What are you excited about? Share something good--a new cover, some words, an idea you have, a win! Let's celebrate each other!

Hey everyone, I'm currently running a 21-day experiment to revive a dormant pen name (inactive between 2018-2024 and released in too many genres, I'm fixing that!) using a Digital Special Edition framework, and I wanted to share some early tech stack data. Like many of you, I have image-heavy, asset-rich files (mine has custom-embedded soundscapes, running at 20MB). - The Amazon Problem: Under Amazon's 70% royalty, a 20MB file triggers a $3.00 delivery fee penalty per download. If I sold it there for $4.99, I'd net $0.49. Plus, Kindle's legacy rendering strips out custom formatting and flattens images. - The Direct Solution: I bypassed Amazon entirely. I built a premium, fixed-layout ePUB, launched on Kickstarter, and locked in delivery via BookFunnel to protect the margins and handle the tech support. We hit 40% funding in the first 48 hours, but as expected with a cold list, the mid-campaign flatline is real (zero sales today). I am treating this entire campaign as a live audit for direct-to-consumer multimedia formatting. My question for the group: For those of you who have successfully revived dormant backlists or run direct-delivery campaigns for premium digital assets, what did your mid-campaign traffic push look like when you couldn't rely on Amazon's algorithm? If you want to poke at the layout or audit the campaign page to see how the file size/pricing model is structured, here is the live link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lcgiroux/a-regency-romance-like-youve-never-experienced?ref=18stkl&token=b3a86c8e I'd love any and all feedback!

An author who I consider rather successful told me this morning that when she (her assistant, actually) sends out her newsletter, a few days later they'll send the exact newsletter out again to everyone who didn't open it the first time. They just change the subject line. She said that 30-65% of the people who didn't open the newsletter the first time will open it the second time. I thought that was wild! Has anyone here done this? Did/do you see similar results? I was thinking about trying it.

Hi everyone! I was going to post this in the Mastermind FB group, but I really appreciate the smaller group here and the sense of community. I hope it's okay if I seek input! For anyone who has changed their covers (this would be my first time), did you do an ad test to choose a new one? And was there any trouble if the cover at retailers was still the old version while you ran the test? I hope that makes sense... There's been a swing in cover design format in my main subgenre, and I want to go with the flow, but I don't know if I should just dive right in with a new cover that I choose, or do a test between a couple of new options, or... well, you get the picture. 😅 This is my first rodeo, so any input and opinions are so very welcome and appreciated!! 🙌

If you've ever heard this phrase and wondered what it means, here are my thoughts: 1. Set up a business entity or at least get a separate bank account for your book earns. 2. Track your income and expenses. Re-invest profits into your business. (people like the book Profit First for a strategy, but I only apply the advice that works for me) 3. Write for you, edit for the reader, package the book for the market. 4. Stasia teaches the 5 levers of marketing - 1. Book cover 2. Book blurb 3. Ad copy (the hooks) 4. Ad creative (the video or image) 5. Audience. Pull these levers (change out covers, copy, blurbs) until you find profit. Those are my high level thoughts, BUT I'm asking Golden Angel to come share her Money Matters for Authors talk about Money Mistakes authors make during the Bootcamp. She's also going to do a Launch Budget presentation, so if you have any specific questions, post them here!