self publishing help pls

Kimberlee

so! a few weeks ago I realised I have enough poems to actually publish a collection I have been working on for a little over a year, and have disappeared in to a rabbit hole of typing up and editing and collating.

and now it's actually something that could resemble a book once I sort out cover art and ... I have zero idea where I go from here.

those of you who have self published (bree, trae, looking at you ... anyone else who has experience as well pls!), what platforms do you use? any and all tips and tricks and info welcome and greatly appreciated!

Trae Dorn

So the big one is Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. They have the best rates, and the print quality is pretty solid.

For selling on Amazon, they're the way to go.

The problem is that even though Amazon offers expanded distribution to other stores, other booksellers may not want to ever stock from a printer owned by Amazon. Which is why I also sell my books through IngramSpark. IngramSpark doesn't have as good rates as Amazon when you sell there, but their rates are about the same when you sell through other book stores.

So I do both. I put it on Amazon and then choose not to use Amazon's expanded distribution. Then, after the listing was live on Amazon, I set up the book on IngramSpark (you'll want to do things in that order so Amazon doesn't pick up the IngramSpark listing first)

Kimberlee

thank you! I will look in to both - amazon for ease and Ingram for additional distribution 😁

meep! Various Fuckeries will be out soon! perhaps sooner than I thought- I got put on a round of prednisone today (yay asthma) and for me, the side effects are Insomnia and Creativity. so I might end up tying up all the loose ends over the next few days.

I dare not do adminy things in this state. but I might have all the creativey things done and ready for adminy things come beginning of April!