🌟 Everything You Need To Know to SELF PUBLISH a POETRY Book 🌟
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2023
- So you wrote a collection of poetry, now what? Here I will break down the steps to self-publish a poetry book on Amazon KDP.
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Ive been writing poems and short stories on Instagram for a few years now and thought about publishing them into a collection. Not even to sell to a lot of people but just doing it for myself. It’s all really intimidating and scary but this helped a lot! Thank you so much and I wish you success!
I learnt a lot more information in this 7 minutes than what I did in the past few weeks, trying to figure out how to go about publishing. Thank you, Elizabeth, very informative and helpful!
Glad that I was able to help 😊 and that you found the information helpful!
I want to do a self published poetry book. I'm glad I came this way
i return to this video every few weeks as inspiration to continue on my book lol
That warms my heart! Sending you strength to keep going!
Did u publish it ?
@@k_____007 Not yet, back again today for more inspiration lol.
Self-published 3 poetry books, and this is what I do (partly, I don't buy author copies, I run previews and it works out pretty well.) This video is quite informative and helpful.
I'll be taking a look for your book and putting it on my TBR pile.
Thank you for the valuable information. Congratulations on your book, I am in the process of completing my Manuscript.
Best of luck with the process! Finishing the manuscript is a huge achievement!
Absolutely the best how-to I've seen; no fluff, direct, honest and professional in every way.
I would like a little bit more information about your ROUGH DRAFT. It looks like a hard back cover . . .
I appreciate your compliments,thank you. At first I thought I wanted to produce a hard cover with a different platform then I decided on kdp after
Love this, thank you so much for your insight! I was wondering if you would be open to sharing what coordinates for the margins and everything you used in indesign?
Thank you for your advice and tips. 😊
Very clear detailed explanation of the process you took and it is much appreciated.❤️👑
Happy to share what I learned to help facilitate other poets getting their work published!
Finally something helpful! Thank you so much!
Happy to provide help!
this video is very helpful. You helped me get thru writing and trying to finish my poetry book :)
Glad I could help! When are you publishing?
Very helpful i want more formatting information and video's thank you ❤
Thanks for sharing very helpful & informative
Glad it was helpful!
This video was super helpful and made me think about some things I didn’t even realize I needed to be thinking about! Thank you for sharing this! I also really enjoyed your personality, so I will also be checking out your book!
Really glad that you were able to learn some new things! :) Good luck with your project!
@@Elizabethvanderblank thank you so much! I did purchase your book btw and so far SO good 🩷
@@youngbaggage3152 🤗 glad you are enjoying the book!
Thank you for this!
My pleasure!
Thank you so so much for this!!
You’re welcome!
this helped SOOOOOOO much!!
Glad the video helped!
Thank you. On to the adventure!
Woohoo! It’s an adventure indeed.
I am getting very close to upload to my first poetry book to KDP. This video has been very informative and inspirational. Thank you 🙏🏻
Very exciting!! Best of luck & glad that this was helpful for you
Thank you so much for sharing. I've been writing since I was 10. I can't wait to finally publish my work. How many poems are in your book?
Straight forward informative video, thank you! I have a question, I saw your book in Barnes & Noble site. Is it s separate process to get it there, or once you are on KDP, you also can get your book sold in B&N? Thanks again!
Thank you very much Elizabeth . I am a poetry writer. .
You’re welcome! Where can we find your work?
i liked this video
Thank you! 🤗
I'm in the process of self publishing my first poetry chapbook in kdp!
You got this! Best of luck! Keep us updated
Thank you
You are welcome!
Thank you. I’ve wanted to write a poem book since I was 9. I want to give it a shot. Also, I need something to distract my mind so why not work on this. Idk lol😅
Do I have to merge all my poems into one word document to format them myself? If so how do I do that?
I have not done it . I will get to do it .Do you mean a lot editing cut paste , More editing.
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Thanks for the tips , around how much did it cost you until you got to the final stage?
What do you mean?
A lot of valuable information here in your video thank you so much. When KDP has inconsistency in printing will they refund you and then fix their mistake?
That’s such a great question and I’ve been pondering it now for a few days…
Honestly, you won’t know; because it directly ships to the customer. So you might never find out. And the customer might not know it’s a mistake?
Could order myself author copies, but they are typically all consistent in a batch. So that won’t tell you much. And then I have a lot of my books that I’d have to sell locally haha
I assume Amazon has a good return policy though. So my guess is that it would not be an issue
love the Facinator (hat)...
🫶🏼 I have a deep love of vintage hats, thank you for noticing!
My grandmother had a dresser with a "hat cupboard" I have her old mahogany dresser but oh how I wish I had her hats...
@@poetsgarden1That is so cool to have a hat cupboard! The dream :) The antique mahogany dressers are also great, so much storage.
We live in an older home & I "inherited" some of the hats & boxes with the house. Which in turn brings joy since I love bringing back life & care to forgotten/unappreciated items.
@@Elizabethvanderblank I love the look and feel of old things... Your name looks Dutch..I am 50% Dutch..great minds think alke
@@poetsgarden1 Patina adds to the charm 🤗 I would possibly claim "honorary Dutch" via my husband & lived in the Netherlands for quite a few years.
Need the steps with this were you from
This was very helpful, Ive never thought that I would write poetry, but I just started doing it as a cope mechanism, and I ended up liking what I wrote, I have few poems and some short stories, kind of inspired by Edgar Alan Po. I hope to self publish it this year when I write few more! :)
Do you know if publishing it with a made up name is gonna make any legal problems or something, for example if my book makes money and I wont be able to get it since it's not my real name 😆
Never say never 😉 congratulations on your new found enjoyment with poetry!
