Do you: ☕ Light a candle and sip coffee while you type? 📖 Play music and get into flow? 🌞 Write before the house wakes up? 🌙 Cram it in at midnight between client calls and laundry?

Abbie, found two topics that are health and wellness related. I’ve been left high and dry by two doctors for two different ailments. These are both not low content (again, like my first book, which I still need to finish) but they all fit in with my “SustainaBelle Wellness” pillar. Writing “for yourself” is a great idea because you are fighting with something and you are not alone although you might feel like it. A book is a great way of sharing, caring and giving hope.

Sorry to be morbid - or perhaps just practical - but this popped into my inbox today from Rachel Harrison Sund so thought I would share What happens to your Amazon KDP account—and any future royalties—after you die? This question had never been a thought bubble popping out from my noggin until a student brought it up in one of our Q&A calls (shoutout to Pam!). But the reality is that, if you don't have a plan in place, your loved ones might never see a penny from the books you worked so hard to create. In my latest video, I break down: - Exactly what happens to your KDP account after you pass away - The specific steps you should take RIGHT NOW to protect your books and make sure future royalties reach your family - What happens if your account is under an LLC or corporation instead of your personal name (this is a VERY different thing) It’s not the most glamorous part of self-publishing, but it’s knowledge every self-publisher using KDP should know. Watch the video here now. Wx 🩷

Xmas jumpers are optional for today’s live Q4 session!!!! I’m wearing mine!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🎄

So I joined a higher ticket Book Publishing Coaching Group - the guy running it has been a book publisher for 15 years and is now at multiple 6 figures! He provides feedback with book covers and helps with running Amazon Ads (which is the thing I didnt know much about!) and so that was the reason why I joined it! Plus I am able to be in a community of high level long term publishers too which I thought would be good for me! Anyways.............I submitted my last 2 word search puzzle books for book cover feedback to see what he would say. To my horror he just told me he "doesn't like busy book covers" and to take all the photos and graphics off the front of my covers! So I was advised to take off the sofa chair and the fireplace and the lamp and the plant to turn it into a totally PLAIN book cover! WHY? The reasoning? Because he personally "doesnt like busy book covers!!!" ___ So I was pretty gobsmacked actually. He didn't even try to see what book covers perform the best in these categories or what types of covers are getting the most sales! When you look at the best selling autum and winter and xmas gift word search book covers its the grafics on the front that are setting the best sellers apart from the beginners and the novice books that are just making a few drops and drabs of sales here and there! I even purchased some top best-selling word search books and they all have well-designed nice busy covers. My target audience for the winter one is women over 40+ and seniors who want to curl up and be cosy in front of the fire with their puzzle book - my target audience is not a middle aged bloke who is a book publisher or even a guy who prefers plain book covers! This bloke made no attempt to even@ look at my book through the lens of my target audience. He just told me his own preference! And when I look at all the plain word search book covers...literally NONE OF THEM are performing as well as the busier more designed covers. ______ I'm telling you this because I am shocked. If I took this guys advice then I would be publishing a completely plain series of word search puzzle books just like all the rest of the books that tick over with a few piddly sales here and there on Amazon!