I have been a member for some time now, browsing, searching and learning but not posting very actively on this Skool. I am also that one-book writer putting his life journey into ink. In my case, it is about my move to Thailand and living, working and surviving here for the past years. About a year ago, for medical reasons, I left Bangkok to semi-retire with my wife in rural Thailand. That allowed me a lot of time to finish rewriting all my existing articles on the subjects contained in my book into storytelling reads that would appeal to a broad, interested audience. Since joining this group, I have learnt a lot, especially from participating in one of Igor's calls. Thank you Igor and the two other people who were present. That was an interesting exchange. My biggest obstacles were learning and realising that KDP is not simply uploading a .doc file, and secondly, keeping myself motivated a couple of hours a week to work on my book, especially since we moved to rural Thailand, where the pace is so much slower. The latter is still an issue, as life is good here. Progress: The word count, tone of voice, spelling (UK spelling), length and read time of each chapter, introduction, glossary, about the author and this book, and imprint – all that is done. Photos: One of the things I learned along the way is that colour is soooo much more expensive, so I had to remove all the hyperlink blue and emojis and then work on my imagery. Learning about the use of colour and the cost of size affecting your split (I wanted to stay in the 70%), I selected 14 black and white photos from my collection of hundreds of pictures taken over the past 5+ years and then went to AI to ask what should be done with them. I also secured written approval from anyone who appeared in the pictures. Each picture is now: - 300 DPI - 900x1367 dimensions - total size is under 6 Mb Notary & Trust: Sadly I had a very negative experience with a publisher who mistook my being a first-time writer of a book for being gullible in business and unintelligent about publishing. He overlooked the fact that I had worked a hundred years ago as a proofreader and Jack-of-all-trades at a large Dutch/British publisher, and that I had also worked for four years at the largest newspaper conglomerate in the Netherlands. 😆 He also overlooked the fact that I had read about notaries and had taken some rather silly selfies of myself at my PC while writing my book, as well as other ways I was able to prove I am the author. It did, however, make me very insecure when other people asked me to read my work. Right now I am even too insecure to include the teaser (introduction and part of chapter 1) of my book here. Sorry for that.

Hello everyone. I am from Ottawa Canada and my first book went live today!! Now I have no idea what to do lol!!!

I have a seasonal book on Amazon and I am thinking to give it more push by adding a video ad, I am wondering if anyone in the group tried video ad, and did it work for you

I only had 6 books in my 9 months journey on KDP so far and was able to keep my A+ content up-to-date (and not too bad quality). I've increased my production pace and now I can release new books with relative low effort & time. But my bottleneck remains in updating A+ content across all marketplaces... The more books I have, the more time it takes, as I haven't been able to automatize it. The creation of banners is actually fast, but it is the updates inside KDP, for all marketplaces, that takes ages... Anyone has been able to find a smart way for managing this ??? Any extension ?? Anything with Claude CoWork or else ?? I remember reading in a forum @Hector Martín was able to release like 60+ books in a short time , how are you managing the A+ content for them ?? Tx in advance for any help !!!! @Igor O @Thomas Juuls @Hector Martín

My first AI-narrated ebooks are in the publishing state, so I am interested - does anybody already have any experience with that format?