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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/08/2026

Does your monthly royalty run eat your whole weekend? Imprint Royalties does the lot in less than two minutes. No cloud. No monthly subscription. Your data stays yours. And now you can try it free with no risk for 30 days. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/imprint-core

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 12/08/2026

I've decided to give the Small Press Operating Manual away for free from the Moonstruck website. Running a press and drowning in admin? Thinking about moving from self publishing to selling for others? This might help. Download for free from the link below www.moonstrucksoftware.com/freebook

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 05/08/2026

If you publish audio through ACX, check your July statements before you pay anyone. Their new royalty model changed the statement layout, and figures taken from the summary tab can come out 66% lower. I said in May this wouldn't be a problem. I was wrong. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/post/acx-s-n...

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ACX’s New Royalty Model: Why Your Data is Safe (And Why AYCL Is Mostly Just "KENP for Audiobooks")

UPDATE - AUGUST 2026. ACX changed the layout of their royalty statements with the July payments. If you take your figures from the summary tab, they may be understating by around 66%. Check your July ...

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Missing in action tonight - going to a lecture about Scorsese’s Taxi Driver - don’t have fun without me, fellow kids…

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 05/08/2026

So, I did a thing. It started with a series of blog posts, that was supposed to turn into a 20 page how to guide and instead became a full sized book because I realise that no one ever talks about how you do this stuff properly and so many small presses manage by trial and error

Book cover for the small press operating manual by Graeme Reynolds. Blur background white text with a flowchart showing the stages of publication

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 20/07/2026

A lot of the small presses and indie authors I know struggle with marketing so I've started a blog series to share a few pointers. The first one is up now and covers your product page including blurb writing. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/post/how-to-...

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How to Build a High-Converting Amazon Product Page for Any Genre (Before Running Ads)

Before we get into the details of running successful Facebook ads on your books, there is one thing that needs to be taken care of first. Your Amazon Product Page.Ads are good for one thing, and one t...

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 02/07/2026

Imprint Royalties v1.9.4.8.1 — 02 July 2026 Minor bug-fix release. ### Fixes - **Anthology contributors wrongly flagged as orphans if no other titles existed. - **KDP current-format import (2024 column rename).** Some KDP accounts used different column headings for historical data. Fixed.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 30/06/2026

The second book in my Jack Carlton Supernatural Thriller series dropped today. And the first book is only 0.99 until Friday

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 26/06/2026

Ahead of By Dawn's Early Light coming out on Tuesday, the first book in the Jack Carlton series is on sale for 0.99 on Kindle until the 3rd July. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7ZXGWVJ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7ZXGWVJ

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 20/06/2026

Imprint 1.9.4.8 is now out. Adds support for legacy KDP files (pre 2016), resolves a bug with Google imports and now splits free sales out into a separate dashboard item. Check the FB page for full release notes.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 18/06/2026

This (along with the book review I posted earlier) has really made my day. When an indie press titan like Jen from Raw Dog Screaming Press gives an endorsement like this, it makes 3 years of design and development worthwhile

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 18/06/2026

The reviews are coming in! Less than two weeks to go!

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 17/06/2026

The first review of By Dawn's Early Light is live! (Breathes a sigh of relief)

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 16/06/2026

I'm on book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl - done the whole lot in a month, only pausing to do the latest Dresden Files

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/06/2026

Imprint Royalties has a new review! Disclaimer - despite this review being on an AI tools site, Imprint has no AI functionality whatsoever. ai4writers.club/ai-tools-for...

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 09/06/2026

21 days until this beauty is out there. Burning questions such as "how do you clean the cage of a demonically possessed guinea pig" may or may not be answered.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 09/06/2026

I am so happy it's proving useful to you. Honestly, I love hearing your success stories

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 23/05/2026

Yeah, but its tricky. The ads work for me now but they did tank last year. Only worth doing with a series with audiobooks to be honest and fb keeps messing with them so what works now might die horribly in a week

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 23/05/2026

I'm doing OK on them at the moment. Went from a return on ad spend of about 2.22 to 3.92 last week (in part helped by someone clearing out a bunch of audiobook codes from a site for a title created in 2016). Only worth it if you have a series with audiobooks tbh

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Crystal Lake Publishing @crystallake.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Final call for Halloween themed flash fiction stories (subs close end of May): www.patreon.com/posts/this-m...

