Everything You Need to Self-Publish Your Book

Everything You Need to Self-Publish Your Book // Self-publishing a book can be overwhelming, so today I wanted to make a list of all the information and files you need to have ready and prepared before you sit down to upload your book to a print on demand company like Kindle Direct Publishing. We'll be going through all the metadata information, as well as files for the book itself such as the formatted manuscript and cover files for your book.

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IN THIS VIDEO:
0:00 - Intro
1:38 - Sponsor
2:31 - Your book's metadata
3:22 - Book title
3:52 - Sub-title
5:16 - Author name
6:04 - Keywords
6:22 - Categories
7:24 - Price of your book
8:34 - Manuscript
10:20 - Book cover

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Mandi Lynn published her first novel when she was seventeen. The author of multiple books, Mandi spends her days continuing to write and creating YouTube videos to help other writers achieve their dreams of seeing their books published. Mandi is the owner of Stone Ridge Books, a company that works to help authors bring their books to life through cover design and digital book marketing. She is also the creator of The Book Launch Planner, a planner designed to help authors publish and market their books. When she’s not creating, you can find Mandi exploring her backyard or getting lost in the woods.

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[snowberries]

You have a great style and lots of good energy. I, however, am an older person who wants to publish reflections and poetry, portraits of interesting people, very short stories including a couple for children, ....nothing long or involved...I'm also not that informed about computer processes though one of my sons may be able to help me. I probably need to have someone give opinions on my writing....ans how to distribute/ market

[unclederrick]

So on the title page etc. Do you list yourself as the publisher or the POD company?
Or what if you use more than one?

[wannaduckfin]

I just ordered the publishing planner! I need this!

[jenniferward]

Fabulous helpful beyond. Buying your book

[scottkeeler]

Great information, however I found out there is so much more like-Getting a copyright from the government, ISBN #s, putting in the front matter, the back matter, the Blurb, and book description. When I thought I was ready to publish, It took me 5 more months because of what I didn't know. I have watched at least 30 of your videos because I understand the information you put out better. Next I will have to take your formatting course.

[sparkleme]

Would this work for a picture books with hand drawn art, printed papers, tags, cards, bookmarks for cutting out to apply to journals, scrapbooks etc, thank you for any help.

[meetadera]

Hi, how do I publish a special edition for my book (a change of book cover)? Can I do that on KDP? And how?

[MarkRGoujon]

Mandi, thank you for your advice and sharing resources you personally use. Do you have any specific information for self publishing poetry books?

[DontGoToHell]

I was considerate of metadata and search terms, and my self-published book still does not show up to page ten and beyond of Amazon, using the search terms.

Also, it's hard to get a new book noticed or reviewed by people. All the reviewers for my religious/spiritual genre of books are 'booked.'

[abc-nimi]

Can you publish with more than one publisher/distributer at a time? Do you have a video on that? Thanks for your videos, I enjoy your channel

[gracechivell]

My ebook is currently in Canva, can it be transferred into Adobe InDesign easily?

[henryk]

Hello! I’m wanting to self publish a colouring in book, 50 pages, bit bigger then A4. Should I print it and get them all shipped to me then upload it for sale on Amazon?

[hannahheart]

I have a coworker that’s been designing my book cover for my very first book called Enchanted Everlasting Love Bonds which is based on my favorite YouTube series called Eternal Love of dream

[facingeternity]

IF I PURCHACE ANY CURSE FROM YOU CAN I USE ANY TIME? NOW OR WITH IN TWO YEARS

[AuthorKevinCraver]

Hi! How worried should we be about all these jagoffs who are flooding Kindle with ChatGPT to game the system? I'm releasing a book in January and I'm really worried I'll get lost in all the spam books from losers.

[cljoe]

Publishing a book? I can’t even get the house of congress to add another amendment to the constitution! 😂

[DerVeet]

Should your book cover name be trademarked?

[ChairmanObama]

Who is this John Ra you keep mentioning?

[ChrisMusante]

Book cover designer... yay!! We're gonna be friends I think.