I rejected every fancy way to make money online: Youtube,...
Tommi Pedruzzi@TommiPedruzzi
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Sep 09, 2026
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I rejected every fancy way to make money online: Youtube, Dropshipping, freelancing.
And started selling short nonfiction eBooks on Amazon... made $700K in the last 11 months.
Here's my 7 years of publishing knowledge in 14 tweets: (save this)
And started selling short nonfiction eBooks on Amazon... made $700K in the last 11 months.
Here's my 7 years of publishing knowledge in 14 tweets: (save this)
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Step 1: Open Amazon, go to Best Sellers in Books, pick a category with thousands of buyers and ongoing demand.
Health, money, relationships, parenting.
Not a category you find interesting. A category that's already proven.
Health, money, relationships, parenting.
Not a category you find interesting. A category that's already proven.
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Inside that category, find books with strong sales rankings but weak covers and mediocre reviews.
That combination means the demand exists, but nobody's serving it well yet. Ignore the 5-star reviews ones.
That combination means the demand exists, but nobody's serving it well yet. Ignore the 5-star reviews ones.
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Read the 3-star reviews on those books. They tell you exactly what's missing, what confused readers, and what they wish had been included.
That's your product brief, written for free by your future customers.
That's your product brief, written for free by your future customers.
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Step 2: Outline with ChatGPT. Feed it the gap you found and ask for a full chapter-by-chapter outline. Not the book itself, just the structure.
This takes about 10 minutes and gives you the blueprint for a book that fixes what the market already told you was broken.
This takes about 10 minutes and gives you the blueprint for a book that fixes what the market already told you was broken.
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Step 3: Write with Claude. Paste your outline in and give it a detailed prompt for tone, structure, and word count per chapter.
A full 80-100 page draft comes back in a few hours, voice staying consistent from chapter 1 to the last chapter.
A full 80-100 page draft comes back in a few hours, voice staying consistent from chapter 1 to the last chapter.
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This matters more than people think.
ChatGPT is great for ideation but drifts in long-form writing. Claude's longer context keeps the framework from chapter 1 intact all the way through chapter 10.
That's the difference between a 3-star book and a 4.5-star one.
ChatGPT is great for ideation but drifts in long-form writing. Claude's longer context keeps the framework from chapter 1 intact all the way through chapter 10.
That's the difference between a 3-star book and a 4.5-star one.
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Step 4: Polish with Grammarly and Hemingway.
Grammarly cleans grammar and tightens sentences.
Hemingway flags anything too dense or hard to read.
Run the draft through both. Takes about an hour, and it's the difference between amateur and professional on the page.
Grammarly cleans grammar and tightens sentences.
Hemingway flags anything too dense or hard to read.
Run the draft through both. Takes about an hour, and it's the difference between amateur and professional on the page.
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Step 5: Design the cover in Ideogram, free.
Look at the top 5 bestsellers in your category first and match their visual language, fonts, color palette, layout.
Different title, same trust signals. A weak cover kills a good book before anyone reads the description.
Look at the top 5 bestsellers in your category first and match their visual language, fonts, color palette, layout.
Different title, same trust signals. A weak cover kills a good book before anyone reads the description.
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Step 6: Upload to KDP. Paperback, Kindle, hardcover.
Check the AI disclosure box, it's required, not prohibited. Price the paperback $12.99-$16.99. One upload publishes across all 17 Amazon marketplaces at once.
Check the AI disclosure box, it's required, not prohibited. Price the paperback $12.99-$16.99. One upload publishes across all 17 Amazon marketplaces at once.
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Step 7: Launch. Price at $0.99 for the first 5 days. Post in 3 niche Facebook groups. DM 10-15 people directly for honest reviews.
Get to 15 reviews and Amazon's algorithm starts moving the book on its own.
Get to 15 reviews and Amazon's algorithm starts moving the book on its own.
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One book selling 4-5 copies a day at $5 net per copy is roughly $700/month. Publish 3-4 books in the same niche within 60 days, and $2,800-$3,000/month stops being a projection and starts being arithmetic.
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This isn't theory. A guy from 9 to 5 used the same apporach and made $16.700 in just 90 days. An Amercian actor used the same to make $130,000.
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The system compounds past that first $3,000. Book 2 gets recommended alongside book 1. Book 3 lifts both. By book 12, this is how 12 books built one at a time turns into $100K/year.
Today, I'm giving away the entire system for free 👇🏻
Today, I'm giving away the entire system for free 👇🏻
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• How to find profitable niches
• AI prompts for outline and book creation
• Book cover strategy to get max clicks
• Amazon review strategy
• Amazon KDP ads
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• AI prompts for outline and book creation
• Book cover strategy to get max clicks
• Amazon review strategy
• Amazon KDP ads
Get everything here:
event.publishingos.io/register-now?h…
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Tommi Pedruzzi@TommiPedruzzi
I rejected every fancy way to make money online: Youtube, Dropshipping, freelancing.
And started selling short nonfiction eBooks on Amazon... made $700K in the last 11 months.
Here's my 7 years of publishing knowledge in 14 tweets: (save this)
And started selling short nonfiction eBooks on Amazon... made $700K in the last 11 months.
Here's my 7 years of publishing knowledge in 14 tweets: (save this)