Pipedreamergrey

Interesting AMA, thanks. I write short stories. (Sci-fi, not erotica) I've been considering selling anthologies through Amazon for a while now, but I've hesitated because I've never believed that the final product would be long enough to justify placing online. Looking through your work though, I see that most of it is shorter than 30 pages. So, I have a few questions:

1. What is word count are you'r aiming for when you sit down to write? What's the shortest piece you consider saleable, in other words?

2. Do you deliberately keep your work short? Is that part of a marketing strategy, or is that just the natural length of your stories?

3. To what do you credit your success? Do you think that your success is due to your genre? Or would you still be making the same money writing in another genre?

4. How did you start the ball rolling when you first published? Did you actively market your books, or did you just post your first book and cross your fingers?

Sorry for all the questions, but I've never caught an AMA with a short form writer having any success on Amazon before. Thanks!

Is PostSecret still a hobby/sideline for you, or do you make a living from the books and website now?