My Top 5 Self-Publishing Tips for Indie Authors (before, during, and after publishing your book!)

These tips are the five most important things I've learned as an indie that cover before, during, and after self-publishing a book as an indie author plus a bunch of smaller bonus tips for each subject. All five of these are extremely important to me personally, but there are tons more, so feel free to comment below with your biggest tips for new self-published authors too!

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TIME STAMPS:
0:35 - Creating a potential best seller (covers sell!)
2:37 - Making your book the best quality (editing!)
5:18 - Why Researching Everything is Crucial
8:05 - Best Possible Marketing You Can Do
10:34 - My Biggest Lesson Learned (& Most Valuable!)

[BethanyAtazadeh]

IN THE VIDEO:
0:35 - Creating a potential best seller (covers sell!)
2:37 - Making your book the best quality (editing!)
5:18 - Why Researching Everything is Crucial
8:05 - Best Possible Marketing You Can Do
10:34 - My Biggest Lesson Learned (& Most Valuable!)

[kalex]

It's been almost 3 years since I put out my 1st book (November 2019) and I'm still selling copies of it till this day!
I'm proud to talk about it now
I used to be shy about it but now I'm loving it

[christianburch]

Asking if anything was important or spoke to me... I feel like each one of your videos contains nuggets of advice and wisdom that all of us authors should take to heart. You're genuine and share your knowledge freely and openly. Your videos have made a world of difference with my publishing/writing. I'm on book #4 right now! Thank you for all you do and share!

[mikecook_author]

Thanks for a quick 5-tips S-P video. I had my first cover made via Fivver. After the first submission, I took a screen shot of similar books and asked him to "make it look like this". This saved me so much time that I could concentrate on the content between the cover. I am working my way up your list.

[jeanshelbybooks]

$15 for your course?? I’m in! 😀 I’m having so much fun with self publishing. And I’ve only published one book! I have my next book plus a freebie for my email list coming out in July and after that my next four are in their first draft! I’m having a blast with every step of the way. 📚📚🌟🌟🥰

[schroderrealestategroupllc]

I love your content! I just self-published my first book! Thank you so much!

[hazeldontell]

Your words about marketing were really helpful!! I'm kinda dreading the idea of marketing my book, but thinking about it as just talking about a book I love actually makes it so much less stress inducing!!

[Jennifer-gtgc]

As a newbie, I have much to learn.

My. Goodness. ;w;

[MandiGraceAuthor]

I used to be of the 'marketing is the worst' camp, but your series with Mandi Lynn helped me overcome some of that.

[najeeamurray]

That was very helpful. I definitely need to do more research about each step of the publishing process to see what fits and works for me.

[robbiegarnz]

Good tips! I think being able to sell anything via YouTube or TikTok is predicated on your followers and how engaged they are. I lived and breathed Youtube for almost 2 years but never got anywhere with it. Now you’re taking a large chunk of your life for something that 99% of the time is not going to pan out. As for TikTok I put stuff out but it’s mostly hiking or workout driven. For either I’m not sure how me changing my content to talk about my book would go over. I’m guessing I’d get buried in the algorithm

[ericarowanarts]

I needed to hear the stretching yourself too thin tip lol I want to try it ALL to see what sticks but you're right. If I don't work on making something work I'm spinning my wheels.

[storiesbydesirae]

I agree with what you think the secret is to marketing well. It can definitely help do things the right way for each particular author. Thank you for the reminders and sharing :)

[HanaEnyde]

Thank you so much for all the amazing advice, Bethany! I'm in the “research everything” phase right now (even though it's before I'm planning to self-publish the book). As an aspiring author, I find that I can get a little overwhelmed hearing advice from so many different authors. I have to constantly remind myself to take a breath and understand that building an author career takes time and patience. Loved your self-publishing tips, great content 💕
Yaaaasss, marketing and establishing a fruitful author platform are my biggest struggle at this time. Excited to check out your videos on this!
Love Jessica Brody/Writing Mastery courses - her courses were the encouragement I needed to start pushing towards making my dreams of being an author come true (through hard work and patience of course haha)! Will certainly check out your course!

[TaniasWritingRealm]

Great tips! For me definitely the "I can't do it all" was a card lesson for me to learn. And I'm still learning to not take on to much. I have a hard time saying no to things

[evelyngray]

I just bought your course with Jessica Brody (I've taken several of her courses and love them.) I can't wait to jump in!

[bardmadsen]

I often wonder how I achieved such an obscure life. The only thing that jumped out was Sleeping Beauty, my book contains Little Red Riding Hood. I've been talking on the internet since the very early 90's from ICQ to Usenet, it has been seven years that I've had a FB page and only have one 'friend' which does not talk. I'm running out of genres to test, not even science fiction historical fantasy people are interested. I could write a peer review paper, but I hear that even with credentials it is a chore. My favorite advice is to keep writing, your an author, actually I could write another, but why bother. Except for the prosperity of our species. In this genre at least it has lots of ancient stories for ideas.

[omeysalvi]

Please talk about how it is important to get a copyright for the book as recently I've read on reddit that author accounts are getting banned because unscrupulous actors are stealing their work and claiming it as their own.

[NR-rvrz]

Just found your channel and this content is very helpful.
I feel a bit overwhelmed by the speed of talking with few pauses though.
It seems common to YouTube. I'm not sure why it's the trend on YT to radid fire a barrage of information; especially when it's important things to consider.
I guess in this particular video it's not so much the speaking rate but rather that any and all pauses haven edited out so it feels like one single 14 minute long sentence.
As a viewer, I feel the brain needs a beat to pause, process and reflect after each sentence or even clause. That's how we do it in face to face conversation. Why is it different in YT videos?
Is it because the Youtuber worries that viewers will flip another video if they are given a moment to think? Asking as I'm genuinely curious.

[gamexpress]

as someone who is working on her first draft of her sequel, I still think this is a bit overwhelming, haha. Still haven't gotten used to it. Also, beta readers are good too before sending it to editors