KDP Cuts Royalties and Other Book Publishing News and Updates

All right. Hello and happy Tuesday. All right, so today, let's see, what are we talking about? Today we're talking about book publishing news. And I'm sure anybody who's already publishing on Amazon already paid attention, but Amazon may have just taken another bite out of your royalty check and of course, AI quietly reshaping how you're publishing, promoting and profiting from books. And we've got more news for you on that. And something I've been diving deeper into lately is something called liquid content, something we've already talked about, but now we've got a cool name for it. So I'm kind of excited about that. So we're going to talk about liquid content today. So welcome to today's livestream. And if you're new here, we. Well, I'm Julie the book broad from Book Launchers. And of course Book Launchers is your one stop shop for everything nonfiction, writing, publishing and promoting your books. And if it's your first live stream, well, in case you haven't already figured out from Darla and Kevin, you say hello. And then you don't know this yet, but you get entered to win some fabulous prizes. And Jeremiah has just said hello as well. Hello. And so everybody who says hello when they're live, we enter you into some random draws. And then as well, we also have draws for every Tuesday and Friday when a video comes out. If you are one of the folks that comments on the day a video is released, you also get entered to win. So it's Prizapalooza and then Angela, who you can't see, but I can see her. She's hiding behind the scenes, waiting for the moment where I send her off on a link hunt or, or a prize hunt or. She's collecting your questions in the comment area. So if you have questions, go ahead and type them in the comments. If I see them, sometimes I just stop what I'm doing and I answer them. But Angela collects them all for you and at the end we will do your Q and A. So we also have Matilda, Hitesh, Veo, eto, hopefully hair lation and other violations. I like that. That's great coming from Canada, which is always love, my fellow Canadians. Okay, so lots to cover today. We'll dive right in and. And Dorothea's here too.

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Great to see you here. Okay, so. So as I said, let's start with kdp. Most of you who are already publishing on Amazon probably already know this, but they did make the announcement that royalty rates for books under $9.99 and this is for print books. They will drop what you get paid from 60% to 50%. And this is starting June 10th. So it's just around the corner now, really for the average nonfiction author. I don't see this as being something, sorry, there's a pop up here. I'm just going to get rid of it. I don't see this affecting you too much. What I think, who I think is going to affect is if you had a cookbook. Not a cookbook, a coloring book, a workbook, or kind of more of a lead magnet style book. So a shorter read that you were pricing under $9.99, this is going to impact you. And there's a couple things if this is going to impact you. So if you have a print book on Amazon and It's priced at $9.99 or less, then, you know, here's your choices. Leave it and just make less money per book sold or raise your price. Now, generally, I would say raise your price because I think most categories, again, we're talking nonfiction books here. Most categories, you're going to see your print books, they're priced $12.99 to $14.99 or even higher, again, depending on your category. So if you're in a category where the average book is priced at, say $16.99 and you're at 799, you might think your book is now the obvious choice because it's so much cheaper, when in fact, people probably look at it and go, oh, it's cheap, so it must be cheap, you know, so you probably are better off to raise your price anyways. But, you know, that's just something. Those are kind of the two choices. Leave it, you know, but do it strategically. Don't do it because you're lazy or you forget about the date. You know, be active in your book business. But the other choice, of course, is to raise your price. Now, the other thing they've done is not a price increase. It is a price decrease on color. On color books. This could be a good thing because I know one thing our authors struggle with is we have some authors who want color pages in their book. And after they do the math, they either decide not to or they go, oh, well, I really need this book to be in color. So I'm going to do offset instead of print on demand, which means they order a bigger bulk of orders. And then they have to set themselves up to sell them on Amazon, not through print on demand. So it's a lot more work. It's a bigger pain in the butt and they have to upfront the costs. But sometimes color printing is just so important that that is what they need to do. However, many authors just choose to price their color printed book and not make very much money at all. So hopefully the price decrease on color printed pages will make it more affordable or appealing for not only