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If you write romance, thriller, or dark fantasy and you’re wondering whether Kindle Unlimited is worth your time, here’s a number that should settle it: the KDP Select Global Fund paid out $70.3 million to authors in May 2026 — the highest single-month total on record. That’s not a one-off spike. It’s the latest point…
If you write romance, fantasy, or any of seven other genres and haven’t heard of the Indie Author Project Annual Contest, you’re missing one of the more genuinely useful opportunities in the self-publishing world — one that doesn’t ask you to pay an entry fee, doesn’t care about your follower count, and puts your book…
If your rankings have felt shakier than usual lately, you’re not imagining it. Amazon has quietly moved the goalposts again, and the shift matters more for indie authors than almost any KDP update in recent memory. For years, the system rewarded volume. A well-timed ad push or a launch-day sales spike could carry a book’s…
