Publishing tools are easier to access than ever, which is amazing—but we still have a responsibility to publish ethically. ✅ 𝗗𝗢 - Use photos, graphics, and illustrations you created or have permission to use. - Use properly licensed stock images, fonts, and design elements. - Check commercial-use rights before putting anything into a book or on a cover. - Create original covers, descriptions, interiors, and branding. - Get permission when using identifiable real people in your books, stories, or marketing. - Use AI as a tool to assist your work while still reviewing what it creates. - Respect other authors, creators, community members, and their intellectual property. - Fictionalize identifying details when you're inspired by real-life situations and do not have permission to share them. 🚫 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 - Do NOT use someone else's personal photo on your book cover without written permission. - Do NOT assume a photo is free to use because it was posted on Facebook, Instagram, Skool, Google, or another website. - Do NOT publish stories about real people in a way that makes them identifiable without considering consent and privacy. - Do NOT copy another author's cover, title treatment, description, interior, branding, or content. - Do NOT use AI to recreate someone's likeness or work and assume that makes it okay to publish. - Do NOT take screenshots, community posts, private conversations, or personal information and turn them into book content without permission. - Do NOT assume that because you technically can publish something, you should. ⭐ 𝗔 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 If you would feel violated, embarrassed, or uncomfortable finding out someone published it about YOU without asking, think twice before publishing it about someone else. We can build profitable publishing businesses while still respecting copyright, consent, privacy, and other creators. What would you add to this list? 👇

🚨 DON’T CANCEL YOUR MEMBERSHIP! I learned a hard lesson about Skool, and it’s my responsibility to make sure you know about it too. If you recently upgraded to Premium and you’re thinking about canceling now just so you don’t forget before the next auto-renewal… DON’T. Apparently, when you cancel on Skool, your Premium access can be removed immediately…even if you already paid for the current billing period. This is not my rule and unfortunately not something I can control. It’s simply how the platform currently handles cancellations. So if you know you don’t want to renew, my recommendation is to set a reminder on your phone for a few days before your rebill date and cancel closer to that date instead. I’d hate for anyone to pay for Premium and then accidentally lose access to the trainings, resources, calls, and support they already paid for. Please keep this in mind before hitting that cancel button! ❤️

Welcome to the New Authors & Future Authors Joining the Community. 📚 If you're new here and you already have a book GREAT! Make sure you get it submitted to the 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬. 📝 If you're looking to publish your first book and you want some guidance on how to get started, take the course 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗬. WELCOME IN .... @Michael Culp - Fantasy/sci-fi author, woodworker/Crafter & entrepreneur from Kentucky. I build stories, handmade goods, and creative systems. (Referred by @Lara Knutzen ) @Gladys England - New to this @Maria Short - this life is to soft @Gabriel Najera - Motivational speaker & personal development coach (Referred by @Rasheed Hooda ) @Michelle Kirkpatrick - I encourage all grandmothers to join this digital movement (referred by @Gina Trigo ) @Evie Diaz - Rev.Evie Diaz, Financial Empowerment Speaker and Financial Trauma NeuroSomatic Specialist created the F.A.B. MoneyScripting™ Method of Manifesting. (Referred by @Lara Knutzen ) @Rebecca Shaw - Newbie 🤗 (Referred by @Jen Pm ) @Rosalyn Clark - Lifelong student (Referred by @Jen Pm ) @Zacchaeus Paye - I am a graduate from the University of Liberia with bachelor degree in Civil Engineering. I writing and reading and willing to learn new skills. (referred by @Julie Wilson )

We spend so much time online either creating content or consuming what other people create—and most of us probably do a little of both. So I’m curious… what have you been doing more of lately? 👇 Share ONE thing in the comments that you’ve recently CREATED or CONSUMED. It could be a post, video, book, podcast, Pinterest pin, article, show—anything! Bonus points if you share a link or picture so we can check it out too. 🙌

Welcome to the New Authors & Future Authors Joining the Community. 📚 If you're new here and you already have a book GREAT! Make sure you get it submitted to the 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬. 📝 If you're looking to publish your first book and you want some guidance on how to get started, take the course 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗬. WELCOME IN .... @Nancy Beauchene (referred by @Jessica Waldron ) @Kalaivani Ramanathan - Science Researcher who is interested in working with chidren. @Georgina Al Hallis - Experienced in education in Ontario, Canada and in Sweden. I speak Romanian, French, English, Swedish and Serbian, and I love to travel. (Referred by @Adelina Rosa ) @Karen O'Connor - 10 years full time fiction author writing mysteries with magic and talking familiars. (Referred by @Jessica Waldron ) @Jocelyn Harris - Ready to get started with publishing! (Referred by @Dr. Shermnae Jones ) @Christen Dunn - (referred by @Jessica Waldron ) @Verena Boeheim - Newly retired. Self-published Author. Just moved to Croatia to reinvent myself. (referred by @Jessica Waldron ) @Dawn Dawkins - Cowgirl/farmgirl and author, living on the eastern plains of Colorado. Mom to 4 girls, Nan to 2 babies and happy wife. I run a publishing company