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Feature FRIDAY - Share Your Stuff!
It’s time to put yourself out there. Share whatever you’re working on or proud of right now. This community is full of creators, authors, and entrepreneurs, and sometimes the best thing we can do is help each other get a little more visibility. 💡 IDEAS ON WHAT YOU COULD SHARE: • Yourself and what you do • Your Skool community • A book you're writing or recently published • A project you're building • A shoutout to another member • A video, post, or resource • Affiliate links (yes, those are allowed) The goal is simple: help our members get seen. Just one request so this stays valuable for everyone. 👉 1 RULE: If you share something, please also leave a thoughtful or helpful comment on someone else’s post. Support goes both ways, and when we all participate, the whole community benefits. Now let’s see what everyone is building 👇
Feature FRIDAY - Share Your Stuff!
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@Chelena Peart please do, we gave new content each week!
Too Busy to Write a Book? Read This
What’s actually stopping you from publishing your first book? 🤔 If you don’t have a book out yet… what’s the real reason? Are you too busy? Running another business? Working full-time with kids at home? Yeah… same. That’s exactly why most of my books—I didn’t even write myself. I’ve always been more of an ideas person. I love coming up with concepts, doing the market research, and building out strong outlines. That’s my zone of genius. But the actual writing? Not my strength—and I’m okay with that. That’s where outsourcing changed everything for me. I personally love working with The Urban Writers The experience has been night and day compared to hiring random freelancers. Let me be real with you… The first time I hired someone on Upwork, it started off great… until it didn’t. Excuses started rolling in. Delays kept happening. At one point, the guy told me his laptop broke, and he was trying to complete my book… on his cellphone 😳 I ended up canceling the project 3 chapters in. Total headache. That’s when I switched to The Urban Writers, and I haven’t looked back. Yes, it’s more of an investment upfront, but the quality, structure, and reliability are on a completely different level. My favorite is their premium package: ✔️ Access to top-tier writers ✔️ Up to 20 images included ✔️ Built-in proofreading + editing (huge win) If you’re serious about getting your book DONE—not just thinking about it—this is the move. At some point, you have to decide… 👉 Are you going to keep making excuses? 👉 Or are you ready to start making progress? Let’s go 💪
Too Busy to Write a Book? Read This
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I think the biggest mental challenge must be picking things up again once you have put things down. It’s ok to admit you have too much on your plate - but it’s all about priorities and if you genuinely cannot make time it’s also ok to get someone in to do it for you!
March Leaderboard Winner
We have a new March Leaderboard WINNER 🙌 Give a big shoutout to @Lara Knutzen for crushing the leaderboard this month. What's the PRIZE? ‼️ Lara is already a premium member so I will be getting her access to my upcoming list of profitable book keywords so stay tuned. 💖📣 Big shoutout to the other high achievers on the leaderboard this month. @Gemma Coles @Jeff Baer @Sybil Hall @Rich Gomez I appreciate you all for showing up in this community and sharing things you learn along the way. By the way I am behind getting my April calendar updated but I will be hosting the Author Q&A call tonight for my premium members. Check that out on the calendar.
March Leaderboard Winner
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Well Done @Lara Knutzen !
How Long Should Your Book Be? 📚
This is one of the most common questions I get, the answer is… it depends on your topic. For most nonfiction books, a solid range is 20,000–50,000 words. That’s usually enough to clearly teach something, solve a problem, or guide your reader to a specific result. But here’s the key 👇Longer does NOT always mean better. I’ve seen shorter books perform really well because they are: - Focused - Easy to consume - Straight to the point If your book delivers a clear transformation or solves a specific problem, people will buy it...regardless of length. That said, there’s a business side to this too… 💡 More pages = higher printing costs Which means your royalties can get squeezed if you're not paying attention. 👉 If you want to run the numbers yourself, you can use Amazon’s calculator here: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/royalty-calculator PRO TIP: During formatting, you can strategically adjust things like: - Font size - Line spacing - Margins This can help reduce page count (and printing costs) while still keeping your book clean and professional. At the end of the day, don’t focus on hitting a specific word count—focus on delivering value. That’s what actually sells books 💰
How Long Should Your Book Be? 📚
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I was aiming for 20,000 words ish for my book but I’m struggling to see that is going to be possible. I’m consulted various AI platforms, uploaded chapters 1-3 and asked if there is anything omitted, anything else that could be padded out and all have said no, adding more will just cause duplication and annoy your reader….. I’m going to keep going and see where the numbers come out. Something we can discuss on our next VIP call Krista x
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@Krista Brea maybe. I gave downloadable pdfs and a what comes next page already. Maybe we move to 5x8 size to make it feel like it has more pages. I think my audience wants a lightweight no padding book so not sure how much it matters. Let’s see how the rest of the week goes and we can take it from there.
‼️ NEW KDP RULES ROLLED OUT
🚨 BIG UPDATE 🚨 Amazon just rolled out a new policy change for KDP… and this one is kind of wild 😳 Starting immediately, outsourcing is no longer allowed. That means: - You have to write your own manuscript - No AI tools - No ghostwriters Everything must be 100% written by YOU moving forward. Welp… looks like I’m finally going to have to sit down and start writing all my own books 😅 … .. .. … April Fools 😂 But real talk—this is exactly why learning how to build systems around your publishing (including outsourcing) is such a game-changer. It’s how you scale without burning yourself out.
‼️ NEW KDP RULES ROLLED OUT
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You literally had me convinced! 🤣🤣🤣 you rotter! 🤣
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