Reply to Self publishing, worth the effort?

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "Self publishing, worth the effort?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here: I'm deciding between Ingram Spark and KDP [/quote]

You need to do both: KDP for Amazon distribution and IS for everywhere else. Yes, IS will distribute to Amazon, but they ship very slowly for those sales and routinely show books out of stock.

Has the book gone through multiple rounds of editing? Can you afford a professional illustrator? Do you have library and school contacts for marketing? I am a huge proponent of self-publishing, but children's books are a different breed.[/quote]

I can't answer these questions without outing myself, but it's a very niche type of work. My friend like it. I don't even know where to start shipping to editors honestly. [/quote]

Trust me, you won't out yourself, but ok.

Point is, if you're going to do it on your own, you need to make sure the book resembles the traditional alternative as much as possible. That means editing, professional artwork, your own ISBN, etc. [/quote]
Op here. I guess if I'm planning to publish it, I shouldn't be trying to keep it a secret online.

I wrote a children's book against idolatry. A very early draft was originally posted as "Smash, Burn, Crash, Idols in the Trash" on my Substack.

It is the first religious children's book for all monotheist Jews, Muslims, Christians. Strongly against idolatry, with no religious references whatsoever, I have redone the artwork and made new artwork so that every page is now illustrated.

Ideally, I'd like to publish it as a board book.

I have PDF and docx versions of the completed book. I purchased ISBN numbers for a print and e book through Ingram Spark. My understanding is that I now own those numbers and can use them on Amazon DKP.

Things that are holding me back:

1. Lack of professional eyes to look at it and ensure that I formatted it correctly. Given that I've never done this before, I must have made some mistakes, despite my best efforts.

2. Sensitivity checker. I think I have done a good job of writing a funny, seriously opposed to idolatry book that won't insult anyone and will amuse people of many monotheistic faiths. And obviously I'm not into being super politically correct to the point of being boring. But if there was ever a situation where a sensitivity checker was needed, this would be it.

3. Neither IS nor KDP will print a board book, and i think my book needs to be a board book. I continue to research this. One option I'm considering is KDP for a general release and privately printing like 100 copies for myself, and making those available from myself directly.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics