Happening at 10am PST / 1pm EST If you’re starting from zero… or stuck trying to grow your list, this session will give you a clear path forward. No paid ads. No guesswork. ​Join the session here: https://kit.com/events/workshop/booklaunchers-apr26

Communities don't just happen—they are built by the people who participate in them. Thank you for your contributions this month; you’ve helped us grow into something truly wonderful. A special shout-out to @Rob Cole and our other Top 10 participants for creating value with your comments, posts, and shares! THANK YOU!!! To celebrate each of you and show our appreciation, we are going to send you an email with our hot off the presses LLM discoverability infographic to help you and your book be found in the LLMs (ok, it's so hot off the press, it's still getting final design elements put on it ... 😅). @Angela Jones will email it to you once @Sarah Bean has the final copy from the designer (probably by Monday). THANK YOU AGAIN!!

We covered the growing number of ghost categories on Amazon, the additional million more books that were published in 2025 over 2024, the changing state of Amazon ads and more! There is a lot of things to think about as an author and we fired through a lot of topics in today's state of publishing. If you missed this live ... the replay is below. Check the Calendar tab to put the April State of Publishing update on your calendar so you can join us live. Links we mentioned: www.booklaunchers.com/rocket www.booklaunchers.com/publishdrive www.booklaunchers.com/elevenlabs https://publishdrive.com/publishdrives-market-intelligence-report-2026 https://advertising.amazon.com https://press.barnesandnoble.com https://publishdrive.com/how-to-sell-ebooks.html Plus, here is the playlist for my recording of the audiobook version of Self-Promote and Succeed https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6B5bRioc1xBijZsvgKUJYyuR8RKjylA

Join Sarah Bean for a special Q&A with Karlyn Ankrom, founder of Oh Snap! Social. Karlyn was a speaker at Author Empire Workshop and you'll get a sneak peek at her talk Post-Publication Presence: How to Stay Visible Without Burning Out. Get the inside scoop on how to keep social media momentum going for your launch and beyond. Livestream is at our normal time - 2 p.m. Pacific / 5 p.m. Eastern. Hope to see a bunch of you there!

If anyone thinks Skool notifications are a bit much for your inbox, check out this video showing you how to update your preferences. I recommend doing this so you can pay attention to the email notifications you actually want to see and possibly clean up your inbox a bit because Skool LOVES sending emails 🫠 I added this to the "start here" module as well for easy access.