How to BookTok! | Guide to Getting Started on TikTok, How to Do Transitions

[@BeautifullyBookishBethany]

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[@hayloumac]

Just started my booktok - I'm an indie author and was totally clueless so this video has been absolute gold for me. Thank you!!

[@kennethoverman9902]

Hey, that was a huge help. As an author of about 35 books, I'm finally moving into the personal marketing end of things. Thank you!

[@adiXionRacing]

Seriously one of the best videos I’ve seen on KZbin. Sooo informative, no lagging, you’re pleasant to watch, and I learned more in this one video than in 20 I’ve watched today. Thanks!

[@RoselinBooksOfficial]

Extremely helpful video, especially for a perfectionist like me who gets discouraged about having multiple takes. I'm just starting my TikTok so this was the BEST video for me to watch. Thank you so much for the advice and how-to's!

[@rayhollander]

Thanks, I am an introverted person with slight social anxiety, and I wanted to do something to get our of my comfort zone and interact more with the outside world event thought is virtual lol. Thanks.

[@ghanacryptogurl3574]

Wow I had the same Idea and I said the same thing to myself

[@leanna7322]

This is seriously such a great and helpful video! It was suggested to me on Google and I am surprised to see there aren't more comments and likes. You explained things so well and I appreciate you walking through the TikTok filming and editing process (which I've done, but I'm new, so it's helpful for me to see others do it). Thank you!

[@denaejackson3396]

I loved it! And thank you for doing this video. I am new to TikTok but I love reading books, I just recently finished a book and had no one to discuss the book with. I went on TikTok and searched the book and found my tribe in book tok. I was thinking of creating videos but didn’t know where to start.

[@thepapertraveler1122]

Thanks for sharing! I had no clue how ANY of the processes of a TikTok video work and am new to watching them also.

[@phoebesinclair1007]

Very helpful! Thank you for such a detailed and thoughtful video.

[@rosef.3741]

I know this video is old but im juat about to start tiktok and booktok and this was SO helpful omg

[@wyattseelig1197]

Thanks! I’m one of those authors and this was super helpful!

[@rameshnybergauthor]

Thank you for SHOWING instead of just telling---very helpful!

[@gqueirogabr]

This is great starter advice im not familiar with tiktok and i would love to get into. Hopefully this could also be a good way to get me to read more!😅

[@brittanywoodall5956]

This was beyond helpful thank you so much! I just started making tiktoks of my own, and was just using the capcut app but this helps me so much!

[@splufford]

Thanks for the video. This is really helpful for a TikTok newbie like me. All I need now is the courage to post something!

[@booksvsmovies]

props to you for editing on your phone. that looks incredibly finicky

[@vangiekitty]

I would love more videos like this! So helpful-thank you so much. ☺️

[@aoifecollins4512]

Such an amazing video! Thank you for sharing this! I’m new to posting on BookTok and this really helped ❤️ one thing that I do that might help you, or other people reading this comment is for the hashtags on the video caption, I save some hashtags in my notes so I can copy and paste them to the caption to save some time and then tweak some of them to make them appropriate for the video 😊

[@tiffanymorningstar7008]

Thank you. I miss making youtube videos but after 2 years there was so little engagement. Hoping tiktok does better.

[@al_kutahyawi]

You are awesome! Greetings from Germany :)

[@stormsitonga2412]

Thank you I just started booktok and this will help me

[@Queennumen]

I’m a fanfiction writer who started writing my debut novel and I want to grow my reader audience to lead people to my debut novel when it’s out but my tiktoks hasn’t been engaging

[@VanessaMarieBooks]

I just got a tik tok account this week, and I'm addicted all ready. So many funny videos on here. I don't think I'll ever create content for tik tok cause that just seems like too much extra work, but who knows, 🤷🏽‍♀️never say never. Right now, I'm just enjoying being a viewer. By the way, I'm still not much of a romance reader, but the way you did that book review is really making me want to check out that book. My only question is what's the pacing like? I don't do well with slow paced books.

[@mackenziebelousek7521]

Omg you made this look so easy

[@briaquinlan9497]

This was so stinking helpful. I just shared it with some of my other author friends who want to dive into tiktok. Thanks for simplifying it!

[@whimsydearest]

I just started a tiktok, so this is so helpful. Thank you!! 💕

[@wanjiruwarama2016]

A fantastic video. I had no idea one can make such videos in such a short time. Blame me on age. Do you do nonfiction books? And if so, how can I get you make a review for me that I can use on my social media?

[@INKNOTBLOOD]

This is SO HELPFUL! Thank you! I've been pretty intimidated by the idea of learning a new platform. Who are your favorite BookTokkers?

[@INKNOTBLOOD]

Seriously, this made me feel so much more confident! I have now officially posted my first BookTok!

