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Stop Chasing the Perfect Book Launch

If you’ve been told your book must explode on day one or Amazon will bury it forever, we’re here to take that weight off your shoulders. Joel Pitney and Sayde Walker dig into the launch myths we hear constantly from first-time authors and why they create so much anxiety: the belief that you only get one shot, that perfect keywords and categories will “hack” the Amazon algorithm, and that Amazon will somehow promote your book if you do everything just right.

We get practical about how discovery actually works on Amazon KDP, including why new titles sometimes don’t even appear in search at…

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