First time self publishing a poetry book! Talk through my experience & advice + Ingramspark issue
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2021
- WHERE TO FIND ME-
Instagram @katrisharose & @katrisharosedotcom
Website / blog katrisharose.com
Hi loves! This video is a combination of a full talk through as well as little things I learned while fumbling through the self publishing process last year. My book was a poetry book and I went through Ingramspark, although quite a bit of the advice here is general and I think it might be especially helpful to first time authors or fellow antsy perfectionists who would like to hear of a genuine experience self publishing.
We are going to go over pretty much everything, from perspective to have going to the process, expectations & examples, to gathering your poems (if poetry,) & organizing them, formatting your interior, creating a cover, using illustrations, my Ingramspark issue / experience, marketing yourself, presale information, pricing your book, and even self distribution info.
Something I didn’t go over for whatever reason was editing! Please make sure your book gets edited as well!
Buckle up! Time stamps are below for your convenience :)
TIME STAMPS
1:14 Finish your book!
2:00 My writing background at the time of publishing & to be careful when you look at other authors for comparison. ( be fair to yourself)
4:21 the gathering process & your books length
5:51 expectations and variety in examples (poetry books)
9:41 organizing your pieces & formatting
12:16 interior detail / theme / design
13:11 Illustrations (if applicable)
16:25 Ingramspark doesn’t take T3 fonts... flatten your cover
18:13 picking your publisher
19:38 my issue / experience with ingramspark
23:00 marketing your book
24:07 presale info
25:09 pricing your book
28:15 self distribution info & experience
WHERE TO FIND ME-
Instagram @katrisharose & @katrisharosedotcom
Website / blog katrisharose.com
Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions.
My channel is new and I plan on posting over here more- I’m a writer, artist, blogger, mama, I do beauty stuff sometimes, I talk... who knows what I’ll do. But I appreciate your support!
Like/ comment / subscribe!
Just so everyone knows, my writing and blog Instagram username has changed to @ katrisharosedotcom ! please be sure to follow me there ♥ My personal page has a lot of beauty + wellness content if that's your thing too, and that's just @ katrisharose 😇
My first book was over 300 poems. But the thing was it was poetry I wrote through high school. I wanted all those poems in one place. But moving forward my books will only contain 35-45 poems each.
Why is will you only publish 35 to 45 poems for each book?
Thank you so much for this. I've been writing poetry in journals for years now. And some friends are encouraging me in a book. And I'm grateful i found your video. Thank you.
I am so excited for you! Best of luck to you and thanks so much for watching! You’ll do great :)
I never listen to a long video -- I skip. But not yours :) You are so nice to listen to. You come off as very humble and honest. Thank you for the video and God bless!! I am writing a collection of poems and you just inspired me to really push this to completion.
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been debating on publishing a poetry book since I have so many poems on my google drive. This definitely helped me come up with a plan to publish my book.
This makes me so happy to hear! Thank you so much for watching and commenting, and best of luck to you! :) So exciting!
As a first-time soon-to-be author, this video was super helpful. Thank you for your kindness, honesty, and useful tips, Katrisha ❤️!
Hi Katrisha!👋
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience and advice on self-publishing. Congrats on self-publishing your poetry book!
I truly apologize for your experience working with our customer service. We are working to better ourselves all the time and are making a big note of this. I apologize that our team went into deep industry terms and standards as oppose to speaking more compassionately while helping to find a solution for these problems.
We've recently brought on a lot of new great team members and we really look forward to delivering the more personal and thoughtful customer service every indie author and publisher so deserves. You're all amazing!
If you have any other worries please reach out to us and we look forward to turning around your experience with us.
-Syd 📚💙😊
Thank you so much for the help! I feel more confident about finishing up my book and embarking on this amazing, worthwhile journey of publishing it :) hopefully all goes well
Thank you for the time and purity in your delivery and knowledge. I appreciate it as I'm currently on this new journey.
Oh I’m so glad you found it helpful! Thank you for watching and best of luck to you! I’m sure you will do amazing 😊
I’ve been writing poetry for a little while now and have been contemplating how to publish it. I’m so glad I found your video! Thank you for the advice!!