the, the authors but also the buyers that would be buying and reading the book. So it's not a huge change and I think it's not, you know, if this is what Amazon needs to do to boost their profits without impacting everyone, I think it's a good choice. I'm, I'm okay with it. But again, I really want authors just to be aware of it and make conscious choice for their book business. Don't just passively let this change go by and not do anything about it. So that's my main message in this. Now let's see, I saw a few more people. Ron Neitzel's in the house. Hello. So good to see you. And Eric is here. Great to have you here. And it's that Ron said, I'm back to work making the world green. That's fantastic. Of course, if you don't know, Ron is one of our book launchers OG authors. His book the Green wizard came out many years ago now. But always a delight to see our authors back in the house. So great, great to hear from you. Okay, so carrying on, I'm going to do a prize after this, after this section. So if you haven't said hello yet, that's your chance. But I want to talk about, did you guys hear about the AI generated summer reading list? And actually I didn't write down, I didn't make a note of what newspapers this appeared in, but I think it was like the Chicago Sun Times maybe, or Philadelphia Inquirer, I can't remember, but. Or maybe it was both, I don't remember. But what happened? I do remember and that is the author of this article used AI to generate her summer reading list and didn't check it. And AI made up some books. So there was a book by Andy Weir, the Last Algorithm. It doesn't exist, but it's on our summer reading list. The Tidewater Dreams, I think. I don't remember who that was by, but it was made up. So the, the writer obviously faced some heat and the newspapers since removed their content and are reviewing their editorial processes. So you know, it's funny that this happened because there was a day where every article that was published in a newspaper went through fact checking and all the sources had to be verified and so on. But you know, there's been so many cutbacks in the newspaper world. But why, I think why I highlight this isn't just because it's kind of funny. It's because it is so easy for this to happen. And I think it's, it's a really good wake up call for every author who has been using any sort of AI tool to generate their content. Because this happens all the time. And what you'll find is that, oh, there's something. And what you'll find is that you end up. It sounds real, right? Like this, this piece by Andy Weir, which as a side note, I heard somebody saying that he's like, wow, there's so much demand for this book. Perhaps I should write one. Maybe that should be my next book. So it may end up working out in, in some author's favor. But what can happen is it sounds so real and if you don't not only read it, but double check what it is, then you could end up with some sort of embarrassing situation of your own. So I think it's really, really important to make sure you're producing, especially if you're writing it for your book, you're producing that content and your, you can use AI tools for all kinds of pieces of the process, but if you are using it in any sort of generation, you know, triple check what's going on because a lot of it could be made up and then I guess we can all smile. If Andy Weir actually does come out with a new book called, called the, the Last Algorithm, that would be kind of funny, but I did, I did find that amusing, but I also think it's a great wake up, wake up call slash reminder for all of us. And you know, I use ChatGPT a lot for my brainstorming and my ideation and, and one of the things, you know, sometimes when I'm using it to prep some of my YouTube video scripts and I don't. My scripts like my structure of my, of my video. Sometimes it'll put something on there. I'm like, wow, that's really cool. Like what's your source for that? And I'll go, oh, I'm sorry, you're right. We should create something true. I'm like, oh great, okay, let's, let's go back to the drawing board and I'll give you the points and you can help me figure out what's an engaging structure for this video. And if I've missed anything in that case, it becomes a really good thought partner for me. But anyways, I thought that was amusing. And one other piece I'll mention is just the bookbub. And Angela does have the link for this, so she can drop the link in there. BookBub did a survey of authors and their use of AI recently. I think they surveyed like 1200 authors, and only 45% are using generative AI tools, which I thought was low. So I'm kind of curious, and we don't have a ton of people here today, but maybe in the replay, when the other hundreds of you are watching, I'm curious, and maybe this is a fact that people don't want to admit that they're using it, or maybe it just really is less than half are using them in some capacity. I'm not asking if you're using it to write anything, but if you're using it in anything related to your author business. And only 45% said they were. And so I'm curious. So