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>>Wes, your willingness to keep them online free is >>precisely why I have been buying everything you make >>available on Amazon. >> >>I enjoyed the free versions, and because I have a >>Kindle and can afford to pay the Amazon download price >>I feel that putting some money in your pocket is the >>least I can do to thank you. >> >>There is a *lot* of low priced content out there to >>download, but it was your willingness to take a chance >>and put up a free version that got me started reading. > >Most current readers have now forgotten the early >days, or never knew about them. At the time I started >Spearfish Lake Tales, it was just going to be a free >site, a hobby. I've written a lot over the years, and >I thought it would be nice to share some of my work, >and maybe get a little feedback. I put up a donation >box only as an afterthought, with the idea of getting >some help with server expenses and other such odd >stuff. > >Then I got started posting Dawnwalker, which, of >course, is huge and took something like five months to >post. Part way through I started getting e-mails >asking, "What would you charge to send me the whole >thing?" I don't remember now but I think I said >something like twenty or twenty-five bucks. I don't >think I expected more than half a dozen responses, if >that. Over the period of a couple months, I got ten >times that! > >That's still pretty much how I operate today, and >intend to operate for a while. I'm not getting rich >off Spearfish Lake Tales and don't really intend to; >it's mostly intended to sweeten my retirement a >little, when I can finally retire, which probably >won't be for a few years yet. Right now, it means my >wife can drive to work in a decent car, rather than an >old clunker that was getting dangerous. That's >considerably more than I intended when I started >posting my stories. > >I still like writing, and am, let's face it, >compulsive about it. Every now and then a story comes >on me that demands to be told. I've started and >finished one new book since the first of the year, and >am deep in a second. I haven't done the math, but it >probably means that there will be new stories posted >at least up into 2016, and with any kind of luck at >all I should be a ways ahead by the time we get there. > >It's really fun and exciting to see the ghost of an >idea turn into a story. Often what happens surprises >me, and that's part of what makes it fun! > >I really appreciate all the support I've gotten from >everyone. If I hadn't had that support I probably >wouldn't have worked at developing new stories >anywhere near as hard as I have. > >The next new story will be starting in a month. It >takes off in a little different direction than things >I have done in the past, but it's been one of my >favorites. I try to do something a little different in >every story, but this one will be a little more >different than most. > >You mentioned my stories going on Amazon. That only >started in December. Since my volunteer editors and I >want to go through them and try to clean up the little >fluffs and mistakes as much as we can, it's a >relatively slow process. Canyon Fires should be going >up in the next few days, and probably eight more in >the next six months or so. > >By the way, you can order mobi files for the Kindle of >all stories, not just the ones on Amazon, directly >from Spearfish Lake Tales. See the store page on the >website for details. > >Again, thanks for your support! > >-- Wes

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