Okay so here’s the deal with KDP covers – I literally just finished uploading three new notebooks last night and realized my cover approach has completely changed from when I started seven years ago. The Size Thing Nobody Gets Right Your cover needs to be 2560 x 1600 pixels minimum for Amazon. But here’s what […]
Okay so I’ve been deep in the Amazon KDP trenches since like 2017 and honestly the platform has changed SO much in just the past year that I had to completely rethink how I approach digital publishing. Let me just dump everything that’s actually working right now because the old playbooks are basically useless at […]
Okay so the colouring book market on KDP is honestly still pretty solid but it’s way different than it was like 3-4 years ago. I was just looking at my sales dashboard yesterday while my cat was walking across my keyboard and I noticed something interesting about seasonal patterns that I’ll get to in a […]
Okay so I just pulled the 2026 data from my dashboard last week and the category shifts are kinda wild compared to what was working even six months ago. Let me break down what’s actually selling because everyone keeps asking me about this. The Big Picture Nobody’s Talking About First thing – and this is […]
Okay so I just uploaded three new planners last week and two of them are already ranking on page one for their keywords, which is kinda wild because the competition looked brutal at first glance. Here’s the thing about low content books on KDP – everyone thinks it’s saturated but they’re looking at the wrong […]
Okay so I just tested like 15 new niches last month and here’s what’s actually working in 2026, not the stuff everyone keeps repeating from 2022. Password Logbooks But Make Them Specific Everyone thinks password books are saturated and yeah the generic ones are, but here’s the thing – niche them down to specific professions […]
Okay so I just pulled my Q4 sales reports last week and here’s what’s actually selling right now versus what everyone thinks is trending on KDP. The puzzle book wave isn’t dead but it’s definitely morphing into something else and you gotta pay attention to the sub-niches within sub-niches now. Where the Money Actually Is […]
Okay so here’s what’s actually working in 2026 I just pulled my sales data from last month and honestly the niches that are crushing it right now are kinda different from what everyone’s been saying. Like, everyone’s still talking about planners and journals but the market’s so saturated unless you’ve got a really specific angle […]
Okay so here’s the deal with setting up your Facebook author page – I literally just rebuilt mine last month after my cat knocked coffee all over my keyboard and I had to redo like half my social strategy anyway, so this is fresh. The Cover Photo Thing Everyone Screws Up Your cover photo needs […]
Okay so I just redesigned my author page background last week and honestly the whole process is way easier than people make it out to be, but there’s like… specific dimensions you gotta get right or Facebook just crops everything weird. The main thing is Facebook cover photos are 820 pixels wide by 312 pixels […]