I wanted to share a small milestone I'm genuinely grateful for—I recently reached Top Rated on Upwork. Looking back, it wasn't one big breakthrough that got me here. It was a lot of small improvements repeated over time: writing better proposals, communicating clearly, meeting deadlines, listening to client feedback, and always trying to leave every project a little better than I found it. One lesson that surprised me is that clients rarely hire the person who talks the most about themselves. They hire the person who understands their problem and explains how they'll solve it. That mindset changed the way I approach both my work and my proposals. I'm grateful to every client who trusted me with their publishing projects and to communities like this one where I've continued learning from others. Still learning. Still improving. On to the next milestone. 🚀 Thank you @Laura Diaz @Meggy Halfon @Igor O for trusting me with your projects

It's great you joined the Guild! If you prefer to start with the structure, KDP Roadmap 2.0 provides it. This roadmap shows the complete transformation from idea to royalties. It’s not a fixed document but a living outline of your KDP journey. 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ 🤑 Special offers for the Premium members: BookVillage (Review Collection Service): 30 days for free, and a special offer after the trial. Get ProtectMyWork (Independent Witness for Copyright Protection): 20% discount (£8.50) for the first year. Get 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ 🆓 Special offers for all members: BookVillage (Review Collection Service): 30 days for free, and a special offer after the trial. Get 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ Let your royalties be high and have fun!

Recently i saw a post from our newest member facing some formatting issues and i reached out to her to help her out cos her book keeps getting rejected on kdp as of now @Meggy Halfon and i are still working so we can get through that. more details will be shared later. For new members just joining us i urge you to refer to the classroom section there are a lot of tools to help you make your publishing journey easier and it is free till the end of Q3 this guides have helped me myself and it would be nice to share with you. Kindly share your publishing worries you just might see the right help here Welcome to Royalty Guild once again.

✨ Reading Time: < 1m | Utility: High Answering questions about the tools I use for niche research, I realized that 90% of the time I use BookBeam is for the Book Tracker function to track BSRs and reviews of my books. BookBeam is a pretty expensive tool, and I started to question myself: Is it really necessary to pay for the subscription just to have the tracker? Of course, Publisher Champ has all the data, and I can look at BSR and reviews there, but Publisher Champ is so informationally dense that I still prefer to use the clean interface of BookBeam. It looks like a hard decision to make. Since I do not like to burden myself with unnecessary, hard decisions, I decided to choose the third option: create a Catalog Tracker for myself. Decision made → done. Now I have the Catalog Tracker. It is lightweight, clean, and highly functional. And if I did it and I like it, why not share it with others, right? So, you can try it right now. Comment "TRACK" below, and I'll message you the link to try it out for free. You can track up to 50 books. But the most important thing is that if you have a catalog of tens or hundreds of books, you do not need to make a decision which books are worthy of tracking - start from the Royalty Guild Sales Analyzer and add your most performing books to the Catalog Tracker automatically. If you are using your BookBeam subscription the same way I am, and the tracker helps you save on it, that would be great. P.S. If you do use it, let me know: What’s one feature you wish BookBeam had that could be added to this?

This is a very nice gift from Amazon – your book is sold at a discounted price, but you still receive full royalties. Of course, nobody can tell you for sure how to get it, but some ideas can help you a lot. The last two weeks, I conducted a few experiments to test some of the assumptions I had based on my previous experience. Let me share what I found. 1. Your book should ideally be new, and you need traction. In other words, if you published a book, actively promoted it, and sales are on the rise, it is highly likely you will have a price strike. 2. Do not hesitate to raise the price dramatically. In one instance, I increased the price from 12.95 to 49.95 and got the strike-through price. Yes, it's tempting to buy a few hundred of your own books in such a situation, because it would be profitable. But I do not think it's worth risking your account for a quick buck. 3. If you arrange an ads-heavy launch and strike-through price strategically, you can recoup a significant portion of your net losses during the days of your price strike. What is your experience with strike-through prices? Would you like to add something to my findings?