Thanks for taking the time to make this cohesive video Queen! You’re appreciated 🙌🏾
Thank you so so much! Thank you for watching love!
By far the most helpful video I've found on this process.
Probably one of the most helpful videos on this topic! Thank you 🙏🏽📝
That means so much to hear! thank you for your support and watching! 😇
Very helpful and inspiring, Queen! Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
And girl you are gorgeous !!
Aw shucks! Wow thank you so much! I appreciate it love! :)
Thank you for sharing your experience and your lessons learnt. It was very informative, and appreciated.
Thanks for this! Good luck with it all🎉
That was a great spread sis 👌🏾 candidly thorough 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯 Thank you got this information. All the best of success with your book(s), and may everything work out for you all in your best favor and interest. #PeaceLoveandLight
Thank you so much! Just published my poetry book and I’m like “now what?” Found you! 🙏🏽❤️✝️👣🌄
Thank you so much Mom!!!
I love you, Beautiful. WE LOVE YOU. Thank you for your honesty !!!
These were such good tips! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! ❤
Yay! I’m so glad it helped 💜 thanks for watching!
This is great advice! I'm working on a book right now and this video has been really helpful! Thank you!
Im excited for you!! :)
Great info! Just what I needed. Thank you!
You are so appreciated! thank you for watching love! :)
Katrisha, thank you! Best wishes to you! This was helpful and interesting.
Thank you so much!💜 same to you!
Thank you so much for this value and sharing your experiences!
Thank you for this video and insights shared. Much success on your journey.
Same to you! 💞💞 thank you!
Thank you for this! It’s so helpful 💜
Thank you so much for this video! It was very helpful ✨
Thank you so much for watching! :) I'm glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much, Katrisha!
Thank you thank you for your detailed informative and so pleasant video. I have been searching for information to self publish a collection of poems and you made it super simple. I just ordered your Remission on Amazon! Neither here no there but you are also adorable.
♥️Thank you for watching & supporting my book! I’m so glad it was helpful to you, good luck on your publishing journey!
Thank you so much! I am on my journey! Stay Encouraged
new sub working on my poetry book very helpful
Thank you so much for watching! Glad to hear it was helpful! :)
Love this video, thank you for sharing! Do you still have the 50 poem books that were misprinted? If so, as an artist, you can paint the covers/backs of them. You can market them as limited edition, hand painted, signed copies and sell them for more. I got this idea from when I ordered samples of shirts to sell, and they were misprinted. I added hand painted embellishments to the shirts, then sold them!
Thank God she speaks truth. You really helped ❤️
Oh I'm so glad! Thank you for watching :)
Thank you for sharing your experience ❤
This was so helpful! thank you
Of course! Thank you for watching ♥️♥️
Great Video! Useful Information! Thank U😌❤
thankyou learned alot Im on my 5th book researching new christian self publishers and thinking about doing my own distrubution again praying looking .
Ty so much for sharing this love, very helpful tips!
Thank you for watching!💜
Hi I just ordered your book can't wait to get it
That is so kind! Thank you for your support and I hope you enjoy it :)
Thank you for sharing. Found it very helpful.
Thank you for watching and so glad it was helpful! ❤
So helpful and thank you.
Thank you for watching! 💗
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for your support and for watching! 😇
Keep Inspiring Queen
Thank you! 🥲❤
your art is amazing wow
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much! ♥️
Thanks for the advice ♥️♥️
Happy to help! Thanks so much for watching :)
Awesome video, I just published my book on kdp and the customer service is the same. Definitely trying to figure out the marketing scheme. Thanks for the advice!
Congrats on your book! and thank you for watching & commenting! :)
Hi Katrisha, I gained a whole lot of information here. Thank you for sharing these writing and publishing tips from your experience. I've also followed you on IG. lovely page you have for your writings. And lastly, you have been blessed with beauty. 🌹
super helpful. Thank you
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Admire people that come up with a plan and actually follow through executing it.
