Author's Audience

For me, finding the audience of Tucker Max was not difficult whatsoever. First of all, you have to look at his genre. Many people consider Tucker Max to be a part of the fratire genre. This is a 21st century type of genre that is pretty much chick lit., but for guys. This refers to men in their twenties and thirties being the main character in the story. Fratire literature is based on very masculine themes. I didn't want to just say that this is how I found out the audience on my author, so I took a poll at the school. I asked twenty random people the simple question of, are you familiar with Tucker Max. Ten of the people were women and ten were men. Eight out of the ten men knew who he was, all of which liked him, and two out of the ten women knew who he was. The two girls that did know of him said that he was "repulsive". I thought that this was humorous, and I figured that this would be the case. I think that as a reader of Tucker Max, with friends that read his books, I know the type of audience that he is looking for. Tucker Max has a way of writing that pulls the readers in. He degrades women in the process, but I also think he degrades men by talking about the situations that he talks about. There are online hate sites about him that are ran by guys and girls. I think that it's funny how he can upset so many people, yet get so many people to like him. He keeps his audience based on his Twitter feed, his websites and also other people help to invoke interest in him. By all of the people talking about him, this keeps the college aged guys interested in what he is writing that is so concerning to some readers. I think he does a good job and by keeping "haters", he gains more recognition, that his fans enjoys.