Just a quick update: we have a new leader for image generation - GPT Image 2 (ChatGPT). It's not a small improvement but a huge leap forward. Have you tested it already?

It took me a week to pull myself away from working on my books after a wellspring of insights at the London Mastermind. It seems that YouTube and communities are becoming less and less relevant as sources of information in a world where LLMs commodify knowledge. At the same time, for building mutually beneficial tools and finding new ideas, communities become more important than ever. It's the way the Guild will be developed - the place to make our publishing experience delightful. Together. Let me tell you about the major updates in the Guild: 💥 All resources temporarily become free for everyone, regardless of tier. Till the end of Q3. Why? Because the only way to create the best tools is to collect as much feedback as humanly possible. The wishes shared by @Yannick Di Mondo and @Sven Georgiev led to changes in the Guided Publishing System, prompting me to create books I would not have created without the system. I want to empower this feedback loop by making the tools available to everybody. 💲 What is the reason to keep the Premium tier if everything becomes free for a few months? In the short term, there are no visible reasons other than the willingness to show your support (and I cannot find the right words to express my appreciation to all of you who support my actions). In the long term, if you keep your $10/month subscription, it will pay off in half a year and then become profitable. Anyway, I hugely appreciate all of the Premium members' support. 💻 Fridays at 15:00 UTC online meetings are open to everyone. This Friday, I will share my ideas after the London Mastermind. 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 Any thoughts? Wishes? Ideas?

I was thinking after the Author's Note, as it feels this could fit in there, but I was wondering if there's something like "best practices"?

Context, I didn’t start writing books to look up best sellers on Amazon and copy them to make money (no offense to anyone )I started writing self help books in Oct 2025 for men and boys without guidance ,but learning about book bounty basically paying $4.99 for a review and having to read low quality books for fake reviews just to get 20 to start running ads was alot ingenious behavior I couldn’t sleep with , I ended up going with Lulu and plan to read a chapter of my books live on TikTok ,twitch and instagram daily to get eyes on the prize . How long does Lulu usually take to complete global distribution and does it still end up on Amazon and Barnes and noble when it’s complete ? any advice about Lulu much appreciated thanks everyone

For any non USA citizen, when we get our royalties, we pay conversion charges on the amount and when we spend in Amazon ads, we again pay conversion charges, and in both the cases, some bank forex charges are also applied. So I was looking for a solution where I can keep my royalties in local account and pay via this one for ads, this way I can avoid double conversion charges. While searching about it online, I found out about Payoneer, according to AI mode of Google search, this saves 7-9% or transaction costs. So I am curious to know if anyone uses Payoneer or any similar service.