Thank you! I appreciate you watching :)
I really appreciate what you had to offer with this process. I've been searching for the "how to do's" and I think is the most upfront process I've come in contact with. I am thinking about publishing 30 poems for my very first book. Thank you for the information presented. Greatly appreciated. To add, did you submit for copyright prior to publishing?
Thanks for the great advise.
You are so welcome!♥️
this was so helpful!
thank you so much for taking the time to share all of these tips. I’m kind of concerned about marketing (i don’t use social media- going on 2 years without social media) and i’m just starting to get more comfortable uploading to youtube. i was thinking maybe a blog, but then again how would people find me besides word of mouth (questions i ask myself)!
congratulations on selling out on your book and your writing journey! #WritersUnite
I wish you much continued success, prosperity, and Joy 💞💐
thank you for watching!
Hey- if you found my video here, there will be people who find your videos as well, and anything else you post about your book! You got this. Good luck to you & appreciate your support here! :)
and same to you, thank you for the kind words 🥺💗
Thank you for this great video ! I use scrivener to write and organize my poems, I was fed up of having to copy paste and I love how this software allows me to click and drag to reorganize everything :) in my country, if you find an editor, you would get only about 8% of the price before taxes, which I think is a real roberry, hence why I think authors should more consider the self-publishing path, not even mentioning the very low sells that are being recorded for poetry. As if everyone was thinking that poets had to share publicly everything on the internet, as if it wasn't a real book compared to fiction (this idea drives me nuts sometimes) ... I'm not looking to sell though, only to leave something behind the speed of time
Thank you very informative. 👍
keep up the great work, thanks
I appreciate you! Thank you!
Thank you for this informative and funny video :)
Great video 👍
Thank you for watching! ☺️
Great video. Very informative. Did you submit your poetry manuscript to literary journals and/or small presses before self-publishing? What did you learn from that experience? 16:19
Thank you for this you gave me a lot to look forward to and great information on publishing my first poetry book I’m even more excited now than I was prior to watching this…I only have one question…did you start your own publishing LLC before the publication process???…I’m asking because I want the proceeds of my book to be donated to charity and I don’t want companies to get tax write-offs for it…
Thank you for the information! How did you add your illustrations? I wanted to use my own hand drawn illustrations but I don’t know how to add them to the book ): I used pages but I can always transfer it to docs if I need to
Hi! So I don't have any experience using pages yet, but what I did was scan in my hand-drawn images on my printer/scanner (I just have a cannon printer/scanner combo,) and then I used the insert> insert image> upload image options on google docs. From there I moved and sized the images as needed, also went into the image options to mess with text wrapping. I hope that's helpful!
Best of luck to you :)
Thank you so much for this informative, helpful video! How many copies of your book have you sold from your website, if you don’t mind sharing. Also, thank you for sharing your profit margin; that gives me some perspective.
Would you recommend a “special edition” hardback version for the first few buyers?
"I'm going to ask you very nicely to finish your book" me not having as much as one page complete👁👄👁 but in all seriousness I really appreciate this, it was very insighful and inspirational🙏
love that! lol I was really calling myself out with that line but it resonated with so many of us!! I am so glad this was helpful on your self-publishing journey♥️
@@katrisharose lol I needed the push it's appreciated, I have a terrible habit of wanting to build a million Rome's overnight and barely seeing anything through, this one I have to lock in on fr though🤞
If you do linework or a watercolor painting by hand, how do you transfer that to word?
What did you make your royalties at?
What about the paper that lists all of the copyright info? Also, did oyu use an editor? and do you have an editor that you can refer?
Hey there! Ingram spark automatically adds that page into the book in the very back. I edited and I also had my partner edit it 2x. (He’s super good with that type of thing,) I haven’t found any typos in there 🤞🏽 but I WOULD hire an editor if you don’t have a a friend or family member who is capable of editing!
Ok.
Hey Katrisha! thank you for the video. Towards the end you mention you have self published but I see your book on Amazon? I was wondering how that is possible?
Hi Lexis! So you don't have to self publish through amazon to be sold on their site, if that makes sense. IngramSpark (the self publishing service I used,) makes your book available through a variety of distributers- amazon included, who can pick your book up to sell from their store. So I am on Amazon the same way I am on Target, or Indie Books.
