Hello Everyone! Joining you all here, from Florida, to learn from the incredible wisdom and experience you bring; I'll soon publish my first (pre-teen) children's novel. Would love to hear how I can be helpful or encouraging to any of you. Please let me know. Look forward to growing together!

Today’s my birthday and an amazing present came in over the weekend: A print proof of the paperback version of Your Business Growth Playbook! 🤩 It’s beyond exciting to hold in my very hands a physical copy of the book that’s been in my head for years, and in production for over 10 months! 🎯 As for hitting my goal of 50 early reviews by my birthday? We’re SO close at (as of this morning) 41 early reviews! That’s 82% of the way there! And – like me – the day is young! Who do you know that would want early access to my book and be willing to share an early review today so I can hit my goal? Invite them to join us on our launch team right now! 😊 If you haven’t yet taken a moment to share your early review… right now would be great! It’ll only take a moment! Help Me Hit My Birthday Goal! Share Your Early Review Now! 41 wonderful folks already have – maybe even you – and for that, I thank you. And now… I’m off to enjoy the rest of my birthday!

So, when adding my ePUB to Amazon KDP, there's an important question about DRM that once answered can never be changed... It asks "apply Digital Rights Management (DRM) to your files?" followed by "Note: This cannot be changed after publication." Everything I've read basically says "Nah, don't do it" but I also don't see a reason NOT to do it now in 2025...? Most of the arguments against doing it don't seem to apply anymore, like... nobody can download their Kindle files to USB or whatever these days and it doesn't impact sales outside of Amazon, since it's just for my upload to KDP... Anyway, what option have y'all chosen and why...? :)

So excited to finally be in a place to dive into writing my first book... I love the incredible Pro-Tips on Youtube and grateful to be in a community that is all about this!

Just wanted to double-check that it's okay and SAFE to use free and paid book promotion sites like these https://kindlepreneur.com/list-sites-promote-free-amazon-books/ during launch. I'm asking because I've used several of these sites before during launch and never had a problem but I've heard of some people who had their account banned after they submitted to some of these sites. I'm not sure if this kind of problem can still potentially exist but wanted to check. - Thanks