Ready to stop begging Amazon for scraps?
Resistance expert Kit Perez on building structural trust outside the system
Most indie authors hate Amazon but keep feeding it anyway. They complain about the algorithm, the pennies-per-read, the soul-crushing rankings—then immediately upload their next book to KDP.
Kit Perez (@shepardscale), an intelligence analyst and resistance expert, explains why this happens: we’re trained to emotionally trust systems that will never reward us. In this week’s interview, she breaks down the difference between owning customers (Amazon’s game) and owning readers (yours), why traumatized writers fall hardest for publishing scams, and the three non-negotiable rules for building a parallel economy that can’t be stripped away by algorithmic whim.
Watch if you’re ready to stop performing for a machine that sees you as extractable value.⬇️