I hope that helps! And thanks for watching :)
Just starting to write, but I feel like I need to see videos like this first. 😂
No I totally get it! I was the same way lol hopefully this helped! 😇
how long did it take you to get your book ready like the writing + editing stage?
Hey there! The writing stage is hard to say because I was "writing" this book before I knew I was writing this book- it's a collection of writing over many years, I just cherry-picked some of my favorite pieces. It was a combination of combing through old writing and gathering what I wanted to include, as well as adding new pieces. It took about 9 months of work once I set my intention that I was going to create and publish a book. But everyone's process is different! Be patient with yourself and take as long as you need :)
how do you actually get the illustrations on your actual poem? How do you transfer it over it you're having an illustrator do it.
whether the pics are your own or from an illustrator, you'd want them to be saved as separate/individual images and then I just added them to the books interior document. I have some images on the same page as words and some are on their own pages- upload and place the images where you want them and then change the image formatting to accommodate text on top, on bottom, tightly around the image., etc.
I’m starting my poetry book and I have a goal before the summer over to finish my poetry book
Best of luck
how is it going?
@@nicofrmto good I finished the book
@@KingNobletv1 that's what I like to hear, good work, I just got the inspiration to start mine this month hopefully I'll have it done before next year🤝🙏
What about copywrite ?
i am auto-editing my poetry book at this point, it has more than 300 hundred poems (pages) and they are hand-picked..i am just so scared it won't sell because in my country being an author is rarer than rareness itself
Good luck to you! I would advise getting yourself out there online as much as possible to reach a wider audience. And regardless of the sales turnout, I hope you are proud of your book and the accomplishment of self publishing! :)
I Photos from Pinterest public domain?
how do i put copyright on my book, and where to i put that in the book and like all the other information, like… idk, this is my first time writing and publishing a book do i’m very confused
Copyright is not something I had to manually do anything about, Ingramspark automatically includes a copyright page within the book! I don't think you have to do anything additional there unless you have special circumstances/legal concerns. Sorry, I don't have more info than that!
You seem to a nice humble encouraging person I like your approach and personalities I would support you, please let me know your book name on Amazon
Oh thank you so much! My book is "Remission- A Collection of Writing" by Katrisha Rose :) I appreciate you watching!
SO did you go through Ingram Spark and Amazon or just Ingram Spark?
Hi, just Ingram Spark!
Hello
I just wrote my first book and I plan on self publishing. Please I have a few questions, do I need to buy a copyright online and get an ISBN before self publishing ?
And can I print it out without it being sent to me by Amazon ?
Hi there! The answers to your questions depend on who your publisher will be-
If Amazon- I don’t think you need to get an ISBN in advance, I hear they actually have a built in option for them to purchase and connect an ISBN to your book
If Ingram spark- yes, first, separately purchase an ISBN and bring that to their website.
For your second question, I only know from my experience you would purchase a copy of your own book at the end of the process in order to see it physically. It would be at discounted, wholesale rate. (It cost me around ~$5 to buy one of my own books.
As for Amazon, not sure because I did not use them. Sorry! Hope what I could answer was helpful! Good luck to you!
And for the second question, I’m answering for what you’d do on IngramSpark
Thanks
Hello, sorry for bothering you again but what's the payment method for Ingramspark ? Payoneer, PayPal....
I'm considering Ingramspark too but I don't know how to go about it.
Ingram Spark attributed my book to another author.
Loved the video, would love to connect!
Hii! Thank you so much for this one. Can you make a video on how to self destribute books? There's no video on youtube for that 🥺🥲
10 more poems to be 100
Pl read the description of my book 'Miracles of Isolation by shyamapada Dey and write review with 5 stars and oblige me by doing so I am your regular listener
I'm actually really surprised to hear that you make 5$ per book. I've seen a lot of author's only making like 2.50$. It's really sad, honestly.
This will be my first time writing a book. Could you give me some advice and pointers? Do you have IG
Are you looking to self publish?
She gives really good advice in the video