[@kimtait4191]

I'm just starting out on Tiktok and this video couldn't have come at a better time! I don't know if I'll be able to post content more than once a day but I'm hoping to work up to three times as I get more familiar with the process. I'm such an introvert that I'll probably freeze like a deer in the headlights but practice makes perfect, right!

[@kamryncane5359]

Thank you so much for doing this vid. New indie author and I’ve been wanting to learn how to do content for my TikTok. This has been super helpful🥰 now following you on TT😊

[@FIT2BREAD]

Rats, missed the live show! Will have to watch the replay :)

[@MargaretPinard]

Such a great tutorial! I haven't tried filming in tiktok for a while....but filming and then using the video...but then I was having trouble editing the clips, so I will now try to go back to filming! lol

[@sallybartlett681]

Thank you this helped orient me!

[@readmorelk499]

Thank you very much. Love from Sri Lanka!

[@megchronisauthor]

This is a great video! Thanks so much, from this Gen X author!!

[@MPMcDonald]

Thank you for making this.

[@Bobbypinker]

This was great. I've never done TikTok and was wondering about how people edit for those transitions.

[@amberbarnes2868]

This was helpful, thank you! Could you tell me how to add smaller pictures to a video as it goes on?

[@sylviamayhew8652]

Thank you so much. I found this very useful

[@blfrankwriter]

This was amazing and very helpful. I love the background music that you used for the editing. What is it called and where can I find it?

[@Amoscrts]

Thank you! This was so helpful!

[@kendrachitman1443]

Thanks for sharing

[@elkapalka]

Thank you.

[@RKStumblingbear]

Thank you! This was interesting.

[@knottygirlreviews9149]

This is helpful. I'm doing TikTok because I suck at editing lol.

[@johnsharon3587]

Been wanting to start a booktube and a book-tok channel but I hardly have hard-copy books, book-tokers and book-tubers seem to only use hard-copies for their videos. Kinda makes me hesitant.

[@speakyourmindinEnglish]

Do you stop the video between transitions or just pause it? If you stop it, how do you connect them?

[@cottagehomeandhealth]

So to do book tok You just put in the hashtag booktok? thank you

[@brandymarks8329]

Cannot find an app for booktok on my iPhone

[@JanetSchwind]

Do I have to start a "bookish tiktok account" or is it really just my basic tiktok account in which I post booktok videos?

[@trishameloling2367]

How you do this if you gonna just gonna reccomend ebooks

[@lispeeVentures]

Where would you get the review from?

[@krislyncolombini2833]

Can you explain how I would add a photo of a book I read from a Kindle!

[@dcanaan]

Very informative, Is there any possibility of obtaining a transcript from you (a gorgeous woman)

[@LouellaBry]

Just joined tiktok and my publisher wants me to do a video about my book. Can I somehow adapt the 1- minute trailer I made?

[@kellymarshall9969]

What is the software to download for editing?

[@genevievejones-edman5454]

Darn...why this lady takes forever to get to the point

[@paulinebutcherbird]

I've got my video on TikTok and when I tried to get it on to Booktok it ended up next to the one I've already put on TikTok so I've got two the same on TikTok. Did I miss something? How do I get it on to Booktok?

[@jennifercoulter4962]

Thank you for the instructions. So helpful!!! I am a librarian and would love to make Book Toks but had no idea how to start. Now I think I'm ready to give a try.

[@MeMyDogAndBooks]

this is sooo helpful - thank you!

[@erethesun]

Those transitions were GREAT. Nicely done! As someone who is JUST starting on TikTok (literally tonight), it's nice to see how relatively simple it is to make some cool content.

[@theeclecticbookshelfgirl]

Thank you for this. Just getting started. I want to figure out the easiest way to make the tiktoks that are just the book with text around highlighting your favorite parts.

[@k.williams9256]

This was an amazing informative video one I really needed. Thank you for sharing...you really put a lot of work in teaching this video and you executed flossly. This video will get me started thank you so much 💜 💗 💕

[@omeyettebaguette1968]

Thank you! You just shed a light on one of the biggest mystery on tiktok😂

[@SusanColetta]

Thank you so much!!! I love booktok, but feel so incompetent when it comes to making videos. Your video helps a lot. Question: How do you add the text answers people point to in the Intro to BookTok videos?

[@user19374name]

This is so helpful! Thank you

[@halimarahman8570]

Thank you x

[@NewnanCarnegieLibrary]

Question. After you have edited the whole video can you go back and invert the video or do you have to do that when you record. For some reason the inverted filter dropped for the last three transitions and I didn't notice until I was done :-(

[@guillaumemaurice3503]

Thank you for the video that is very useful information. I had just started to have a Tiktok account & I am just learning how to use it. I am a fictional author & I write different genres but, my main genre is Erotic-Comedy (i.e. Funny Erotica). I just need to see how to promote this carefully on Tiktok as it is adult-related.