those watching live today, I suspect a lot of you are, partly because you're here and I talk about it all the time. But I am curious if you are using it in any capacity besides Grammarly. I don't mean are you using Grammarly to check your work? I mean, are you logging into tools like Descript or chatgpt or Claude, or do you use Perplexity or Groq or any of those tools? I'm curious. So, you know, no, no judgment. This is a safe space. But I am curious. So please, please share in the comments. And if you're watching the replay, share in the comments as well. Because I did think this was light, but maybe that's just me because I've been using it. My team has been using it for so many years now. And, you know, we just had AI Tuesday. So we have somebody AI Tuesday in our company. Somebody teaches everybody else either how they're using it or a new tool. And it's really fascinating to see the different applications and the different thought process into it and also the different jobs in our company, like how our cover designer is using it and approaching it versus how. Today we had a presentation from somebody on our team who's a writing coach and a writer and how he uses it for, you know, capturing the author's voice or could use it to capture an author's voice. He's not necessarily using it with our clients, but he was showing an example of how, how he has played with it and done it. So I think that's, you know, for Me, it's an everyday thing. So 45% seem light. They said 30% use AI occasionally while 60% of that 45% are using it frequently. That makes sense to me. I think, you know, a lot of people aren't going to have it integrated into their everyday existence like I have. So 60% sounds right to me for using it frequently. Now of Those not using it, 84% site ethical concerns as the reason which I also thought was interesting and I mean there's definitely some foundation for that but. But a lot of the tools are not, you know, they've been trained but you know, there's different methods that have been used to train the data and so forth. So I get the ethical concerns. But that was an interesting reason versus not wanting to learn the new tech or not understanding it or some of these other reasons. So yeah, it was just an interesting study. So that study I think Angela already put in the comments if you want to check out the study by Bookbub, the tasks that people were using it for research which you know to me is a no brainer. Of course the challenges mentioned if you are using something like chatgpt, even Perplexity, which is really geared towards giving you resources and sources. I find that it does make stuff up from time to time too. So you're always checking things but you know, fantastic way to organize your research and dive deeper into things that you wouldn't have considered otherwise. Marketing is huge and this is somewhere we've leaned into heavily and we have our own software and our own summit coming up. So I've got an announcement for everyone here if you haven't already seen the video I posted on Sunday for our Author Launch Kit, our summit that we're using to launch our Author Launch Kit, the future of Book Marketing Summit, which is happening June 19th to 21st. But yeah, we're leaning heavily into, you know, all things AI for marketing and of course outlining and editing. I had a video that I posted is it last week? I think it was last week. But Angela, if you can find it on how to write your best selling book with AI it talks all about different tools and I take you through not just, you know, one. I use multiple tools to show you how to create an outline for a book in you know, 30 minutes or less. So and it's a really powerful outline and different processes. So that would be a great video to post and I'll put it in the comments below if you're. Or in the description below if you're watching after all right. Let's do some prizes. And then I want to see. I want to spend a little bit of time on this Liquid Content piece because I thought that this was fascinating when I heard this term. And as I've dove into it, you know, I've really had fun kind of learning it and. And realizing that it's something I've been talking about without knowing that it had a name, a cool name like Liquid Content. All right, so let's do some prizes. Let's see. What did Bart say? Agents using query tracker are forcing revelation of use of AI in any capacity. So it's discouraging. Agents using query tracker. I don't know what query tracker is. I think that's part of why I don't quite understand that statement, but. Okay, let's see. Okay, sorry, I'm trying to share my screen here. Let's first do the Tuesday and Friday to give everybody watching another minute to comment. I have way too many screens open. Oh, my gosh. Okay. I should have shut some screens before find. Okay, hold on. I'm gonna have to close some screens so I can find the screen with the. With what we need here. So, Angela, do you want to come in and I don't know if there's any questions you can answer or anything you can do for a sec while I clean up my. All the things that I have open.

