If anyone has an author website that they’re particularly proud of, can you share a link? I’d just like to see some good examples in order to get some ideas for my own page. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone — I'm Connie Woolsey. My book is Forge Your Freedom, coming in 2027. It's the story of how I climbed to VP of retail in Florida's cannabis industry — building stores from the ground up during COVID, running on caffeine, fast food, and whiskey just to sleep — while quietly falling apart on the inside. A health scare finally forced me to stop overriding every signal my body was sending me, and the rebuild that followed became my framework: the Ownership Practice. Taking full responsibility for your life, without the burnout or the blame. You are your problem, and you are your solution. Where I am: deep in copyedits and working toward a 2027 launch with Book Launchers. Honestly, the writing has been the (surprisingly) easier part — right now I'm focused on learning how to launch well, especially since I'm building my audience mostly from scratch. What I'm hoping for here is, truthfully, the people. I'd love to learn from authors a few steps ahead of me on launch and platform-building, and to cheer on the folks who are earlier in the process than I am. This road feels a lot less lonely with company. Really glad to be here — can't wait to meet you all.

I received an unsolicited offer from the "Distribution & Author Relations Department, American Book House" for my latest book, Confessions of a Reformed Financial Advisor (Yep, It's Mostly BS). Has anyone heard of them? I told them no, and they countered. I'm also getting lots of emails from the "I'm going to make you famous crowd, which I ignore. Currently, I'm on KDP and plan to use IngramSpark after I get an ISBN issue resolved. Any advice?

Book Launch's Author Launch Kit suggests establishing a Wikipedia/Wikidata Entry. While one can create a Wikidata entry for oneself, one cannot create a Wikipedia entry. How do you suggest going about doing that if the person has vetted creative sources and qualifications?

I feel like we spend so much time trying to figure out where our readers should be that we sometimes overlook where they’re actually finding us. Maybe it was a random conversation, a recommendation from another reader, a post you almost didn’t share, a newsletter, a book club, a podcast, a local event, or something completely unexpected. Where have your readers actually been coming from lately, and what have you been doing that seems to be helping? Even if it only brought you a handful of new readers, I’d still love to hear about it. Sometimes the small discoveries are the ones that give another author their next idea.