Hey, just saying hi and to say that Dan and I will be at the meeting tomorrow. We've changed our wkout timing for tomorrow. See you then!

How is everyone? Sorry to have missed the last meeting. We are back from our cruise, now with internet but still visiting in Vancouver and not quite back to our home offices. 7 days without internet was a nice digital detox but happy to be back to books. Anyone published a book recently?

How do you guys handle pen names or author names for books that are generated entirely by AI? Do you give full disclosure about how it was written or do you use pen names? When creating a brand I am asking myself how to deal with author page and so on. What do you think?

Here's an easy and quick way to create great covers for your book: Drop the attachment into your favorite AI. Give it your book title and author name. Tell it to give you prompts following the prompt guide. Paste those prompts into https://ideogram.ai/ at 10:16 ratio. Choose your favorite cover. Profit.

I use Atticus to format the books (Working on getting the code to do it). I just formatted a book in 10 minutes. After creating the master pages (I have prompt templates for new brands) and making the theme I want (I cycle between two themes for all my brands currently), formatting each consecutive book is easy. I scan the book, fix the weird returns Atticus adds randomly to the titles, and export in epub and pdf. Books done. I make covers in ideogram.ai. (I have a prompt template for this too) I have my list of books already so I can batch covers. I run prompts for each book title until I have a few I like. I make 10-20 covers at a time. Download the PNG files. Add 2-3 per book to the book folder on my computer. Then, when I go back to choose a cover, I pick the one that stands out the most. Easy. Backcover? Sometimes, ideogram will make good back covers in its canvas feature. Sometimes I generate it with generative fill in Photoshop. Solid spines and back covers look fine, too. I try not to get too lost in the details. I use the template that Amazon provides after I enter the number of words from the PDF. Open it in Photoshop. Add the front cover and create the back. (I'll make a video on this if people want) Then I throw the metadata file into GPT and ask it to generate the text for the back cover. Sometimes I need to say make it smaller. Copy paste. Done. The metadata file that comes with the books makes publishing brainless. Create KDP. Create Paperback. Next mission. When the book launches, I run ads. 5-10$/day on 20 books only spends like $5/day, no big deal. Autotarget or target a similar product. 20 clicks and no sales? Kill it. Over 70 acos after 5 sales? Tweak the sales page or kill it. Better than 70 ACOS? Increase the budget. I don't do review farming or pay for reviews. Too much time, too risky long term. I don't do any marketing yet. However, I ensure that each book directs users to a backend where I can build a list and increase lifetime customer value. So I have the opportunity to create a snowball with each book, then I can promote new launches to my brands audience.