⚠️ Before you write a single word of your book, do this first. Most authors start with writing and then hope the market responds. That is the long way around, and honestly, the reason so many books sit at zero sales. The smarter move is to flip the process entirely. Test demand first. Then write. 🔍 Checking whether people are actively searching for and buying books on your topic takes minutes. Writing a book takes months. If you skip the demand check you risk spending all of that time on something nobody is looking for. Here is what you are looking for when you validate a topic. You want to see multiple books ranking in that category, not just one outlier. You want clear problem-solving themes showing up in titles and subtitles. You want proof that people are already buying books like yours. You do not need to dominate the category. You just need room to enter it. 📖 There are two extremes to avoid. Categories so competitive that big publishers with thousands of reviews crowd out everything else. And categories so empty that there is no real demand at all. The sweet spot is enough buyers to make sales possible and enough room for a new author to get discovered. One of the best tools I use for this is Publisher Rocket. It takes the guesswork out of keyword research and shows you exactly what readers are searching for on Amazon before you commit to a topic. All of this is covered in much more detail inside my 💥Topic Clarity Playbook, one of four playbooks you can grab right now for just $15. This is my complete brain dump on how I have generated over $100k in royalties from self-publishing part-time. Grab all four here before the price goes back up: 👉 😉 GET THE PUBLISHING PLAYBOOKS FOR ONLY $15

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Submitted my book for paperback this afternoon. Now I patiently wait the up to 72 hours. It was a struggle getting it formatted my first time, Claude was not listening well today, but I did it! 😀 **UPDATE - paperback is live already woot woot** Thanks for the encouragement

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