Yeah, sure. So one of the things I can do is I can talk about what the prizes are since she's about to be giving them away. So we still have plen. Plenty of books to give away. I won't go over all the names of them just for time's sake, but if you're interested in one of the books, I have some of our author's books, some really fun ones. I can send you the list of what we have. Of course, we also have self publish and succeed, Self promote and succeed. We've got Rise of the Reader by Nick Hutchison, another one of the authors we have worked with. I have a few more of Dale Roberts books, the first one of his series of six. And then additionally, I do have some swag that is our NoboringBooks mug as well as our oh so Soft journal. So lots of swag to choose from still. And like I said, if you are interested in the books you can. That are aside from Julie's books, let me know. You can email in and I can let you know what I have on hand. Looky there. Perfect timing.

Thank you. That was beautiful. Thank you. And so what I did today, I did Something different. I loaded it into our names into ChatGPT. So everybody who commented on the Tuesday and Friday for the last two weeks when new videos came out, I loaded it all in here and I asked it to do something fun in a book themed approach for the name. So let's see. It's taking a moment, but I'm curious to see what it's going to come up with. Instead of our random name picker that has so many ads all around it, I'm going to create an embedded name picker of our own. And so I'm going to play with ChatGPT over the next little bit and find a way to do this so that we can have something that's our own theme that we embed in our site so that when we do our author launch kit summit, we're going to have some really fun things. But this is like a slow reveal, isn't it? It's like the drum roll is playing and somebody's name is getting put into an image and it's slowly being revealed little bit by bit. Oh, this is fun. All right, so we'll see. And then we have to do this again because we always do. 2. Yeah, I'm going to make it. I'm going to make it my own GPT, Eric. That's exactly what I'm planning to do. And then I'm going to embed it in a page that is our page for this. And so that's what I've been doing. I've been having fun with this, but you guys are the first to see it. So it says turning the page and to reveal H. Garrick, I would assume as our first winner. And it says this author's chapter is about to change everything. So congratulations. And what you need to do to claim your Prize is email angelaeamooklaunchers.com and let her know which prize that she just kindly explained for you is your choice and your mailing address so that she can send it to you. All right, so we're going to do that again. And it's already programmed to remove it. And, and okay, let's go for the next one. Okay, so another slow reveal is coming up and while it's doing that, I'll see, I'll see what else you guys are talking about once I get the results. I want, I want, I ask now make this into my own GPT. Exactly. And that was pretty fun. So you guys tell me if that's what you want to see as our future prizes or if you have other ideas. I think that's great. And then I saw a question. Kevin said, should we change our prompt to tell it? Give me X, Y, Z, but do not make anything up. Yes, that helps, but it's not always 100% because it will still make things up. So, asking for sources, I think, oops, did I open up the wrong. Oh, oopsies. Let's go back over there. It's still revealing. Yeah, it's asking for sources also helps provide the sources for what you've asked. But here's the thing. I was using it. So I was prepping my video for Friday. The Findaway Voices, the news on Findaway Voices by Spotify Going Away, which, you know, Angela, if you want to drop that in here, if anybody's using Findaway Voices, you'll want to pay close attention. You've got till August. But what I found was I was trying to get it to review the terms and conditions for me and it still made things up. And I was reading through it, it's summary and its highlights, and I was like, can you point to the exact place in the terms and Conditions where it says that? And it was like, oh, I'm sorry, I. I didn't, I can't remember its exact words, but it was basically, oh, I didn't extract it from the terms and conditions. I pulled it from something else. And what it was doing was it had pulled from. It wasn't totally made up, it had pulled it from the history. So if you remember the drama with Findaway Voices when they, when they turned that terms and Conditions out and they had that clause in there that basically gave them all the rights, it was sourcing that. So it wasn't making it up. But this is not true, right? This is not true of the Findaway Voices by Spotify, actually, which was the authors by Spotify or Spotify by others, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't true of this, so it wasn't making it up because this did happen. And this is something that was under Findaway Voices by Spotify at some point in history. However, it was not true of today. So you've got to be careful because when I was reading this, I was like, no, this is not right. Like, this is not the terms and conditions. So I'm like, show me where it is in the current terms and conditions. And it said, no, oh, sorry, it's not there. So that prompt does not solve the problem, Kevin. It can help, but it does not solve the problem. Okay, so I can't read this name picker. You guys, I think it's. It's gotten too creative with us here, and I. And it also seems to be split between two. Is that how you'd interpret that, Angela?

