Thank you so much to @Thomas Juuls and @Ljubitza Kouris - it was a great meeting. @Suzanne Smith was with us at start, unfortunately, she left the meeting soon. It's sad that due to technical imperfections caused by moving the meeting to Friday, we were deprived of the opportunity to see @Yannick Di Mondo at the meeting. We discussed Guided Publishing System in deep. Premium tier members can watch the recording 🎦 in the Classroom. The main topics we discussed was: Core Philosophy & System Design - User-Centric Flexibility: Unlike many AI publishing tools that hide their processes, the GPS is designed to give users control over the specific Large Language Model (LLM) they use, such as Gemini Pro, ChatGPT, or Claude Opus. - The "Recipe" Framework: The system operates on a "recipe" model, where data files (market data, Book DNA, Reader Avatars) serve as ingredients and prompts as instructions. High-quality results depend on the precision of both. - Human-Led Creativity: Following the Pareto (80/20) principle, the system delegates "boring" heavy lifting to the AI while keeping the user in charge of creative taste and strategic decision-making. Quality vs. "AI Slop" - The Problem with Generic AI: "One-button" AI solutions often produce "AI slop" – low-quality content that consumers can easily distinguish from professional work. - Data Integrity: "Garbage In, Garbage Out." Generic data leads to generic results; it's important to upload their own specific research (e.g., from tools like KDP Scout) to get actionable insights. Key Tools & Functionality - Avatar Distiller: This tool generates highly detailed Reader Avatars based on a Book’s DNA. This allows publishers to "test" covers and marketing copy against an AI model that simulates their target audience’s specific demographics and habits. - Niche Finder: We discussed how using specific, user-collected niche data (rather than generic best-seller lists) dramatically improves the AI's ability to find profitable publishing opportunities. - KDP Ads Scenario Calculator: A tool designed to help publishers simulate different advertising outcomes to decide whether to continue or stop specific Amazon ad campaigns.

You know that feeling when you hire a cover designer, and what comes back looks... nothing like what you imagined? Or when you brief an editor on your book's tone, and they completely miss the mark? It's not their fault. And it's not yours either. The problem is communication. Getting what's in your head into someone else's hands is where most author-freelancer relationships fall apart. That's why I created something I call "Book DNA" – a master document that captures the soul of your project in a way that actually translates to the people you work with. Here's how it works: Step 1: The Setup Download the Book DNA Interview.md ⤵️ file from the Publisher Persona & Book DNA page and upload it to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Type "Execute" and let it guide you through questions about your book. Step 2: The Secret Sauce Here's the trick – don't type your answers. Use the microphone instead. Why? Because typing filters your thoughts. Speaking captures the nuance, the emotion, the real vision behind your book that gets lost when you're staring at a blinking cursor. Step 3: The Brain Dump Just talk. Let the AI dig deeper into what makes your book unique – the vibe, the reader experience, the details that matter. Step 4: The Result Run it through "Fast Mode" to get a clean, summarized TXT file. That's your Book DNA – the blueprint every freelancer needs to nail your vision on the first try. Before I show you all the ways to use this (and trust me, there are more than you'd think), I'm curious: What would YOU use a Book DNA file for? Drop your ideas below. I want to hear how you'd put this to work in your publishing process.

The Premium members' group is growing rapidly, and it seems necessary to arrange a weekly event to keep everyone up to speed. Fridays at 15:00 UTC seem the best option to include Europe, the U.S., and Asia. It will be: 7:00 (PST) in Los Angeles 8:00 (MST) in Denver 10:00 (EST) in New York 16:00 (CET) in Berlin 23:00 in Singapore 🗓 The first call will be held the day after tomorrow. Please add it to your calendars. If you want to and can participate, it will be a pleasure to chat. Anyway, the first parts of the calls will be recorded and clipped to YouTube as educational materials for the Guided Publishing System. After the formal part of the calls, including presentations of Guided Publishing System functions, the recording will be turned off, and we can discuss any interesting questions off-record. The calls for the Premium tier will be held every week till the end of March 2026.

Let's take a first taste of the Guided Publishing System. Please read how the system works: https://www.skool.com/guild/classroom/b3937406. It will take about 3 minutes of your time (on every page, you will see the approximate reading time). On weekends, you completed the Publisher Persona interview and saved the results in a file. This is one of the most important files you will provide to the system to produce results that suit you best. Niche Finder will apply your Publisher Persona to the actual data for hundreds of self-published books, published in the last 18 months, with a BSR below 30,000 and fewer than 25 reviews. After you get the first results, you can continue researching, referencing the Sales History provided in the prompt. As soon as you find an interesting niche, you can validate it with the KIP Scout extension: https://www.skool.com/guild/classroom/a909acca?md=3a8050165a21498aa786392aa7704616 Please share your first impressions in the comments. The Guided Publishing System is not set in stone; it's a flexible, constantly updated tool, so your feedback can help fellow publishers.

You saw the chart. Eight months, 22x royalty growth, 15x profit. Not magic – process. Now I'm setting the next target: $5,000/month by the end of 2026. And I'm doing it publicly, with full transparency on what works and what doesn't. Here's what changed in my thinking going into this year. Low-content got me to $50/month on autopilot. Switching to a quality-first mindset got me past $3,000. But scaling further requires something I spent the last few months building: a repeatable system that doesn't depend on my mood, my schedule, or lucky niche picks. I'm calling it the Guided Publishing System. It's not a course. It's not a prompt pack. It's a structured workflow — built around the idea that AI can do the heavy lifting in execution, while the decisions, creative direction, and judgment calls stay with us. That's what produces defensible, platform-compliant books that actually sell. And that's what separates publishers who plateau from publishers who compound. I'm not ready to open it up fully yet. But I'm looking for a group of serious publishers – people already making something on KDP, already past the "does this even work?" phase – who want to run this alongside me in 2026. What that looks like in practice: Real numbers shared. Real process documented. No cheerleading – just what's working, what broke, and how I'm adjusting. If you're plateaued somewhere between $50 and $1,000/month and you're done waiting to figure out what the next level actually requires, this is worth paying attention to. If $5,000/month is a thing of the past for you, it's amazing! Let's target 5x growth, for example. More details on the Premium tier upgrades will be available soon. Watch this space. --- The chart shows my trajectory from Jan-25 through Dec-25. Your numbers will be different. I hope you will crash it.