We have a new March Leaderboard WINNER 🙌 Give a big shoutout to @Lara Knutzen for crushing the leaderboard this month. What's the PRIZE? ‼️ Lara is already a premium member so I will be getting her access to my upcoming list of profitable book keywords so stay tuned. 💖📣 Big shoutout to the other high achievers on the leaderboard this month. @Gemma Coles @Jeff Baer @Sybil Hall @Rich Gomez I appreciate you all for showing up in this community and sharing things you learn along the way. By the way I am behind getting my April calendar updated but I will be hosting the Author Q&A call tonight for my premium members. Check that out on the calendar.

There’s something incredibly rewarding about finally publishing a book. All the late nights. All the edits. All the rewrites. All the moments you questioned if it was even good enough. Then you hit publish. Your book goes live. Your name is on Amazon. Your ideas are finally out in the world. It’s an amazing feeling every single time. But here’s what I’ve realised… Publishing the book is not the end, it's the beginning of the end and the start of something new. Now comes the real journey. Getting reviews Building awareness Learning what worksImproving the next book Growing your audience No matter how many books you publish, that launch moment never gets old. What’s been the most rewarding part of publishing for you? 📚

I just want to give a huge shoutout to my friends who have really been helping me grow this community. Earlier today I asked in a few groups for a *Birthday Wish* for people to send over a few community members. Now we are just 5 members away from hitting the 800-member goal for Q1, and I am feeling like we are 100% going to hit the target. @Liisa Reimann Thanks for sending over @Chelena Peart who has been a real rockstar ✨ from the moment she came into the community today and brought over a bunch of her friends. 💖 Also big hugs to @Rasheed Hooda for also giving me a birthday shoutout and bringing over some of his connections too. Also appreciate @Sybil Hall for also featuring me today. 👉 AFFILIATE IS ON: Everyone is welcome to invite their friends. If you have someone who would love to learn self-publishing, send them over. 💖 Thanks to everyone else who has been supportive here. I'm grateful to have you all!

Let’s build a story together 👀 I’ll start with one sentence…and each person adds the NEXT sentence in the comments. Build on to the story by creating the next sentence. If you see someone typing, wait for their sentence and then type yours out, building on theirs Let’s see where this goes 😂 Here's the first sentence: 👉 The moment she touched the glowing book, she was transported to a magical place. Your turn 👇 (Only ONE sentence per comment—no overthinking it, just keep it going)

Earlier discussions here got me thinking about children’s books in colour, especially with Kindle clearly moving toward colour e-readers. I had about two hours free this afternoon and wanted a break from my usual books and longer projects, so I decided to experiment and just make something. I reduced the scope, leaned into illustration-first storytelling, and uploaded a short children’s book to Kindle. It’s now sitting there waiting to go live. Honestly, it’s a bit scary how fast this came together with AI. I know AI is a touchy subject and a lot of people are strongly against it — and I get that. But for those who are already very creative, this feels less like replacement and more like acceleration. This is the level of work people will be producing soon if they’re embracing AI properly. I really encourage anyone who hasn’t yet to at least learn prompting — not to replace your voice, but to enhance it and open up new formats you might not otherwise explore. Curious where everyone here is landing on AI right now. Oh and my spin on the little golden books is I’ve called my series little outback book. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes.