The Brazen Code audiobook is officially live! 🥳 Anyone in this community knows how much sits behind a sentence like that. The writing. The rewriting. The positioning decisions. The moments of doubt. The technical details. The launch planning. The constant question of whether the book is actually saying what you meant it to say. So I want to give a very real thank-you to the Book Launchers team—especially Julie. I’ve learned from your content, tools, frameworks, and support for years, and so much of it helped me think more clearly about how to bring this book into the world. The Brazen Code is the power playbook women were never given. My hope is that it becomes more than a book and more than an audiobook. I want it to become a force multiplier for women’s economic power. But before it could do any of that, I had to finish it, shape it, position it, and launch it. This community helped me do that better. I’m grateful to be sharing this milestone with people who understand what it takes to get a nonfiction book across the finish line. Thank you, Book Launchers! The Brazen Code audiobook is live now. United we rise. Stay brazen. —Martise

We covered a bunch in today's coaching call! Thanks to everyone who came. I've attached the recording here for anyone who missed it. You can see all my previous recordings in the "Classroom" here in Skool, or pop in next week if you want to catch one live! Notes from the call: Monday Book Launchers coaching call: Skool resources and events, AI discoverability advice for a new book, website reviews, Tertulia plan guidance, Amazon Ads basics, and an Ingram distribution problem. Links mentioned in the call: - Amazon Ads Guide - Website of all Book Launchers Authors & Books - Easy website builder for authors - Free online summit Upcoming Events Julie (Book Launchers CEO) is speaking at the free virtual summit "Publish to Profit" Sarah Bean appeared on a podcast (the Elisha Show) on self-publishing, marketing, and AI discoverability AI Discoverability for The Brazen Code - @Martise Moore asked how to get AI to recommend her book The Brazen Code as a holiday gift for ambitious women - Advice on how to show up in Ai Searches: narrow the audience, add a dedicated gift page, make video clips, use ALK ideal reader analysis. Reverse engineer current AI results; follow-up questions personalize search, so niche content wins Website Reviews - @John Sayne John's Tertulia site review - @Tommy` Boyd Tommy Boyd Tertulia site review should move the book above the free 10-page sample section, especially for mobile

Am I the only one who was a bit takin' aback when Julie the Book Bot started talking to me the other day? Scene: Innocently uploading my new book cover and waiting for feedback from Julie the Book Bot Scene: I hear talking and wonder which one of my 95 open tabs it's coming from Me (realizing...): "Wait, is she talking to me now?!" 😆

Last month Google changed their search feature ... and it's good and bad news for authors. I broke it down in today's YouTube video for you.

Most authors don’t lose readers in Chapter 3. If they even managed to sell someone on buying their book, they often lose them before Chapter 1 even starts. I just recorded a breakdown of something almost no one talks about when it comes to writing a nonfiction book: the front matter of the book! The title page, copyright page, dedication, table of contents, introduction… all the stuff people either copy from other books or throw in because they think they’re supposed to. Think about each page strategically. Those pages are doing more work than anything else in your book. They’re where a reader decides: - “I’m in”or - “This feels like every other book I’ve seen” If someone opened your book and only read the first 10 pages… would they be hooked or gone? Watch the video and then come back here and tell me one thing you’re changing 👇