Wow. I just spent an hour watching this very informative video. And it just gave me an answer to a problem I have been having about how to be heard. This could be life changing.

Happy Friday friends ... I hear this so often I made a video to address it: "I just need to grow my social media and the book sales will follow." I get it. It sounds logical. But I want to push back on that because I think it's sending a lot of great authors down a very slow, very frustrating road. I was listening to Don't Write THAT Book with Mike Michalowicz recently, and his co-host asked him how he managed to sell thousands of copies at launch. His answer? 18 years of networking. Not a viral TikTok. Not a perfectly optimized Instagram grid. Eighteen years of showing up, building relationships, and earning trust. That is the part few authors who have big launches say out loud. There is no strategy that works instantly. But social media is genuinely one of the slower ones, especially if you're starting from scratch. You're competing with full-time creators, AI-generated content, and algorithms that don't care about your goals. That doesn't mean skip it. There's real value in social media — I use it myself and I believe in it as part of a bigger picture. But it's an amplifier, not a foundation. And if it's your entire plan, you're essentially outsourcing your book's future to an algorithm. I made a video breaking all of this down, including the numbers behind where book revenue is actually growing right now. Dropping it here because I think it'll reframe some things for you.

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Communities don't just happen—they are built by the people who participate in them. Thank you for your contributions this month; you’ve helped us grow into something truly wonderful. A special shout-out to @Rob Cole and our other Top 10 participants for creating value with your comments, posts, and shares! THANK YOU!!! To celebrate each of you and show our appreciation, we are going to send you an email with our hot off the presses LLM discoverability infographic to help you and your book be found in the LLMs (ok, it's so hot off the press, it's still getting final design elements put on it ... 😅). @Angela Jones will email it to you once @Sarah Bean has the final copy from the designer (probably by Monday). THANK YOU AGAIN!!

Having No Guidance when I began writing my book, I dove into Google Docs and ended up with over 800 pages, with hundreds of Pictures throughout the manuscript. (It is now split into 2 books and I am working with the first.) But...as I went along and Learned more, I realized that I had created a Monster, because Now I have Converted it into several other formats in order to FIX The Mistakes! And I have Failed! I tried PDF and that was useless. Made it into a DOCX file and tried to use Autocrit...then a ODT file and Reedsy is just a Mess! Everything "looks" okay on Google Docs, but when it is saved as anything else it is Horrible and I Can't Fix it in Any format! Now what?!