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 20/05/2026

Am fairly sure someone moved all of my spoons to tuscany. I should probably go check.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 20/05/2026

I ended up blocking Dan Simmons on FB. He was not a nice guy. Enjoyed some of his earlier work but thats about it.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 19/05/2026

All the stress, doubt and worry when you launch a new product is made worthwhile when you see a review like this from someone who has run a small press since 1988. Thank you @darlenecypser.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #BookBiz #HorrorCommunity

Review of Imprint Royalties software from producthunt.com

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 19/05/2026

It's frustrating for the authors but also for those of us who run reputable small presses. There are plenty of systems out there that can automate author royalty statements. It doesnt have to be a spreadsheet nightmare. And once a presses reputation is gone, it never comes back.

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Antiqueight @antiqueight.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

How many times can I repost this..

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 15/05/2026

Got some massive upgrades to do to Imprint. But not today. First rule of software development. You dont deploy anything on a Friday unless the world is on fire. But big drop on Monday :)

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 11/05/2026

Moonstruck Software - home of the Imprint suite of indie press publishing tools is now on Trustpilot :) uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.m...

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 19/04/2026

If I want something to help me track down a python bug or scan a manuscript for plot holes, i probably don't need it to understand quantum physics, haberdashery techniques and agricultural trends of the 17th century. The tool and agent use is where llms are useful right now

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 19/04/2026

My personal stack at the moment is qwen3.5 122b for heavy analytics work with gemma4 27b for almost everything else. Sounds like qwen 3.6 32b might have the big model beat. The frontier models just keep throwing more data and more tin at advancement but smaller fine tuned ones are the future i think

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 18/04/2026

Their Gemma model and qwen 3.5 are the first ones i've found genuinely useful locally hosted.(not tried qwen3.6 yet). The idea that these can run on a 16gb macbook air completely offline does change things in terms of use case and maybe having smaller specialist local models is the way forward

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 18/04/2026

I do a lot of open source llm work because I needed to learn it for my day job. The Chinese models (qwen3.5 in particular) have been very impressive, but bizarrely google released an open source series (Gemma 4) where the smallest will run on a decent spec phone and the 8b one runs fine on a mac

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 17/04/2026

Today's video is a bit of fun before I get back to the How To guides. Can you do a full small press monthly royalty run in 60 seconds? Watch and find out... youtu.be/E-gFZ0mzGsg?...

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Small Publisher Royalty Speedrun in 60 Seconds

YouTube video by Moonstruck Software

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 17/04/2026

What seems to have passed execs by is that Garbage In, Garbage Out applies even more to AI coding. To get anything even vaguely passable you need to give it explicit, unambiguous requirements. And after 30 years in IT I can tell you that requirement design has always been a problem.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 15/04/2026

Just delisted every title I had with them. Honestly, most titles didn't really do much anyway and I checked the last years sales from and its just not worth continuing. Putting everything back in KU now and abandoning the wide experiment.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/04/2026

My own sales profile is a little different - I am about 40/40/20 between KDP, ACX and Ingram. The D2D sales make up a tiny percentage of sales. The audiobooks generally are the most lucrative, certainly on a title by title basis.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/04/2026

That is very impressive. And you might be able to help me with something. Have dropped you a DM.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/04/2026

There is a lot more stuff in core, thats for sure. The basic edition is great if you are KDP only and want to keep it simple though.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/04/2026

Tell me about it. Managing spreadsheets made my teeth itch. I used to run a massive spreadsheet with power query imports but it didn't handle payments and it broke as soon as kdp changed their format. Hope this is useful to you. Let me know if it helps

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 14/04/2026

Honestly, its a really common problem. One guy i spoke to said he'd been waiting for 10 years for someone to solve this. I just got fed up of waiting for someone else to sort it out

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 13/04/2026

Here's the link to the free basic edition. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/imprint-basic

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 13/04/2026

I've spoken about the Imprint app I developed but I figured show don't tell. So here is a rough video of a monthly multicurrency royalty run done start to finish in under 2 minutes. youtu.be/k9x-PJpSox4?...

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Imprint 2 minute demo

YouTube video by Moonstruck Software

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 13/02/2026

🖋️📖💰 - #indiepublisher #indieauthorlife I've run a small press for over 15 years and one of the biggest pains is the royalty run each month. It can take hours extracting the info you need from spreadsheets. So, I wrote a tool that does it automatically for KDP. And I'm giving it away free.

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