Planted in Bali 🌴 Powered by KDP royalties
Romance books, a backlist that pays, and a much quieter life.
Pages to Paradise is where I share how I run a 7-pen-name romance catalog with AI, zero meetings required. Learn the system yourself, hand the work off to me, or just watch the backlist do its thing.
Three ways in
How do you want to do this?
Plot. Publish. Profit.
The 17-lesson course. My exact system for going from messy voice note to a published, compounding catalog. Prompts, worksheets and a 180-day plan inside.
Look inside → Hand it offDone-for-you services
Plots, AI-assisted ghostwriting, covers and packaging, built with the same workflow behind my own catalog. Pick a piece or hand off the whole book.
See services → Follow alongNotes from the villa
KDP, AI publishing, backlist math and the occasional unhinged rant about hustle culture. Free, forever, no email required.
Read the blog →The receipts
1 single book
5x growth, same book
54 assets
See the dashboard screenshots
Results not guaranteed. These are my own numbers, from my catalog and my workflow.
Hi, I'm Emily 👋
I didn't want a bigger business. I wanted a quieter life.
I'd spent about five years in the book industry, running a marketing business for authors (it still runs, with my team). At the end of 2024, on vacation in Bali and burned out on client work, I decided to build something of my own. No high-maintenance personal brand. Just a quiet, lowkey life on my terms.
So I treated publishing like what it actually is: a digital asset business. Market-first positioning, covers that convert, and AI drafting workflows. Today I run 7 pen names and more than 50 books in English, plus translations. My husband and I moved back to Bali full-time, and I officially retired him (if you don't count the occasional admin task I throw his way lol).
Rather hand it off?
All services →You bring the idea (or don't). I bring the system behind my 7-pen-name catalog. Pick one piece or hand off the whole book.
From the blog
All posts →
7 ways to write romantic tension readers can't put down
Chemistry isn't about describing feelings. It's about friction, subtext and what your characters refuse to say. Here's how to build it.
The romance subgenres that sell best on Kindle Unlimited
Not all romance is created equal on KU. Here's how to think about which subgenres have hungry, bingeing readers, and how to pick yours.
How to plot a romance novel in one afternoon (with AI)
From a messy voice note to a full chapter-by-chapter outline in a few hours, without staring at a blank page for weeks.
The free indie author toolkit
Every guide on this site, in the order you'll need it, plus the free tools I'd bookmark if I were starting KDP today.