Back in 2021 I started creating composition notebooks on KDP. The niche was already getting crowded and the price point everyone was selling at was $5.99 or $6.99. I eventually walked away from it (even though my notebooks were REALLLLLY cute 🥰) Then in December 2025 I logged back into my KDP account and saw a random sale had come through. My royalty? $0.16. Sixteen cents!!!!! That one notification told me everything I needed to know about why pricing is the game inside the game. It doesn't matter how many books you sell if the margin is pennies. You're just staying busy. When I started publishing again in February this year I made myself one rule before I created anything. If I can't make $4 or $5 per sale, it's not worth my time to build it. That one decision shifted everything. I stopped looking at low price point niches entirely and started focusing on books priced at $11.99, $12.99 and above. Same effort to create. Completely different return. 10 book sales a day = $50 instead of $1.60 Most new KDP creators focus on getting a book live. That's important. But before you pick your niche, check the price point of what's already selling in it. $0.16 is a hard way to learn that lesson. You don't have to. Have you checked your royalties lately and felt that gut punch? Tell me what you saw. 👇

My goal is 100 books published on Amazon by the end of 2026. Will I hit it? Honestly, no idea. Here's where I'm at right now: 📚 February — 14 books 📚 March — 6 books 📚 April — 6 books 📚 May — 4 books and counting 30 books in about 11 weeks. I need roughly 9 a month from here to get to 100 by December. Some months will be slower. Some months I'll figure something out and move faster. That's kind of the whole point. I'm not chasing 100 because the number matters. I'm chasing it because of what happens along the way. Every book teaches me something the last one didn't. What sells. What doesn't. What took too long. What I can do faster next time. 🔄 Get it live. Do it again. Make it better. That's the whole game. I'll post the numbers every month so you can watch it happen in real time. The good months and the kinda shitty ones. Not every book I publish will sell. That's not the goal. The goal is to learn fast enough that enough of them do. 🤔 Would you still publish knowing some won't work if you knew it would help you in the long run?

I make books people are already looking for. That distinction took me 20 years to fully understand, and Etsy taught it to me. I spent two decades selling on Etsy. Physical products, digital products, through every algorithm change and trend cycle you can imagine. And the single biggest lesson? 👉 The market tells you what it wants. Your job is to listen. I stopped making things I thought were cute or clever a long time ago. I started researching demand first, then building to meet it. That shift changed everything. Now I'm bringing that exact approach to KDP. Every niche I choose, I've validated. Every book I publish, there's already a buyer looking for it on Amazon. I'm not creating demand. I'm showing up where demand already exists. Here's what I want you to consider though. You probably have more to bring to this than you realize. 👩‍🏫 If you're a teacher, you know exactly what kids struggle with and what parents are desperately searching for. That's not just experience. That's a book series. 🏋️‍♀️ If you've spent years in fitness, you know the questions beginners ask over and over. Answer them in a journal or a log book and you've got a product. 🧍‍♀️ If you've raised kids, managed a home, navigated a health journey, or built anything from scratch, you have knowledge that someone else is typing into Amazon right now looking for help with. Most KDP creators start by asking "what can I make?" The better question is "what do I already know that people are searching for?" You might be sitting on your niche already.