The Premium members' group is growing rapidly, and it seems necessary to arrange a weekly event to keep everyone up to speed. Fridays at 15:00 UTC seem the best option to include Europe, the U.S., and Asia. It will be: 7:00 (PST) in Los Angeles 8:00 (MST) in Denver 10:00 (EST) in New York 16:00 (CET) in Berlin 23:00 in Singapore 🗓 The first call will be held the day after tomorrow. Please add it to your calendars. If you want to and can participate, it will be a pleasure to chat. Anyway, the first parts of the calls will be recorded and clipped to YouTube as educational materials for the Guided Publishing System. After the formal part of the calls, including presentations of Guided Publishing System functions, the recording will be turned off, and we can discuss any interesting questions off-record. The calls for the Premium tier will be held every week till the end of March 2026.

You saw the chart. Eight months, 22x royalty growth, 15x profit. Not magic – process. Now I'm setting the next target: $5,000/month by the end of 2026. And I'm doing it publicly, with full transparency on what works and what doesn't. Here's what changed in my thinking going into this year. Low-content got me to $50/month on autopilot. Switching to a quality-first mindset got me past $3,000. But scaling further requires something I spent the last few months building: a repeatable system that doesn't depend on my mood, my schedule, or lucky niche picks. I'm calling it the Guided Publishing System. It's not a course. It's not a prompt pack. It's a structured workflow — built around the idea that AI can do the heavy lifting in execution, while the decisions, creative direction, and judgment calls stay with us. That's what produces defensible, platform-compliant books that actually sell. And that's what separates publishers who plateau from publishers who compound. I'm not ready to open it up fully yet. But I'm looking for a group of serious publishers – people already making something on KDP, already past the "does this even work?" phase – who want to run this alongside me in 2026. What that looks like in practice: Real numbers shared. Real process documented. No cheerleading – just what's working, what broke, and how I'm adjusting. If you're plateaued somewhere between $50 and $1,000/month and you're done waiting to figure out what the next level actually requires, this is worth paying attention to. If $5,000/month is a thing of the past for you, it's amazing! Let's target 5x growth, for example. More details on the Premium tier upgrades will be available soon. Watch this space. --- The chart shows my trajectory from Jan-25 through Dec-25. Your numbers will be different. I hope you will crash it.

Let's take a first taste of the Guided Publishing System. Please read how the system works: https://www.skool.com/guild/classroom/b3937406. It will take about 3 minutes of your time (on every page, you will see the approximate reading time). On weekends, you completed the Publisher Persona interview and saved the results in a file. This is one of the most important files you will provide to the system to produce results that suit you best. Niche Finder will apply your Publisher Persona to the actual data for hundreds of self-published books, published in the last 18 months, with a BSR below 30,000 and fewer than 25 reviews. After you get the first results, you can continue researching, referencing the Sales History provided in the prompt. As soon as you find an interesting niche, you can validate it with the KIP Scout extension: https://www.skool.com/guild/classroom/a909acca?md=3a8050165a21498aa786392aa7704616 Please share your first impressions in the comments. The Guided Publishing System is not set in stone; it's a flexible, constantly updated tool, so your feedback can help fellow publishers.

Relaxed weekend's task for everybody who joined the $5,000/Month Challenge. If we look at the core of every niche research session, we will see the same pattern: We apply our skillset and experience to the market data and search for an intersection. Such intersections become our books in the future. In the Guided Publishing System, you will receive the data, but you must provide your experience and interests. I named this description "Publisher Persona" (OK, I named it "Publisher DNA," but my wife wrinkled her nose and asked, "Do you mean Publisher Persona?"). How to arrange the interview? It is similar to a Book DNA interview: Step 1: The Setup Download the Publisher Persona Interview.md ⤵️ file from Publisher Persona & Book DNA page and upload it to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Type "Execute" and let it guide you through questions about yourself. Step 2: The Secret Sauce Here's the trick: Don't type your answers. Use the microphone instead. Why? Because typing filters your thoughts. Speaking captures the nuance, the emotion, and the real vision of yourself that gets lost when you're staring at a blinking cursor. Step 3: The Brain Dump Just talk. Let the AI dig deeper into what makes you unique—the skills, the life experience, the details that matter. Step 4: The Result Run it through "Fast Mode" to get a clean, summarized TXT file. That's your Publisher Persona—a description of what interests you, what you prefer to avoid, and what niches are a good fit for you. You will need to provide this file to your Niche Finder AI freelancer when you start a new book.