I Published My First Book on Amazon KDP: I’m Waiting for the Money to Roll in Now

That is how it works right?

Creating a cover for my book was the hardest part. Image created by author in Canva.

It is surprisingly satisfying to go through the process of formatting your writing into a book even when you don’t know if you will get a single sale. As of today, you can purchase A Habit a Day Keeps the Failure Away as an ebook with a paperback version soon to follow. Or you can read for free if you have Kindle Unlimited.

For legal reasons, please note I will make money if you purchase my book. Which is kind of the point really. This is an experiment in bundling together writing already published on Medium into book form to see if I can earn a little more than the pennies received so far. I’ll keep you posted.

I love reading habit formation books in the same way I leaf through recipe books. I might make this someday, I think looking at the photo of an elaborate dish with 20 ingredients and 10 different steps. I could be the sort of person whose entire house is clean by the time she sits down to write, cup of tea in hand at 8:30 am, I say imagining myself actually following the steps in a habit-building book.

A year ago, I decided to move building good habits in my own life from the fiction to the nonfiction category. I wrote about my journey every day for 60 days right here in this…