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

Finally Choose Yourself: median BSR 15,210; median review count: 6. My KDP toolbox generates many more gems than I could humanly use. After weeks of thought, I decided it would be irresponsible to keep them to myself. It is not the "cherry-picking" so popular in a lot of YouTube videos: "Look, this book sells thousands of copies a day. It's so easy to make a similar book," with information about thousands of similar books that never had even one sale conveniently left untold. I will do the opposite, showing you clusters of books with very high BSR and review counts close to zero. And I will give you the words that are linked to the cluster - the first three words of this message. I started to use this technique to find good anomalies on Amazon about a month ago, and the first book I published as a result has a BSR steadily around 30,000 with zero reviews. ----- And now, the books (the links are affiliate, and yes, I know there is a low chance any of you will purchase them): I Owed Myself This: 100 Sessions to Finally Choose Yourself Without Guilt and Stop Tolerating Less Than You Deserve Loyal to Me: 110 truths to stop tolerating what drains you and finally choose yourself without guilt PEOPLE SKILLS: Master People, Master Conversations, and Master Yourself What do you think about this format? Would you like to have it in the future?

Surprising but predictable results: in blind tests, customers prefer AI-narrated books, yet prefer to purchase human-made ones. This is a great example of the current state of the industry: the quality of generative tools' production has leveled up with or exceeded average human levels. Yet, most customers still prefer to read or listen to a fellow human. Experience and taste - these two elements are necessary to produce a valuable product, and no tool can substitute them.

Hi everyone! Glad to join the Guild. I've got books out, but I'm working on turning that into a real, compounding process rather than one-off wins, so I'm here to learn how you all approach it. I also built a tool that helps me get my manuscript ready to publish. Looking forward to learning from everyone here, and happy to help where I can.