Chris Fox - Write to Market
Chris Fox is a bestselling author of military sci-fi as well as the eBook marketing guide, Six Figure Author: Using Data to Sell Books: Write Faster, Write Smarter.
His methodology will help you focus on writing your novels to satisfy a specific genre (or sub-genre).
He also explains how to find, and position yourself in, what he calls "hot and hungry" niches to maximize your earning potential.
I should note that nobody here believes that writing to market should never supersede your desire to write in a genre that you enjoy. If you don't like reading it, you won't be able to write it.
Well... I guess I would have to admit that I'm not the biggest fan of western novels, but I do want to write one...
That being said, I'm sure mine would FEEL more like sci-fi or fantasy (even humor perhaps) but no matter the setting, because of my "cultural bias" (and unless I did some serious research) it wouldn't satisfy fans of Louis L'Amour.
Ok, back to the post.
Chirs Fox has been a huge motivator for myself and provided a concrete framework to model my author career after.
Seeing his progress up through creating his 21 day writing challenge on Youtube was inspirational.
I highly recommend you check it out!