$70.3 Million Was Up for Grabs on Kindle Unlimited Last Month. Are You Getting Your Share?
Amazon just quietly published a number that every indie author on KDP Select should be talking about. The KDP Select Global Fund for May 2026 hit $70.3 million. That’s the pool of money Amazon set aside — just for one month — to pay authors enrolled in Kindle Unlimited based on how many pages their…
Stop Chasing Followers. Build a Home Base.
There’s a version of author advice that never quite goes away, no matter how many times the algorithm changes beneath it: get more followers. Post more. Go viral. Build your platform. And then, quietly, the goalposts move. The platform shifts. The reach drops. The followers you spent months accumulating stop seeing your posts. You start…
The Binary Is Dead: Why Hybrid Publishing Is Now the Smart Author’s Default Strategy
For as long as most of us have been writing, the publishing conversation has gone something like this: traditional or indie? Prestige or control? Wait two years for an agent, or upload to KDP tonight? It was always a false choice. In 2026, the industry is finally admitting it. Hybrid publishing — the strategy of…