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 (yes, those 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 👇

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 (yes, those 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 👇

Let's be honest... Most self-published authors have at least one book sitting on Amazon that barely gets any sales. Maybe you published it, crossed your fingers, and hoped Amazon would somehow do the marketing for you. Or maybe you got excited about the next book idea and moved on before giving the first book a real chance to succeed. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone. This is one of the most common mistakes I see among self-publishers, especially newer authors. We spend weeks creating a book, hit publish, and then immediately jump to the next project without ever optimizing or promoting the one we already have. The good news? There are still plenty of things you can do to improve your book's visibility and give it a better opportunity to generate sales. That's why I'm considering launching a 4-Week Summer Book Sales Sprint in July. During this sprint, we'll focus on improving and optimizing books that are already published. Each week will cover specific actions you can take to help increase your book's exposure and sales potential. 👉 Week 1: Optimize Improve the pieces that influence visibility and conversions. 👉 Week 2: Review Push Build social proof and gather more reviews. 👉 Week 3: Social Media Videos Create content that helps drive awareness and traffic to your book. 👉 Week 4: Traffic & Ads Learn strategies to get more eyes on your book through both organic and paid traffic. 💰 Investment: $99 The goal is simple: stop letting published books collect dust and start giving them the attention they deserve. If you'd be interested in participating, please vote in the poll below so I can gauge interest before I move forward with planning and scheduling everything. 👇 Would you join the Summer Book Sales Sprint?

🎉 HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE DAD'S OUT THERE I don't know all the dad's in the community so i'm going to highlight a few but if you know some other dad's in the community please tag them in the comments and wish them a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! @Rich Gomez - Wishing a fellow book publisher and friend Rich a Happy Father's Day! He taught his son how to also publish books is is truly a gift! @Jeff Baer - Wishing my friend Jeff a Happy Father's Day! He joined this community with the intention of getting his daughter to publish poetry books, and it's still a goal he is working on! @Bradley Deacon - Wishing my friend Bradley a Happy Father's Day - He has been a great contributor to this community. @Rasheed Hooda - Wishing my friend Rasheed a Happy Father's Day - He truly has amazing stories and always inspires us to let our inner weirdo out. 😉 @Nick Nebelsky - Wishing my friend Nick a Happy Father's Day - He has been a great supporter of the community and is always giving so much value back here on Skool. @Robert Redden - Wishing my friend Robert a Happy Father's Day - he writes books that inspire young minds and has been a great contributor to this community. @Jim Flach - Wishing my friend Jim a Happy Father's Day - he's been working on some story books for kids, and getting closer to finalizing his first book! Clearly - these are just a few community members I know that are Dads. Let me know if you're a dad in the comments so I can wish you a happy fathers day!

One of the biggest mistakes new authors make is focusing only on getting their book published and never taking the time to understand how royalties actually work. When you publish a paperback on Amazon KDP, your royalty isn't just based on the price of your book. Amazon first deducts the printing cost, and then calculates your royalty based on what's left. This means that the way your book is designed can directly impact how much money you earn. A few things that affect your printing costs: ✅ Total page count ✅ Trim size (book dimensions) ✅ Black & white vs. color interior ✅ Premium color vs. standard color ✅ Paper type and ink usage ✅ Formatting choices such as font size, spacing, margins, and image placement Many authors don't realize that adding extra pages can significantly increase printing costs over time. Even small formatting decisions can make a difference. A friend of mine who is also an author decided to completely reformat her book to reduce the page count. The change only increased her royalty by about $0.20 per sale. At first, that doesn't sound like much. But let's do the math: - 100 sales = $20 extra - 500 sales = $100 extra - 1,000 sales = $200 extra - 5,000 sales = $1,000 extra That's the exact same book, with the exact same content, simply formatted more efficiently. The same concept applies to ebooks. While you don't have printing costs to worry about, pricing, file delivery fees (for certain royalty options), and royalty percentages all impact how much you earn per sale. PLAY WITH THE ROYALTY CALCULATOR HERE 🔢 The takeaway? Don't just publish your book. Understand the business behind your book. A successful author doesn't only know how to write a book—they know their numbers. 📊 Have you ever calculated your royalty per sale, or do you usually just wait to see what shows up in your KDP dashboard? I'd love to hear your answer below. 👇