The test shows no activity of non-present members at all, so we will speed-up the process. This is the list of members, who joined us a long ago and was not active: @Jason French @Thomas Bika @Alex Webster @Canace Roe @Lily Limusanno @Annika Schneider @Chris Nheric @Younes Lm @Kimberly Matthews @Muhammad Amir @Lewis Mwangi @Kia Glover @Aaron Mitchell @Patrick Tcherbi-narteh @Davide G @Houssam Baidari @Blue One @Marib Butt @El hadj Hlifi @JackieBoy Pod @Aimae Jamaybay @Dhanush Thiru @Abdul Shuk @Sergi Fuentes @Juan Tarallo @Petra Modrusan @Carmela Walker @Bp Hopes @Yekeen Quyum @Muhammad Shayan @Jared R. Henderson @Asad Ullah @Luke G @Anchitha Sidharth @Moe Income @Thiru Archimedes @Heather Padilla @Roshana Sultan @Carol Davis @Alexandra Kozma @Kessa Delaney @Mukiza Jean francois regis @Ana Kat @Mouna Az @Akhlesh Bhadauria @Nikki. Ai @Philip Allen @Amanda Armstrong @Timothy Tim @Martin Bender @Ghost Writer @Sabri Öner @Rachid Bachlil @Sible Philip @Daniel Albert @Mohamed El Amrani @Fabi Gala @Dafresh Y @Faiq Younas @Benard Rick @Sebastian A @Zelinah Writz @Lisa Schmitt @David Godwin @Mary Namwinga @Jackson Hose @Ayoub El koubaa @Moula Mustapha @Anastasya Lewis @Alan Dure @Joel Gonzalez @Carter Aldrin @Miguel Angel Risueño Espinosa @Jessica Boulton @Robin Thomas @Mary Stephanie @Nbl Bjd @Luckycent Coloring @William Caraway @Tim D @Michael Goffinet @Baba Loamna @Pallavi Chauhan @Mandy Holford @Beyza Sarı @Komalpreet Kaur @Seeker Livelihood @Yahiia Ks @Paul Bud @Roberto Silva @Stella Writer @Soham M @Daniel Daniel @Mark Evans @Mehdi M @Amelia Haswell @Jenia Walker @Joe Hinchliffe @Kenneth Dieryck @Janice P @Grace Grace @Volkan Kirciltepeli @Mohd Izmil @Silvia B @Oti Letsrock @Usman Arshad @Keith Snow @Claudia Fors Bermudez @Lin Pacific @Muhammad Asad @M M @Khalid Khan @Nicole Flores @Mari Smith @Ava Xavier @Abi O. @Youssef Al moulat @Boris Kaplan @Makhmud Akhmedov @Ant Mr @Sam Arbi @Jewel Takang @Anne-Marie Delport @Melisa Yermal @Asenath Lawton @Neta Me @Shahana Kapadia @Sheniza Moonsammy @Lkhroq Diapers @Struggling Panda @Sarah Barry @Mohamed Dengyende @Marichu Ag

I want to share the process behind one of my recent KDP projects, not just the finished design. The project was a retirement activity book for women, and the interesting part wasn't simply creating the pages. It was making sure the content, formatting, metadata, positioning, and final presentation all worked together. Here are the lessons I took from it. Lesson 1: Format for the actual reader For a senior activity book, readability had to come first. That affected: - Font selection - Font size - Puzzle grid size - Spacing - Contrast - Instructions - Page hierarchy The goal wasn't to make the pages look “fancy.” It was to make them comfortable to use. For this project, we used Plus Jakarta Sans throughout the interior and built the layouts around clear, readable typography. Lesson 2: Don't let the cover and interior tell different stories The cover positioned the book around: Joy + Retirement + Large Print + Activities So the interior needed to support that promise. The same visual language was carried through the pages instead of creating a completely different experience once the reader opened the book. Lesson 3: Competitor research should inform—not dictate—the product I researched competing retirement activity books to understand: - Categories - Keywords - Pricing - Activities - Page counts - Positioning But I didn't simply copy what they were doing. For example, we found competitors with more pages. Instead of rushing to add content just to match them, we focused first on getting the existing product properly built and approved. Lesson 4: Metadata needs to reflect the actual book We researched the seven backend keyword fields and categories using competitor research and Helium 10. But relevance remained the filter. One category we considered didn't make sense because the book didn't contain coloring pages. So we changed direction. Research can show you an opportunity. The product still has to qualify for it. Lesson 5: Don't waste keyword fields repeating the same audience

“Are you the published author too?” or “Where are you in your publishing journey?” - how many times have we faced such comments and similar AI-generated posts and comments in publishers’ communities? But from a community owner’s point of view, this is the price for the ability to grow a community big. At least, I thought so. But today I understood clearly that I had drifted a long way from the point I had in mind when I launched the Guild. The idea was to have people around who filtered out the noise and actively shared a signal. And I know there are not so many such people. So, it's time to make the Guild small but signal-dense. I will start with myself and share more of my findings and questions that I want answers to. If you feel you're getting value from the Guild, please do the same - let's help each other grow. You need not solve major problems of the Universe to be helpful; sometimes a simple question can lead to a chain reaction that creates a totally new perspective. Ask, give feedback, share your wins and issues. Be present. And this is not just a change in philosophy. I am going to act on it. Members who remain inactive will be publicly notified that they are scheduled to leave the Guild. They will have an opportunity to become active, and those who continue to remain inactive will be removed.

@Thomas Bika @Alexandra L @Dhanisha Reddy @Shruti Mishra @Kimberly Matthews @Majid Kamil @Kim Sarsons @Tim D @Haley F @Hyun Lee As I wrote yesterday, we are making the Guild more interwoven, so we are starting with people we have not yet heard from. You all joined a long time ago, and we still have no idea what you are working on. I would like to know. What are you publishing right now? What is not working? Or ask something you have been wondering about for a while. A simple question is often the most useful thing anyone posts here. A comment under this post is enough. One line. If you do want to participate, it's OK. It just means that the Guild is not what you need at the moment, and you will leave the community. But the door stays open if that changes.

I uploaded my book and book cover. Where can I look for reviews? And where can I see other members' books?