My own reading in the fiction area is nearly all detective, horror and science fiction.
In younger years I read widely in other areas.
I use an e-reader and read print books. I like both modes of publishing.

I use a Kindle to read books, but also my cellphone. I have a free library online at frightlibrary.org where a lot of stuff can be read free in html web pages on computers and phones.

Book marketing is difficult as there is no magic bullet. More people read my stuff at my library than anywhere else.

I grew up in a small town. And there are small towns in some of my books. But I do the big city too, and live in the city now. A good story can be done in nearly any setting if you do it right.

I never intended to be a writer, started writing later than most and because I wanted to write some comedy stories. One of my books is a collection of offbeat comedy tales. I read a lot more when I didn't write. Writing takes up a lot of time.

The Spells, Pinnacle City, Cult of the Comet and Indian Falls are my newest books and all novels.
Each book is science fiction and horror related, and each features a private eye of the future.
Cult of the Comet is third person and a richer style. The Spells is in first person style. Indian Falls - an alien invasion novel, has a subtle humorous aspect to it, as does Pinnacle City.
I wanted to do an alien invasion the way I thought it worked best, and not like TV stuff, so I came up with Indian Falls and a horrific alien invasion.
Pinnacle City takes place in a super complex in the sky and I had a ball of fun writing it. The plots I use are always strong and fantastic and I pay attention to story logic.
The Spells is just out and it is a hard-boiled detective novel of the future, with a tough private eye on a mean case involving mutated gangsters, monsters and a mad doctor.
My three horror novels are varied. All are occult involving seers, psychics and new age people. All are strong horror fiction and journeys into the supernatural. DemonSeer opens with an exorcism, Channeling the Demon features the evil of an occult church bringing a demon back to rule earth. Channeling the Vampire takes vampire fiction along a different supernatural route than usual.
My five story, novella, novellette collections are all horror and sci-fi horror fiction. Many of the tales were first published in print pulp magazines.
Walking Dead Man’s Blog and Halloween Tales is my most read collection of horror tales.
Fabulous Furry World is a collection of comedy tales that go from flash fiction to longer stories and from sci-fi to fantasy and horror.
The Rainmaker and other Tales features the horror novella The Rainmaker and seven more horror stories.
Vampire Alley is my collection of vampire tales and Making Monsters is a big collection of my science fiction horror tales.

I was always an indie author and one of the first. I had books online in my own publishing in January 1996 and used to sell story collections on the old floppy disks.

Smashwords gets my books out to other e-readers. I had little success in Amazon sales but sold more via another account to newer e-readers. Also sold some paperbacks.

Writing is very frustrating at the start of a book. I've written straight serial but now plan a story somewhat. Getting the first draft done is difficult but if you get a story rolling the creative effort is rewarding. Polishing a book is always fun because it is not as draining.

I was never one of those people with a tiny list of favorite books and authors. Perhaps I like the best of everyone. But nowadays I read in the horror, sci-fi and mystery areas. Especially books in those areas with a comedic aspect.

Finding ebooks is difficult and all the ebook sites have terrible search methods. I want to see a lot of titles and descriptions and they want to slowly filter out a few to you.

Yes, first story I did was Autumn Afternoon, a tiny comedy tale.