Woo! Peeked at my inbox this morning to see a few emails from Amazon that royalties from various global markets are getting paid out! This is officially my first Amazon KDP Royalty payment for book sales! (They payout 60+ days after the close of a month, so this is for October sales, when Your Business Growth Playbook launched). My goal when publishing my book was for it to become a true Back Catalog book with long tail sales for years to come. The only way you do that is by writing a highly recommendable book that gets into the hands of readers, who love it and then recommend it to others. So far... every month has generated more royalties than the previous month (Dec > Nov > Oct), so the snowball is on track. Which is super exciting! 🤩

Hey, y'all, join me in my nomination of @Julie Broad for the IBPA Jack D. Rittenhouse Award. 👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HJ99NS7 The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) is now accepting nominations for The Rittenhouse Award, an annual honor historically given by PubWest in memory of Jack D. Rittenhouse, the West’s legendary bookman. Nominations will be open from December 1st through January 31st. The award committee will review the candidates in February and select a proposed winner to be shared with and approved by IBPA’s Board of Directors. I submitted my nomination the other day, and today is YOUR chance to submit yours. The is only open to fellow IBPA members, so if you're not already a member of the IBPA... you may want to consider joining. Share how you feel Julie has "made a significant and lifelong contribution to a pioneering and independent spirit of books and book publishing." I can think of a dozen ways, but that's what I put in my nomination. Yours should be in your own words, not mine. If you have any questions about the form, the IBPA, or the nomination, comment here or DM me. It's a short form, will only take you a minute or two to complete, and will help honor Julie's lifetime commitment to us fellow authors. 👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HJ99NS7

So for anyone who's considered doing a Subscriber Surge Giveaway / Bargain Booksy Giveaway through WrittenWordMedia to build their list for their non-fiction book... here's my update two weeks in: So far I've had 80 email opt-ins saying they want to be on my author newsletter list (though they get an extra raffle entry for choosing to be on my newsletter, and the checkbox up top is a "select all" to join ALL the newsletters... See photo.) ~26% confirmed their email address directly with me (A "double opt-in" meaning they really do want to hear from me) The campaign still has another 41 days left, so I'm guessing I'll see a total of ~250 email addresses opt-in and maybe ~60 double opt-in... ? The lead quality feels LOW, especially since they get raffle entries to win a kindle and a bunch of ebooks if they opt-in, but... we'll see... All of the opt-ins, once they double opt-in directly with me, go into a welcome/nurture/indoctrination sequence and then - as requested - onto my newsletter list which has a daily email. Here's the page if you want to see it: https://www.bargainbooksy.com/self-help-ebook-and-kindle-giveaway-december-1st-2025/ I'll share more as we get towards the close as it's too early to say if it was worth participating vs not... Open to any questions / feedback if you got 'em!

Just in from KDP: Starting January 20, 2026, Amazon will make it easier for readers to enjoy content they have purchased from the Kindle store across a wider range of devices and applications by allowing new titles published without Digital Rights Management (DRM) to be downloaded in EPUB and PDF format. If you take no action, the DRM-status of your previously published titles will not change but the EPUB and PDF downloads will not be enabled for existing DRM-free titles. If you want to allow reader downloads for these titles, follow the directions below on or after December 9, and select the option not to apply DRM.

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