EP. 3407 - TBT: Kindle Books Produce Passive Income for Aussie Novelist
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday” segment, we hear from Kyla Gardner in Melbourne, Australia. She’s created passive income from a series of self-published nonfiction books—and now she’s jumping into fiction.
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| 0:00.0 | As we come to the end of another month, I want to tell you today about Kindle Books |
| 0:11.5 | that produce passive income for Aussie novelist. This is a fun story. We're going to go to |
| 0:17.2 | Melbourne, Australia, at least virtually. It's a beautiful city, by the way. I'm just sad. |
| 0:21.4 | We're not going there in person, but for now, virtually at least. We're going to hear from |
| 0:25.2 | Kyla Gardner. She has created passive income from a series of self-published nonfiction books on |
| 0:30.9 | Kindle. That would be Amazon's Kindle direct publishing platform. And now she's actually jumping into |
| 0:36.0 | fiction. This segment is part of our throwback Thursday |
| 0:39.2 | series. We also call it, Where Are They Now? We get to take an in-depth look at someone whose story |
| 0:43.8 | has evolved since we first featured them. So Kyla has been very productive. She's written all of these |
| 0:49.8 | nonfiction books. They're kind of like guides or handbooks. And it's basically a lifestyle |
| 0:53.7 | business that allows her to do other things. You're going to hear about that, like write fiction. |
| 0:58.9 | So this all sounds like a pretty cool business to me. Let's hear some details and some updates |
| 1:03.1 | from Kyla. I'm hoping this is going to inspire some listeners out there. I'll be back at the end |
| 1:07.6 | with a quick wrap up. |
| 1:20.9 | My name is Kyla Gardner and I live in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1:23.7 | My side hustle is self-publishing e-books. |
| 1:30.2 | I was featured on episode 106 of Side Hustle School. I have more than 50 books published now. |
| 1:34.5 | I've written a lot of them myself, but some of them I have outsourced to other writers. |
| 1:39.5 | I got started by hearing about Kindle from one of my coworkers who was making money from it. |
| 1:44.1 | At the time, I worked in customer service for a software company that helped people sell physical |
| 1:44.5 | products on Amazon. |
| 1:46.6 | Before that, I worked as a journalist, so Kindle made sense as a combination of those two areas. |
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