Writing Again

I am so excited to get back to writing fiction. It's like the best role playing game in the world.  I spent years sending my manuscripts to publishers and getting them back with rejection letter. Sometimes, I never got my work back even though I always submitted them with the required self-addressed stamped envelope.  Some of the letters were really nice letters saying they liked my writing but that my book "wasn't right" for their line.
One small press publisher finally offered to publish The Aledan, but that fell through. A few years back, I built a website and tried to sell the novel as an eBook, but it went nowhere. I think I sold one copy. It was just in the last few weeks, that I started researching publishing the novel myself. That's when I discovered that I could publish to Kindle Direct at no cost. WhooHoo!!
The first few days, I sold 5 copies. I thought, 'not bad'. It was more than I ever sold before. These five people simply stumbled on it because it was new. My first move to publicize it was sharing it on Facebook. One of the tips in Kindle was run a free give away. In 5 days, 96 people downloaded my book.
Meanwhile I built a simple website for the series www.thealedanonline.com . Probably the same 100 people who downloaded the book have visited my site.
Yesterday was the last day of the free promotion. I will probably run it again when I publish the sequel sometime in the fall. I'm working on the next book of the series, now. The working title is Journey of the Searching Star. That could change.
Chris Myers