You need to be aware of the fact that over a million eBooks have been self-published over the last year with over 900,000 selling less than one a week. This being said, if you write for the pleasure of creating something new and entertaining without the need to become the next Stephen King, you will have a much better experience with less headaches.

One thing that I discovered following the ratings of new authors was that the genre made a huge difference in the number of free downloads. I wrote under the humor genre and could expect roughly three to four hundred free downloads per promo. Those authors who wrote under romance or mystery garnered thousands of free downloads.

Armed with this information, if you have the ability to write equally as well under a variety of genres, I would suggest you start out with romance or mystery in order to gather a larger fan base earlier on. I am strictly a humor author and as a result will need much more patience to succeed since there are so few readers out there searching for books in this genre. Good luck