Amazon & KDPSeptember 29, 2026
Traditional publishing takes 12 to 18 months, pays less and takes control away from you. A ghostwriter who publishes through IngramSpark explains when each route fits a ghostwritten book and how to vet a hybrid publisher.
Amazon & KDPSeptember 29, 2026
Companies posing as Amazon publishing services cold-call authors and sell packages Amazon never offered. How the scam works, how to check a ghostwriting company before you pay, and what to do if you already did.
AISeptember 26, 2026
A mother asked a self-publishing group how to publish the bedtime story she wrote for her daughter with AI illustrations. The thread called her gross, a thief and a bad writer, and buried the answers she needed.
Amazon & KDPJune 5, 2026
I had fallen into the classic trap every new author falls into. I thought writing the book was the hard part. Wrong.
Amazon & KDPFebruary 14, 2026
Readers decide in a fraction of a second, scanning covers on Amazon or shelves in a store. Get yours wrong and you lose them before they read a word. Here is what actually makes a cover work, which formats you…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 14, 2026
Clients usually know they want a book and have barely thought about how it reaches readers, but that choice decides control, speed, money, and whether the book does its job. Three paths are worth weighing. Here is traditional, self-publishing, and…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
The platform you choose is not a small decision; it sets your distribution, your royalty rate, your formats, and how much control you keep. Pick wrong and you cap the book's reach before anyone reads a page. Here is what…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
Once a month someone asks me how to hit the New York Times list, and I tell them the truth they do not want to hear: it barely matters. The lists are corrupt and largely irrelevant to what a book…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
Publishing the book is not the finish line, it is the starting line. A book sitting on Amazon doing nothing is a wasted asset. Here are 15 concrete ways my most successful clients put their books to work, and what…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
The moment you publish, your book is global, Amazon hits a dozen marketplaces, ebooks land instantly, print-on-demand ships worldwide, and yet most authors quietly cap their own reach with avoidable mistakes. Having ghostwritten for clients across six countries, I have…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
Most authors picture readers in their own country and stop there, which is thinking far too small. An English book can reach every English-speaking market, and with translation, every market on earth, and the infrastructure has never been more accessible.…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 11, 2026
Most book marketing advice comes from people who sell marketing courses, not people who have sold books. Build a list, run ads, get on BookBub: it sounds reasonable and skips the part that matters. After 113+ books, here is what…
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