I love Poe!
Not official legal advice: don’t use someone else’s name for your pen name, kdp asks for a lot of info for payouts such as your real name & social security number & bank info etc. So that’s arranged on the platform.
Locking it into a play list, i started poetry this year soon to reach my 33rd poem and was thinking of making a book. Do you feel that a good range or would that be too short for a poetry book
For your first time, it should be fine depending on how long your poems are! When I published my poetry book “I’ve decided to love myself” by Iman Mohsin- my book was created with short snippets and poems with roughly 35pages. I created it on Google docs and contacted a publisher. It was such a surreal experience to see my book be published! I absolutely loved every bit of it! So go for it! Best of luck!! 😄
I'm grateful for the inspiring story and support. I definitely have to experience it.
That is a great question!
Personally struggled with the length of the book & feeling if it was “good enough” or “long enough” it was a huge hurdle!
Eventually, I realized that if I tried to force it or make poems just to add length it stifled the creative process.
Long story short, if it intuitively feels like it is ready, it probably is! You get to decide and determine if you feel like the feelings / message has been conveyed.
@amoonslove Congratulations on your book!
@@Elizabethvanderblank Thank you tremendously for the response, this is wonderful feedback. Appreciate how to the point and informative your video was, whilst offering a natural and genuine sense of humor. Definitely going to re-watch and polish the gems you've given before selling my jewels. Truly a blessing to have seen this and your response came in perfect timing, thanks again as it was 3 weeks old and you still responded. Got a supporter in me, hope to see much more from you. Planning to tap in with some of your reads as well.
Peace Love & Light, best wishes and many miracles
The complex nature of power structures
The qualitative analysis of moral paralysis
Converging in a multitude of administrative substructures
You could spend decades putting into words
what is immediately apparent in pictures
Compared to men
women are fundamentally lesser
My weakest arguments are stronger
than the strongest arguments of a nutty professor
Professional second-guessers
Subject to administrative pressures
Political correctness amid a general reluctance to explain
why black communities in particular
are picture-perfect portraits of pain
But is there a charge for the printing and materials used to make the books? Do they actually create physical copies that get mailed out?
Yes, you pay them for the service to print and ship. Which is charged as a portion of the sales price.
i kept hearing KDP as Katie P and kept wondering who that is
Trauma came in different ways
Karma spun from ancient days
At the heavens praying up in space.......
Encoded in my DNA
Love and hate within the frame
twisted in it's rails I train
and could it all just be a game......?
....could I then hold back this tear
Reverse my heart and what it feels
heal this double helix strand that's peeled
What is truth and what is real?
Traveling through time but what if_
time does not exist
just a dream inside the mist
Pull my covers 'for a nightly kiss_and.......
(TELL ME OF THIS TIME TRAVLER'S STORY)
Signed by,
~Ronald D. Write~
2023
Interesting. Informative. Don't use a size 12 Font? That is the first time I ever heard that said.
Once you see it (size 12) you cannot under it
Grandparents everywhere are only buying the Kindle copies
Can your books still end up in bookstores if you publish on kdp? I want to publish like this but I had a vision of seeing my book in bookstores
Depends if you participate in KDP select. If not, you have freedom. If yes, you’ll be limited.
There’s ton of info on this on the internet
Formatting is very difficult
Thank you. We're the poems in your book all within the same genre? Or was it a collection of random poetry?
They were loosely around the same theme, then divided in to subsections that were related. Much of my editing was focused around creating some kind of flow & order to the poems, so that separately they were there, but also contributing to the entire theme & order of the book. I eliminated completely non related poems.
@@Elizabethvanderblank Thank you.
What's a good number of poems for your book 📚
First, I think it depends how long the poems are. If they are long or short format, the numbers would be different. The best advice is use other poetry books as a reference for about how long they are, then you can plan accordingly for the length. I personally preferred around 130-210 pages.
What’s the size of your author’s copy book?
5x8 in. - it is the size of the book & author’s copy. I chose this because I liked that size 😊
Is it Iranian wallpaper? ❤
Looks similar to my aunt's house in southern Turkey.
Can you tell me more about Iranian wallpaper 👀 that sounds beautiful!
New topic to research since I’m already a massive rug enthusiast.
@@Elizabethvanderblank my aunt in Adana had similar looking furniture and wallpaper. Wallpaper was bought from an Iranian guy who moved to Turkey after marrying a woman in Adana and opened a interior design store, selling wallpapers, light fixtures etc. Adana was the city where I started writing my first poems, early 1990's
Thank you for sharing! ☺️ That sounds lovely, I love beautiful lighting, wallpaper, & furniture. Did the surroundings of the city inspire you to write?
The book she wrote ranks in 3 millionth place on Amazon. Ummm...not sure how that really plays in her favor. Why write at all with such a dismal showing?
Thank you for your opinion. In my opinion art is not about sales & rankings, it is about creating. It’s interesting that metrics & numbers are benchmarks some people prioritize. If I were number one in sales why would I encourage competition with other people publishing their work?
ok well i thought you were trying to make money from your writings. but the poetry is nice.
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Do you have a video on different format ideas for projects? My team loved some of the boxed in poems. Would love to see how you did that @@Elizabethvanderblank
Not cool. It took over 2000 attempts for Edison to get the lightbulb right. Should he have stopped?! Keep your comments to yourself.