No one warned me how easy it is to spend money on arts and crafts 🤣 But seriously though how cute these these little bookish inspired pieces of art turn out!?! This was my first time trying, and I have pretty poor artistic skills but I am overall happy with the results maybe I should work on improving this craft because it's so cute. I made this with Shrink Paper and acrylic markers. Not sure what I will be doing with them just yet but wanted to share incase anyone else was feeling inspired!

Share whatever you’re working on or proud of right now. This community is full of creators, authors, and entrepreneurs, and sometimes the best thing we can do is help each other get a little more visibility. 💡 IDEAS ON WHAT YOU COULD SHARE: • Yourself and what you do • Your Skool community • A book you're writing or recently published • A project you're building • A shoutout to another member • A video, post, or resource • Affiliate links are allowed. The goal is simple: help our members get seen. Just one request so this stays valuable for everyone. 👉 1 RULE: If you share something, please also leave a thoughtful or helpful comment on someone else’s post. Support goes both ways, and when we all participate, the whole community benefits. Now let’s see what everyone is building 👇

For a long time, Audible was bringing in the most money in my publishing business. My KDP books were profitable, but I was paying for ads to keep them visible and compete with other titles. Those ads also helped people discover my books and choose the audiobook version. Audible benefited without me running separate audiobook ads. Recently, my audiobook sales have dropped by about half. 🎧 That slowdown has happened alongside changes from Amazon and Audible, including audiobook advertising. I can’t say ads are the only reason for the decline, but they’ve changed the competitive landscape. Other authors now have another way to get their audiobooks in front of potential buyers. I haven’t started running audiobook ads yet, so that’s something I’m evaluating as I decide what to do next. ⚖️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. An author using audiobook ads might be growing their sales, while someone who relied on organic discovery might be seeing a slowdown. Our catalogs, expenses, audiences, and strategies are different. Success isn’t one size fits all. I’m sharing this because I want you to see both sides of building a publishing business. Having success doesn’t mean every income stream keeps growing or that a strategy works forever. 📊 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. Watch your sales, understand your expenses, and evaluate whether a new strategy actually improves your profit. You don’t have to jump on every update—but you do need to pay attention when the numbers change. 💬 Have you noticed any changes in your book or audiobook sales lately?

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Thanks for staying on top of these recent updates, @Krista Brea . Honestly one of my favorite things in the little time i've being in here is exactly this, your activeness and updates in your community. Generally the engagement in the community always feels real. On Kindle+ itself, my quick take: the audiobook inclusion is big, but what I’m watching closest is the new reporting split between pages read and pages listened. For the first time we’ll actually see which format readers prefer, not just what sells upfront. That data alone could shape how a lot of us plan our next titles. On royalties I’d wait a few months before judging, these pools always behave differently in practice than on paper. Side note while I’m here. I’ve noticed a lot of the authors in this community lean into the children’s book niche (and doing great work with it). Curious to meet folks in other genres, nonfiction, fiction, memoir, self-help, whatever your lane is. If you’re outside the children’s space and still planning to get one or more titles out before the year ends, drop a comment and say what you’re working on. Would love to connect.