Check out Issue 12 of the Skool Magazine here https://skoo.ly/readskoolmagazine12 my article on Polls is on pg 74.

I'm going to pin this to the beginning of the page and would like it see if everyone wanted to post their books that they've written on here. You can post as many links as you want as often as you want. I'd like to celebrate wins for everyone!

How to Find Your 1,000 True Fans: A Real Guide for Independent Authors I mentioned the another day that I spent a ton of Ai tokens this weekend doing research on 4000 emails. This is one of the items I got out of it and I will be following this advice for the next 6 months to see how it pans out The honest truth about building a fanbase and selling books in 2026 You've written a book. Maybe you've written five. You've published them, and now you're waiting for readers to show up. They don't. Not at first, anyway. Here's what nobody tells you: the authors who make a living aren't the ones who wrote one great book. They're the ones who built a system for finding readers, keeping them, and turning them into fans who buy everything they release. The math is simple — 1,000 readers who spend $100 a year on your work equals $100,000 annually. But the number itself is a distraction. The real question is: where are these readers, why would they care about your books, and how do you turn a casual reader into someone who'll buy your next release on day one? This article answers those questions. It's built on what's actually working right now, not theory. And it ends with a concrete 3-month plan you can start this week — broken down by genre, because fantasy authors and romance authors need different strategies. Let's get into it. Part 1: The Big Picture — Three Things Changing Everything Before we talk tactics, you need to understand the landscape. Three shifts are reshaping independent publishing in 2026. Shift #1: Owning Your Audience Matters More Than Ever For years, the advice was "build a mailing list." That's still good advice, but it's incomplete. Independent authors grew revenue 64% year over year, dramatically outpacing traditional publishers at 24%. The authors winning are the ones who own a direct relationship with their readers — not just an email list, but a way to sell directly to them. Here's why this matters: when you sell through Amazon, Amazon owns the customer. They have the reader's email. They have the credit card. They have the reading data. They decide what your reader sees next. You get a royalty check and that's it. Email newsletters are among the top discovery channels for books, outperforming social media for high-intent buyers. Readers who find books through email are primed to buy — they're actively looking, not scrolling passively.

Welcome all new folks!! It has been a bit since i did this so hopefully I didn't miss anyone. This has been a great month for growth! Just ask for anything you need help with , want to see or hear about or give me suggestions. So a big welcome for: @Erin Havel @Zuliquey Pena @Aurelia Drake @Kate Golden @Candi Finley @John Larry @Zak King @John Larry @Joy Studio @Author Ostensible Mammal @David Le luron @Shirley Francois @Jay Sanghvi @David Ridge @Shayan Danish @Sarah Bessey @Ryan Mitchell @Liz Tomforde @Matthias Krause @Mary Nunaley @Ilse K Welcome to the Room!! This is a site to help all authors, but especially those who want to write with AI help and not create Crap! This is also the support Channel for two online writing apps WordCrafter.Pro and BookWeaver.pro! BookWeaver.Pro is a fully automated writing tool that creates books for you but you stay in control, being able to edit along the way. BookWeaver also includes PlotCrafter a tool to generate plot ideas when you don't know what to write. Never have writers block again! Wordcrafter.Pro has a unique system that allows you to work with a virtual AI team of personas rather than just tell claude"Write this".

Sell It Again: 141 Ways to Make Money From A Book You Already Wrote by Michael Culp (Author) Format: Kindle Edition You published a book. You're refreshing your KDP dashboard, watching a handful of sales trickle in, and everyone's advice boils down to the same nine ideas: ebook, paperback, audiobook, maybe a course, write the next one. Nine is not the number. Nine is what you get when you only count sales. Sales is one category out of eleven. The actual number, once you count formats separately from channels, channels separately from rights, and rights separately from the statutory money that governments in thirty-five countries are holding for authors who never fill out a form, is 141. Sell It Again catalogs every single one of them — from the afternoon fixes that cost nothing (update your back matter, claim your Public Lending Right money, open the deleted scenes folder) to the career-scale plays (foreign rights, special editions, AI training licenses, shared-world licensing). Each entry tells you what the stream is, how the money actually works, what it takes to build, and the one specific mistake most authors make. This is not a motivational book. It is an inventory of assets you already own — rights, formats, channels, and knowledge — and a map of every place those assets can earn. Most full-time authors run somewhere between eight and twenty of these streams. This book shows you the rest. Because the money you're missing isn't exotic. It's sitting in seven ordinary places, and it's missing for ordinary reasons. One of them is that nobody told you it was there. https://a.co/d/080YZ4sU After Saturday it will be $9.99 EVERYONE HERE should get your free copy. When it gets updated (and it will) the update will get pushed to you free! All I ask is that you give it a review. It's a marketing test.