–57% men
–43% women (not that you needed me to tell you that, you masters of mathematics)
Interestign results.
” 9% are 41+” this contradicts what some people say about the website, that is mostly full of older guys.
“…this contradicts what some people say about the website, that is mostly full of older guys.” You’re not the first person to mention that people have reached that conclusion. I wonder what sort of writing advice they’d actually want? (hai im bmac welcum 2 my writing sight)
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Also, I didn’t have this up before, but the gender split is 43%-57% female-male. That strikes me as a pretty even split for a superhero-themed website.
” You’re not the first person to mention that people have reached that conclusion. I wonder what sort of writing advice they’d actually want? (hai im bmac welcum 2 my writing sight)”
Maybe thats actually what they want.
” Also, I didn’t have this up before, but the gender split is 43%-57% female-male. That strikes me as a pretty even split for a superhero-themed website.”
That is quite surprising, i would never have guessed.
Huh. Usually writing sites have mostly women; and usually superhero sites have mostly guys, so I’m not surprised it came out 43-57 here, but it’s pretty even for sure which is rare these days. I like that.
“Usually writing sites have mostly women…” I have noticed that. Besides comic books and graphic novels, fiction-writing tilts pretty heavily towards the ladies. (I think non-fiction authors tend to be men*).
*I have no idea whether bestselling authors are demographically similar to authors as a whole, but there are 38 different authors credited for the top 35 nonfiction works on the NYT Bestsellers List right now. Of those, 8 are women and 30 (79%) are men.
What about ages under 13?
Because i’m 11…..
Hmm, at the time I was reporting my results, I didn’t have any respondents younger than 13. In my next set of results, I’ll change it from 13-18 to 11-18.
WOW This is such an amazing website, I have only just found it via Google and this site will help me so much. Thank you.