Yeah, it has not chosen for you. It's making you decide.

So it looks like we'll call it a tie between. I can't even make this bigger. But Dolores, Dolores, Dolores. To. Oh, gosh.

And send it to me and I'll.

Look at it and. Well, what if it made names up? Now that we're talking about all this fictitious stuff, it could be listening to me. I mean, the other ones look real, right? Like Kevin Hall. The opposite is true. Like, those are real ones, so. And Kevin Hall's in there twice. Look at you. Way to go, Kevin. But anyways, yes, I'll download it and send it to Angela. And if you're watching this and you see your name is orange or blue over here in this random thing, what I'll do is I'll send it to you. Let's see. I'm going to send it to you and actually copy link. Let's see if it'll. If I can just share it with everybody here. Wonder what will happen. Let's see what happens. You guys ready for an adventure? We don't know what this is going to be. Oh, conversations are inaccessible or not found. I just pasted it in a different browser and it wouldn't give it to me. Okay, I will try and send it to you, Angela, and maybe you can see it, download it from there. Well, that was fun. Okay, so. Oh, it says, oh, Eric, save the image and then ask GPT to read it for you. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, I'm gonna ask it again. Who is the actual winner? That was fun. So that one is not going to be my GPT because that did not help me at all. So it's. Okay, so here's the funny part. It said the winner was Heath Eero, 2263. Which wasn't even. I'm just going to share my screen so you guys know I'm not making this up here. See? So then it gives me this name, which wasn't even one of those two. Oh, but it did say it below. So that's the thing. Okay, so it said it below and it just gave me a cool picture. I guess that's what it did. All right, there we go. So this is the winner. It's either Heathero 2263 or Heath Thero or Heath Hero 2263. I'm not sure which one is true, but what is true is you're the winner. So email angelaeamooklaunchers.com and let her know the prize and the mailing address that you would like it sent to. That was fun. Okay. There. And. And I think that was. That was an adventure. Eric, thank you for trying to translate it and figure it all for. For me, but it was. The answer was there right below. I was just looking at the image. All right, so back to this thing. So liquid content. This is this word that I've heard a couple times, and then it was in Jane Friedman's the bottom. The bottom line. I can't remember what her new. She replaced the hot sheet with something, I think she calls it the bottom line. And there was just a little paragraph, mention of it, talking about how AI is enabling liquid content. And I thought, oh, this is cool, this word, liquid content. I'd seen it once before and. And then she had it. So it's exactly what it sounds like. It's kind of a format, free content. So it's fluid, right? It can be text, it can be video, audio, infographic, podcast, simulation. And it's really a cool kind of way to think about your book because your book becomes the foundation for this liquid content, right? So you've worked hard to create all your ideas, share your stories, come up with your concepts, and now you can liquidize. Liquidize, not liquidate. That's not the right word. Liquify. That's the word we're looking for. Liquefy your content and share it massively. And. And I think that that was a cool kind of way to talk about how we've always talked about repurposing, right, Using your content and then repurposing it. And the article, which Angela has, and she'll drop it in there, I think. I can't remember what format it was in, but it was really cool because it talked about how the medium reshapes the message. So it talked about TikTok's dynamic use of dynamic captions and how it didn't just make videos more accessible, it. It changed how people watch videos, because a lot of us will be watching videos in public and not want the sound on. So now with the captions, you can have silent public viewing and you can view these videos. TikTok, you know, now the shorts on YouTube or the reels or stories in Instagram, you have captions, right? You're rarely going to have a video that doesn't have captions because, you know, people aren't going to engage with it as much Another way to look at it is Spotify's approach to audiobooks, which they're treating them more like music, not books, which means you can listen to a chapter, right? So just like an album, you don't have to listen to all the songs. You listen to your favorite song or the most popular song. Spotify is changing how people consume audiobooks slowly but surely in that they'll direct you immediately to a chapter on the topic. It also makes it easier for listeners to sample and engage with authors they may not have checked out otherwise. So this is why I've been saying, like, niche content, you know, not having the big name. These