Was on another channel that posted a basic prompt to use with Muse for a 30 day launch. I'm giving away secrets here but try the following in Muse (or really an agent should Work) I just posted this on another site after they had tried to put up a use for muse for a 30 day launch. Send this to your muse agent and see what happens ( Inamed Mine Edgar from the movie "Electric Dreams"): Here’s a rewritten, expanded prompt you can give your agent Copy everything below into muse: Act as a senior book marketing strategist, social media director, launch manager, and copy chief. I’m launching my book, [Book Title], a [genre/category] book for [target audience]. First, read the full manuscript I provide. Then build a complete 30-day launch campaign and a 45-day content calendar. Primary objective: Create a full, successful 30-day book launch campaign, with platform-specific social media posts and newsletter drafts, supported by comparable-title research, keyword research, hook mining, social listening, traction verification, and a final review-and-fix pass. 1. Read and analyze the manuscript - Read the entire manuscript before planning. - Identify genre, subgenre, target readers, positioning, promise, transformation, pain points, themes, tropes, controversies, quotable lines, stories, data, frameworks, checklists, myths, mistakes, emotional beats, and practical takeaways. - Find the strongest hooks for this genre: contrarian takes, surprising facts, emotional stories, reader questions, “before/after” outcomes, mistakes, secrets, frameworks, and high-shareability moments. - Extract 20–50 potential hooks and organize them by platform, audience, and launch phase. 2. Research comps, keywords, and social traction - Identify 5–10 comparable titles (“comps”) published in the last 3–5 years in the same genre/category. - For each comp, research: - Title, author, publisher, pub date, price, formats, rating, review count, Amazon BSR/category rank. - Amazon categories, BISAC subjects, SEO keywords, hashtags, TikTok/Instagram search terms, Google Trends, YouTube/Pinterest keywords. - Social media handles and platforms. - What they are posting: top-performing posts, hooks, captions, formats, posting cadence, hashtags, CTAs, offers. - Whether they are actually getting traction: engagement rate, likes, comments, shares, saves, views, watch time, profile visits, link clicks, growth, sentiment, and quality of comments.

( @Michael Culp: If this isn't appropriate for this group, I'll take it down.) For many of us, we have a KDP Account where we work with our books. Every so often, Amazon will ask you to verify your identity. This usually takes only a minute or two, and is quite painless. (They don't even draw any blood!) The consequences of NOT doing this, however, can be dire. Failure to verify will cause Amazon to cancel your account. Without recourse for recovery, as I understand it. For me, that would be quite painful. I have 22 items up on the Amazon Marketplace. Finding another place to list and sell these would be nigh onto impossible. (I can move them, yes; I have ISBNs for all my items. But still.) What's involved? First, check the information shown on their page. Name, address, etc. Then they want you to capture a photo of a government ID. There's a very nice "Continue on Another Device" option to take the photo; I used my smart phone, as my desk camera's bad at photos. You scan a QR code, take the photo, then take a photo of your (smiling!) face. The phone sends everything and you are returned to the computer page. After about 30 seconds, a "Verified" response comes onto the page, and you're done. I made sure my bank account and other info were all correct. Check your email for a new email from Amazon (usually in your Updates, if you use that tab). It will say "Your identity was successfully verified." Done! Easy Peasy. So if you get a request for verification from KDP, do this! Only: Check the URL first. It must come from https://account.kdp.amazon.com/identity. Otherwise, it's dodgy... Enjoy!

Time for accountability and what everyone has been working on this week. Let us know where you are, if you have blockers we can help with, had a rough go with personal life, made a win, started something new, or anything else. This doesn't have to do with books could be anything...

Am I Still a Writer If the Machine Could Do the Whole Thing Without Me? There's a specific moment I keep having, and I don't think I've said it out loud here yet. I'm reading a chapter the Writers Room drafted. It's good. Voice holds, pacing works, the scene does what it's supposed to do. And for about half a second before I start editing it, there's a flicker — not guilt exactly, more like vertigo — where I think: did I write this? How much is really mine? I picked the genre. I built the Story Bible. I argued with FELIX about the subplot. I'll rewrite at least three paragraphs by hand before I'm done. But the sentences on the screen right now didn't come out of my fingers, and I don't have a clean answer for what that makes me. I've mostly been able to set that flicker aside, because I'm still in the loop. I'm still the one deciding. But this week I want to follow that discomfort all the way to its actual destination, because I think I've been building toward something I haven't said out loud either, and it's time to say it. Here's the thought that wouldn't leave me alone. I already have Market Scout, which researches comp authors and tells you what's selling right now and where the gaps are. I already have a Kindle Metadata skill that writes the blurb, the keywords, the BISAC categories — the whole SEO package, tuned to the algorithm, because that's just what publishing on Amazon requires now. I already have BookCrafter, which takes a premise and a genre and writes the whole manuscript, chapter by chapter, running a quality gate that kicks a chapter back for a rewrite if it doesn't score high enough, looping until it clears the bar. I already have Editorial Room doing a five-pass diagnostic and consistency audit. I already have ImageCrafter generating covers pulled straight from what's actually selling in that genre's bestseller shelf right now. I already have MarketCrafter scheduling and posting the social campaign. I already have pen names with measured voice profiles so the prose sounds consistent book after book.

I wrote an article a while ago now with the basic WordCRafter.pro walkthrough: https://www.skool.com/ai-pro-writers-studio/workflow-wednesday-0f2ffe84?p=40867b3e Since We have so many new folks recently and several have either approached me directly about Writers block and Coming up with ideas I thought I'd drop another bonus article today. ***** Writer's Block Isn't One Thing — Here's the Half of It WordCrafter Can Actually Fix Using the Brainstorm Room and PlotCrafter for the blank-page kind of stuck, and being honest about the kind neither one touches. --- "Writer's block" gets used as one word for a pile of different problems, and that's most of why advice for it fails so often. A 2022 survey of working writers grouped the real causes into four families: physical (stress, fatigue, plain burnout), motivational (fear of being judged, a drive that's quietly gone), cognitive (the rules you've turned into laws without noticing, the gap between what you can picture and what you can put on the page), and behavioral (avoidance dressed up as "I'm just not feeling it today"). Other writers on the block itself have split the cognitive piece further, into at least three recognizably different feelings: stuck on a sentence and rewriting it eleven times (perfectionism), staring at a page that's blank because anything you put on it will be worse than the version in your head (blank-page anxiety), and knowing something has to happen next and genuinely not knowing what (the plot-problem block). That last split matters here, because it draws the line around what this piece can honestly promise. Two rooms in WordCrafter — the Brainstorm Room and PlotCrafter — are built for a specific slice of this pile: the cognitive load of having to generate a direction out of nothing. Neither one touches the sentence you've rewritten eleven times, and neither one is a cure for burnout. What they do share, and what actually makes them useful against a real flavor of block, is a mechanism worth naming plainly: both hand you something concrete to react to instead of asking a tired brain to invent from a blank slate. Reacting is a cheaper cognitive act than generating — recognizing "no, not that, but warmer" takes a fraction of the effort that producing the warm version from nothing does. That's the actual argument for both tools, and it's worth being precise about, rather than pretending one skill panel fixes every kind of stuck.