The Books Next to Your Book So here's a thing that happened to me about three months into running this community, and I'm pretty sure it happened to you too, or it will, and nobody warned either of us. I watched an author — sharp writer, genuinely good book, had done everything "right" — post her launch blurb. She'd listed her comps with real care. Thoughtful ones. Books she actually respected, books that were doing well in her lane, books she'd studied. She was proud of that list. I could tell. A month later she came back into the channel with this very specific energy that I can only describe as "politely freaking out." She'd gone to her Amazon page and looked at the also-bought strip — the row of books that shows up under "Customers who bought this item also bought" — and the neighbors were wrong. Not a little wrong. Confusingly, embarrassingly wrong. One thriller she'd never heard of. A memoir with a pink cover that had nothing to do with anything. Something with a dragon on it that she definitely didn't write. She wanted to know what she'd done wrong. And here's the thing I had to tell her, and here's the thing I have to tell you: she hadn't done anything wrong. She'd just misunderstood what the strip is. The Quiet Mechanics First I'm going to state this plainly and early because the whole piece falls apart if you skip it. Also-boughts are co-purchase data. That's it. That's the whole mechanism. When a reader buys your book, Amazon notes what else that specific reader has bought — recently, in the same session, or in some rolling window of their purchase history that Amazon doesn't fully disclose but definitely uses. Do that enough times across enough buyers, and patterns emerge. Those patterns become the strip. The marble is in the bucket. No metaphors needed. A human being clicked "buy" on your book and also clicked "buy" on those other books. Amazon is just showing you the ledger. This means a few things you need to hold onto: It's not about rank. A book can be number one in a category and still have a weird also-bought strip if the readers who bought it are buying weird other things. The algorithm doesn't care about rank when it builds the strip.

Yeah, but not really... 3dbookmock.pro a NON Ai solution to a NON problem because we use AI... I refer you to the article below https://www.skool.com/ai-pro-writers-studio/3d-cover-images?p=4596c78c where I described an easy way to do what 3dbookmock.pro does. If you have a cover design you can import it and rotate to get the 3d view you want. Works with up to 12 books in a series for box sets or layouts. A bunch of defaults, a bunch of settings and you can download templates to use for your covers and then re-import them back. I'll add this into WCP at some point because its quick and easy (no cost) and the templates are great. STILL in production but it works and the site is live. no charge yet ($49 for its closest equivalent..sheesh). Only took me a night to write it. I'll be adding a submit email for login next (gotta get those emails..remember!) and adding a couple more things. Of Course everyone here gets it free for now to play with and I'll put it at the pro level next week.

Okay, I'm getting video's ready for the launch of Tilted-Earth-World a world sharing based on my novel Hidden Dragons. Check out the first one of the video's. If you are interested in being part of this please message me here.

I learned something very important today... if you have a story built and you import it, if said story had prologue, you need to do something special to it. you need to change the title to Chapter 1 or chapter 1 prologue or chapter 1a, just so it has a number in sequence to where it is on the the index/TOC. I've been trying to move a 0q3rq88r)(&(*_)) prologue in front of chapter 1 for almost an hour. I tried many things but the only thing that worked was changing the title to chapter 1 prologue, then it moved exactly where I wanted. I do not think I will forget this little life lesson.

How many ways do you use to make money off your projects/books. Are they traditional ways or thinking outside the box? For instance traditions - get your name out through writing in magazines, or doing a blog. outside the box: creating a vertical movie script etc. - writing the sound track or main song for the theme of the book?