kind of changes are for all of us who aren't James Clear. They're for all of us that aren't famous and don't have that name. That's going to show up when somebody searches for, you know, leadership Book. And, you know, the top three famous people's books show up, right? This is how your niche topic is going to be found. And it's a powerful kind of perspective and way to look at this. And the way your book is going to be consumed is changing based on where it's being consumed. And it's important to really think about that and really focus again, not only on the reader and what they. What's in it for them when they read your book, but also how the book is going to be consumed by that reader. Because somebody, say, downloading my or listening to my content on, on Spotify is acting different than somebody reading my book on Kindle. So it's really going to be a different experience. And I think I talked about this before, but I had a call with somebody who is producing. They have created this audiobook platform and I think it's going to be available next month or in July, where your book essentially becomes interactive. And it's just fascinating to see how this is really the future of books and to think about this more and more as you create and write your book is they make it. They make it. It's an audiobook and they make it interactive. So there's actually visuals. So I think you can, you can see the book, see the words on the page while you're hearing it, but also you can talk to it. And so you can say, wait, repeat that last sentence. Wait. Cut that paragraph out and put it in my notes. Okay, that was good. I want you to replay that more slowly to me and then take your, take the best quote from that and put it at the end. You know, that kind of thing. And so it allows the reader, slash, listener to engage with that material, then you take that a step further, and this isn't what this company is doing yet, but you take that a step further, and I imagine it's right around the corner, because anybody I know, I know Eric's. Eric's here. I think he's seen the bot. Anyways, Julie, the book bot is live inside of our Author Business Accelerator and inside of our new software, inside of Author Launch Kit. And. And she is very, very smart. She's been trained on over a thousand videos. So it's like 800 and some hours of content, I think, when you add it all up, plus, plus books and audiobooks and all those things. So she knows an awful lot about writing, publishing, and selling nonfiction books. So now imagine if you were to engage with just the book content, but you, you know, you could have a little bit of extra built in there. And so then you can pause and you can go, wait a minute, I don't understand this concept. Can you explain it to me? And that there's a bot behind this that's been trained further on this material. You know, you can start to see how the applications are. Are going to be really, really fascinating, but also how this liquid content is something to keep in mind because readers are not just going to sit there and statically turn pages and read books for that much longer. I do believe the physical book is going to be around for a lot longer than that. But I think this desire to engage more fluidly with the content is, is here and the technology is here. And so it's just a matter of putting it all together, but also just to think about that medium that your book will be consumed in and how it's going to reshape how that reader is experiencing your content. So, and then also, you know, other things that can be done with your content, you know, could be have a narrated executive summary. You know, of course, podcasts, you could turn it into podcasts. Notebook LLM already does a beautiful job of this. You know, it creates infographics, it can create summary sheets, all of these kind of things. So that's liquid content at work. And I think it's fascinating to kind of think about not just as repurposing, but thinking about it as liquid content, because the medium is going to shape it. Kind of like, you know, when you put water in a cup, it takes the shape of that cup. If you put it in a little dish, it's going to take the shape of that dish. So I love this liquid content. I'm definitely going to be talking about this more because it really is, I think, a great way to think about this and think about, you know, the visibility, more formats. There's more ways to be discovered, the versatility. You can reach video people who normally only consume video content, or only consume podcasts, or only consume written. You know, there's, you're going to be able to reach your reader, and I say reader very loosely, wherever they are and whatever format they like to consume. And then, and this is what I've been talking about for a long time, is your book becomes 12 months of content, right? You've got a whole year of content. There's no excuses. So I think that that's kind of exciting. And then of course, not only does