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The Lab Report: How to Stop Guessing and Start Selling
The Indie Author’s Edge
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
I Formatted Books in Microsoft Word. Then I Found Atticus.
I still remember staring at a PDF export from Microsoft Word at 11 PM, watching the chapter headers float three millimeters off-center on every other…
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
The Dashboard Autopsy
How I Found the Leak That Killed My $5,000 Monthly Baseline
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
The KDP Dashboard Autopsy Prompt
A No-Sycophant Forensic Audit for Indie Authors
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
Amazon Attribution: A No-Nonsense Guide for Indie Authors
You spend money on Facebook ads.
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
I looked at every beta reader platform on the market. Here's what I found — and why I ended up building my own.
A honest breakdown of BetaBooks, BetaReader.io, StoryOrigin, and Scribophile — from someone who used them all before deciding none of them were quite…
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
Going Wide Isn’t Wrong. It’s Just Not for You Yet.
I told you going wide was worth considering.
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
Module 6: The Flywheel
Momentum & Market Entry
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
The KDP Briefing Nobody Gave You
A 2026 KDP Beginners Guide
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
The Post-Apoc Novel I Didn’t Know I Was Waiting For
Overwhelming Chaos by Felisa Ordep
 • Marcin Pilarczyk
The Indie Lab
The Indie Lab
Business intelligence for self-publishing indie authors. Most of what I publish here is free. Paid subscribers get the frameworks, prompts, and tools behind every post.
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