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What is this talk about?
This Wordy Worded Words talk has two parts: how easy this can be and how people take advantage of it to appear as something they are not, and how you can get up something real at a limited or zero dollar budget.
The talk overview
In seven hours, at a $0 cost outside of the Claude subscription and the Canva subscription I already had, to be fully transparent, I had a book up on Amazon, both a paperback and an ebook. Within an hour of the submission to Amazon, the ebook was up, and two hours later, the paperback was available for sale.
The reason I did this is a joke, and I made sure to be very careful to list that it’s a satire. But it’s also not a joke. My intention was more so to bring light to this, that this is how easy it is.
I would say right now, the majority of these books coming out are coming from people that have limited experience, limited knowledge, but an excess of ability in how to use AI and how to use these marketing tactics to appear as something that they’re not. One of my warning signs for a lot of the false business books is when every opening thought or closing thought or quote in the middle is from somebody else, because then where does that show their authority?
From what I have seen, some take their stories, whether with AI or themselves, and wrap them in other people’s work. To me, it’s a form of plagiarism. Then they pop the thing into some category that nobody’s using, get three purchases, and get their little bestseller picture. For two minutes or 60 minutes, it can look like a bestseller, which, in my view, it’s not.
The other side of this talk is that what I did here is something you can do for a real book too. I asked Claude to load in all the regulations and the requirements of what a book needs, from spine sizes to cover sizes to where the indent should be to font size to spacing. So it wasn’t just make me a book. It was going a little bit further and making it so that it could happen a little bit faster and a little bit more compliant.
From what I have seen, many people are formatting off of guesses, or they’re working with designers that are not laying out the book correctly. It’s inside of the detail that you can get things done faster and on a first pass.
I asked Claude to use a mixture of the layouts of my other five books to create a professional layout, set up the KDP, which costs nothing, and looked at the keywords, the A+ content and the words that can get a book flagged. But I also knew that I didn’t want to deceive. So I made sure to put satire, and Claude also recommended putting satire on the cover.
Wordy Worded Words is my satire of wordy words, put out under my pen name, Wordy Worderson. It is on Amazon in paperback, hardcover and Kindle, and as an audiobook narrated by AI Voice Michael on Amazon, Audible and Amazon Music. It is also listed on the Wordy Worderson author page on Amazon. How it was made, and why, is on the Wordy Worded Words page and in the Wait What Really OK episode.
Takeaways and touch points
- Some ways to know what a specific book may need before the build, from spine and cover sizes to indents, font sizes, spacing and other elements of compliance.
- Building from your own layouts, your own stories and your own words, so other people’s quotes and authority are not carrying the book.
- Setting up KDP and other distribution methods that do not cost anything.
- Adding A+ content and other free pages that can help cross-promote the book.
- Clarity around what your book is about online, from keywords and descriptions to SEO and AEO.
- Elements to consider and things to watch out for before buying a book, hiring an editor or paying for book promotion.
- Checking your own work for possible unintentional plagiarism.
- Some ways to vet sources, professionals and consultants who may claim to have all the answers for your book.
- Identifying some of the red flags of books released by frauds.
Closing the talk
Wouldn’t it be better to take the time to vet, to verify, to look for the honorable foundation, the expertise, the proof, and then from there decide where you’re considering guidance, considering who you’re going to listen to, considering who you might want to work with?
Take care of your dream, of your business, of your vision. Treat it like a living, breathing child.
This is one set of ideas, parameters and strategies that are worth considering. It is not the answer. It may be part of an answer in how you look at the books you buy, and how you put up your own.
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What does the Wordy Worded Words talk cover?
The Wordy Worded Words talk covers how easy it can be to put a book up on Amazon in hours for $0, and how some use that to appear as something they are not. It also walks through some of the steps that can help get a real, authentic book up on a limited or zero dollar budget. I made sure to list the book as a satire, because my intention was to bring light to how easy this is.
How long can it take to put a book up on Amazon?
In my experience, once the book was complete and followed all the guidelines and best practices, the Kindle edition was up on KDP within an hour and the paperback within two hours. The hardcover was live in 20 minutes, and the audiobook went up overnight. The whole Wordy Worded Words book took seven hours to put together, at a $0 cost outside of the Claude subscription and the Canva subscription I already had, to be fully transparent.
Can an authentic and true book be put up on a $0 budget?
In my experience, an authentic and true book can be distributed on KDP for $0, since setting up KDP cost me nothing. Putting out a book in a stronger way can include a small budget for copyright, ISBNs, a publishing company, mailing copies to the Library of Congress, art, editors, promotion and other aspects that can help it. I asked Claude to load in the regulations and requirements of what a book needs, from spine sizes to cover sizes to indents, font size and spacing, so the book could go up a little faster and a little more compliant.
What warning signs can show a book is not what it appears to be?
Warning signs can include a lot of quotes that come from other people, plagiarism found when the book is checked, fake likes and fake reviews. Others can be bestseller claims that are not true, from books put into categories no one is in. One of my warning signs for a lot of the false business books is when every opening thought or closing thought or quote in the middle is from somebody else, because then where does that show their authority?
How can you check the person behind a book?
You can check the person behind a book by searching a handful of their quotes to see whether they belong to them or to other people, and by looking for more than their own promotion. Do things show up about them from the past and show perseverance over time, or does it all seem to appear at once? From what I have seen, some take their stories, whether with AI or themselves, and wrap them in other people’s work. To me, it is a form of plagiarism.
Who is the Wordy Worded Words talk for?
The Wordy Worded Words talk can suit an array of people who read, buy and write books, and those choosing which speakers, consultants and coaches to learn from. It can be tailored to the level of understanding and the size of your audience, from small board rooms to full capacity convention centers. Loren Weisman closes the talk by asking whether it would be better to take the time to vet, to verify, and to look for the honorable foundation, the expertise and the proof before deciding who to listen to.
How can the Wordy Worded Words talk be booked?
You can book this talk directly through Loren Weisman at speaking@lorenweisman.com or +1-850-391-8053, or through a speaker bureau: All American Speakers, SpeakerHub, PDA Speakers or Speakerpedia. In person, he can be 30 minutes or less from hotels and convention centers in Orlando proper, and he can speak virtually as well. Run times, what a room calls for, the terms and the other talk titles are on the speaking page.
Speaker and presenter bio
Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist based in Orlando, Florida, working worldwide. He can help businesses and individuals build authentic and authoritative brands by aligning messaging, optics and communication.
He works with established experts, and with people who hold real knowledge and experience but lack a clear brand presence. The approach emphasizes transparency and truth, amplifying genuine expertise over hype.
His background includes work as a drummer and producer on 700+ albums, television production credits with ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS and TLC, and consulting roles across a range of industries. He has written five books. Four are published under his own name, including Music Business For Dummies from John Wiley and Sons, The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business from Greenleaf Book Group, and Alphabet Animal Adventures Across America, written with his daughter. The fifth is a 2026 book released under a pen name. Separate from those five, he also put out the satire Wordy Worded Words as Wordy Worderson, a pen name he uses openly.
As a speaker he delivers down to earth, educational and applicable presentations. Every talk can be tailored to the level of understanding and the size of the audience, from small board rooms to full capacity convention centers. There are no locked in slide decks and no one size fits all presentations.
Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist who specializes in illuminating authoritative intelligence and amplifying authentic experts.
Weisman is the host of the brand communications and optics podcast Wait What Really OK.
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