that give you more impact, but it gives you more income opportunities because you've got more entry points into your business funnel. And not everyone starts with a paperback. So this is great news. And not everyone's going to have a whole book that they want to consume in order to learn more. But by learning that one thing you teach, they may want to hire you or have you speak or take your course as a result of that. So it's kind of cool. And if you are looking for more ideas for turning your book into all of these content pieces and promoting yourself, that is what we're talking about at the Future of Book Marketing Summit, which is happening June 19th, 20th and 21st. You can get yourself registered right now. I heard from somebody, Kitty, today actually, that the Apple link wasn't working to add it to your Apple calendar, but we're getting all of that organized and we'll be sending you emails to also add it to your calendar. But you can get registered right now and it will be happening from 9am to 1pm Pacific Standard Time on the 19th, 20th and 21st. And we've got some really, really great prizes that you have to be there live to get a chance to win. So. All right, so. And Angela just dropped it in there. So now I'm ready for some questions and we'll do some prizes for those of you who are here live. So, all right, here we go. Mark, Edwin. Hello, my dear. Thank you for all of the YouTube videos. I've seen a lot as I have it issues. Can you recommend a user platform? Canva frustrates me, so I don't really use Canva either. I have still used humans to design my stuff. I send my stuff to designers. So I mean, for a platform, you say can you recommend a platform if you're mentioning Canva, I assume you mean design, but you might not. So can you clarify for me what you mean by recommend a platform? And are you talking about a design platform or something else?

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Nothing else. Okay, let's do prizes. I. Angela, you guys can't see her, but Angela's going no more. There's nothing else. Okay, so let's see if we have. If I can find. Here we go. Okay, so everybody who is. Who's made a comment so far, you have been entered to win. And James Johnson said, I love Canva. Yes. Shane on my team is a Canva wizard. I think there's quite a few people on my team that love Canva. I just. I don't have a great. I don't have the design ability, like, where I can see a design and go, wow, that's great design. But I can't make the design great. So I think that's why I don't like it. So here we go. Book launchers. Let's see who is here. Today we have 20 people who have said hello and entered their name in. All right, here we go. Reba. Congratulations, Reba. Angela will let you know there's books, There's a little bit of our hashtag, no boring book swag. And you just have to let Angela know what you would like and where you would like it sent. All right, so we're going to draw one more time for everybody who is here. Let's do one more draw, see who our other winner is. Matilda, congratulations. I think that's the first time you've ever won. So thank you for being here and commenting. And you'll email Angela@teambooklaunchers.com and let her know what the prize is that you would like, as well as your mailing address so she can ship it out. So congratulations. It's great to. I mean, I love seeing all the winners, but I love when somebody new wins something. And I don't have the new SWAG here, but also I'm very excited because the Author Launch Kit swag has started to arrive, and it looks so good. Our new Author Launch Kit logo for our software that's coming out in June is. It's a really, really cool logo, so I'm really excited for that. And of course, at our summit, we'll be giving SWAG away, as well as lifetime licenses to Author Launch Kit and some Author Business accelerator memberships as well. So lots of fun things. All right, so thank you. I do my own art for a kids book, and I need something to upload to the publisher you got me there, I don't really know, especially for the kids book. So Dale Roberts, he's published some stuff on kids books and, you know, he may have some suggestions as well as April Cox. She, her website, maybe Angela, you can find her. It's little Labradoodle is her, is April Cox's website. So you could put that in there and, and you can tell April that, that we sent you over there. She may have some recommendations and suggestions. She also has a lot of great support tools for people doing kids books. So. And Rachel says, assuming the summit is online. Yes, the summit is online and it is four hours a day, like I said, June 19th, 20th and 21st. So it's a Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We will potentially be doing something in person later in the year or maybe. And if it's, if it's in demand, we might start doing more in person things twice a year. So maybe once in the east and once in the west or something like that. I would love to start getting our community together in person because last year at the Author Nation, I was going to call it 20 books to 50k. I'm still not quite ready to call it Author Nation, even though it officially changed to Author Nation last year at Author Nation, it was so fun and really cool to have our authors get together at Author Nation. And in fact, two of them just became like instant besties, which I just love to see the relationships form so quickly in person. So that got me thinking that once we got through this software launch that something live and in person might be a cool next step for us. But first, let's do this live summit. So join us there and we'll have a lot of fun. The content's going to be great. We have some guest speakers and then we're producing. Shane, Sarah and I on my team, we're all producing some really great sessions and we're going to have some hot seats as well. So some of our clients, as well as our author Business accelerator authors, and then maybe some folks from the YouTube community will be posting an application. If you're interested in doing a hot seat or a short presentation at our summit, that will all be coming out real soon as well. Let me. Let's all meet in Northern Canada in February. That's a really great idea if you like being cold. And I moved to Las Vegas because I don't like being cold. I would much rather be very, very hot. So conversely, Eric, I will raise your Northern Canada and match you with a let's meet in Vegas in The middle of July. How about that? All right. Bart says, are you ever going to extend your services to fiction? Maybe. But honestly, we have so much to do in the nonfiction space right now that I would say we're going to definitely, for the next couple of years, just continue our intense focus on nonfiction. With the rollout of author launch kit and our community, I think there's still a lot for us to do in the nonfiction space. And fiction is a different. As a different world, and I would have to hire an entirely different team for fiction, so. So not right now. I won't say never, but I'll say not right now. All right. And do you have suggestions for a German book launch? Do what I suggest in English, but do it in German. I'm not sure. I mean, some of this depends on when you say a German book launch. Do you mean you're launching it in German, but in the United States? Are you launching it in German but in another. And do you speak German fluently? There's a lot of factors, because one of the things with our authors is a lot of them are looking for translations or they want to have their book published in another language. To me, the simplest path that I've seen is the one and we've had, thankfully, quite a few authors go down this path is they get an international publisher. Nick Hutchinson is one example. I think Carol Sanford had a deal at some point. We have a couple other clients that are potentially nothing signed, but there's interest in potential deals on, on, on the way. But they get a publisher in another country, in another language that publishes their book. So they get paid an upfront fee, and then they get ongoing royalties. They don't speak this language, and the publisher does everything in that country. They promote it, they. They translate it, all of those things. So that's one, you know, one path. But no, I don't. I don't have any experience with German books in Germany, so. Sorry. My. My guess is a lot of what we talk about for strategy around, you know, a podcast, the timing of things, you know, getting book reviews, getting into the catalogs. While they might be different catalogs, I think the steps in the process will be very similar, but just. Just specific to your country. Is that it? All right, folks, Rachel says she's in Nigeria. That's awesome. I love to hear it. And James says, let's meet in Palm Springs in October. You know, I think that that is more feasible. I was actually thinking the first event could potentially be near end of October in. In Phoenix or in, you know, in and around somewhere in there. So Palm Springs wouldn't be out of the question. I think there's. There's something. Something to it, but we'll see. Like I said, we're going to get through the software first and then we'll talk person meetings and events after that. One thing at a time. But thank you so much for being here. And if you haven't already, make sure you register for the Author Launch Kit Summit, which is happening in June. And then I believe Shane and Sarah will actually be back here in two weeks for the next live. They'll be giving you a preview of the Author Launch Kit as well as some teaser content of what's to come in the summit. And. And then two weeks after that, we'll have somebody else here doing a guest interview, I believe. So you'll have to wait for that. But I hope to see all of you at the summit because it's going to be fantastic and we're very, very excited. All right, thanks so much, everybody, and we'll see you soon. Thanks, Ang.