How to Self Publish Your Book | Step by Step 2021

Self publishing your own book can be a very empowering adventure! I am a self-published author myself and I decided to go that route on my own so I could be in control of the marketing, where it's going and of course the profits. I guess you can say I am a bit of a control freak. In today's video we are going into a loose guide on How to Self Publish Your Book | Step by Step 2021 Specifically on Amazon!
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[@NiaMSnow]

I watched two other videos and in those videos, both women bragged about this and that and did NOT provide essential vital information! I found you.. and my goodness the GEMS you're providing are major and so appreciative. Thank you for not gatekeeping and authentically helping.. When I begin to tell you I'm so grateful for this video, I am. I thank you so kindly! My book should be out in 2023. I'll be writing a Memoir of my life that introduces my adoption, homelessness, and overcoming it and much more! 😊

[@mrsmk3444]

How can I get a copy of that book

[@RetiredLovingIt]

Self published two books. Always a learning experience!

[@bricoley]

Can't wait to start writing my books! Thank you so much for this! I swear you are a God send girl! Keep blessing us with all if your wonderful ideas. Going to rewatch this as I write this book!

[@sosexymagazinerobinwatkins8467]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Love your style Kat! You put it so succinctly. Thank you so much for your sharing

[@pineapplepizza4016]

Getting someone to edit your book is the best bet, but good editors cost a lot of money. I'm on a tight budget, and my budget is zero. It's hard for me to justify that expense when I may never recoup the loss. So, I've done everything myself.

[@mercurymay39]

I've been waiting for this topic! So informative, can't wait for next week!!

[@dorothybraxton1241]

Kat, you inspire me so much! I'm so glad you're back! I thank God for you! You just put the pieces together for "how" to get authorship done! You also inspired me with some new ideas! Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to next week!

[@buildanadventure]

This is so helpful and encouraging! Thank you! I'm publishing my first book of poetry and I feel alone in this work. Thank you for breaking it down and making all of this approachable! 💕-Ang

[@kandyfloss717]

Congratulations Kat! You are a godsend I literally just watched one of your videos and am so impressed with your content! Its all relevant and helpful to me thank u new sub from🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@artsybluecat]

Looking forward to the next segment! Thank you for all your advice and info

[@mamacillabudgets]

Wow thank you for this advice. I have been dipping my toes but didn’t know which route to take. Thank you again!

[@leaharrr5708]

I love you and your spirit of sharing all this great info. Keep it up! Thank you :)

[@BarlowJacob]

I'm excited to watch this one. I've been considering this.

[@LovelyLadyBx]

Excellent info! Thanks for sharing! Love your quirky humor! Your vids have a nice flow bc of it! ;-)

[@EtherealMusicTherapy]

Thankyou so much for this!!! Looking forward to getting my memoirs published before I start feeling overwhelmed!

[@montana19696]

I currently working on my first book! Thanks for the tips

[@AwesomeRecipes100]

Great tips. I am thinking about self publishing my first cookbook. Thank you for sharing!

[@Odessarose6]

I'm about to self-publish my second novel. Thanks for sharing.

[@sharonreneebrownmydiaries9943]

THANKS KAT!!! You are so awesome.

[@ibutta]

Thank you this was the only video I came across that was straight to the point without jibber jabb. Thank you so much!

[@cheryl7784]

This was such an informative video. Thanks so much...it’s much appreciated. 💕

[@mavaseaman4694]

Thank you, Kat. This was a comprehensive video.

[@jareddoucet1656]

Happy Thursday Kat!!! I’m very proud of you!!!

[@KatTheo]

Happy Thursday to you too and thank you Jared :)

[@chynasshafritos]

Kate thank you and congratulations on your book. I have ideas for my book thank you for sharing this.

[@kennethwatkins6126]

This is excellent! Thank you!

[@latiquaplease7915]

This is so helpful! Thank you!

[@Russthi]

Excellent thanks for sharing this process.

[@Blossom-gf3kx]

I have learned more from you in less than 10 minutes than I’ve learned from watching 15 other videos between yesterday and today. 🤔 Thank you so much for this valuable information about publishing books. ❤

[@KeishaAcuff]

This was super helpful. Thank you!

[@LargePrintBooksforChildren]

Thanks for the tips. I am on my way to publishing one of my books.

[@christinetralka9535]

I am watching your videos! I took the step get a new computer. I wrote my story and trying to format it:) I am excited.

[@ejlaguardia82]

The voice over duing the reading of the back cover is magical!

[@AwordwithAngel]

Thanks you. You are so encouraging 😇😊 God bless. 🙏🏾💜

[@spicejones256]

Very helpful, thank you so much 😊👍💪❤️

[@tammi67able]

Wow congratulations!! I’m subscribing to your channel

[@janelleclark1235]

Thanks so much ❤️Sharing is caring 😘 I publish my short story written a while ago I just didn’t know how to go about this. Many thanks

[@avionmakedasamuel1723]

Thank you so much for sharing. I've used the information to self publish my first book, "Our Untold Stories" , which is on Amazon.

[@yonh8294]

Excellent information. thank you Kat!

[@KatTheo]

Thank you for watching!!!

[@lgomez062608]

Thanks for the tip!

[@lordybelance3410]

Thanks for the advice, Kat! This is something I’m looking to do this year!

[@KatTheo]

You should! It is a lot of fun writing a book :)

[@lordybelance3410]

@@KatTheo Thanks! I started a novel, but I need to get myself to finish it

[@christellen3077]

Wow. Be blessed !

[@cothecoach]

Thanks for the game kat

[@starhairthetutor3765]

I'm going to buy it! 🥰

[@KatTheo]

Awe sweetie! Thank you! ♥♥♥ Let me know if you like it.

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

Got a children's book on the way to kdp now! I went to fiverr and got a lot of help... All this is helpful...thx!

[@Laurakang]

Fiverr is literally my fave place for these kind of services!!

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

@@Laurakang I just discovered it a few months ago and it's an amazing place...😊

[@Laurakang]

@@thatwiseoldbitchchannel IKR it feels like a marketplace for talent haha, its so cool.

[@randomtiff8540]

Thanks for this video! I'm writing a book about my life and I plan on self publishing it later this year. I'm hoping I do well.

[@KatTheo]

Of course you will do well! the next video is on how to promote your book :)

[@randomtiff8540]

@@KatTheo thank you!

[@minasnauna2646]

Thank you for sharing. I’m sitting on a manuscript and want to publish by Christmas

[@matthewstarks8925]

you just made my day, ahhhhhh thank you for these beautiful gems! where should I got to find more editors for my

[@joshuaporter4277]

Thank you so much ☺️ love the information

[@KatTheo]

Thank you for watching!

[@jansselection9268]

I dont market my books consistently, will be great to see your suggestions. Thanks for the video.

[@KatTheo]

I made a video on marketing your book :)) if you would like to check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HVn3Z9pNWXhJo

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[@coltennial9513]

Awesome video, thanks!

[@KatTheo]

Thank you for watching!

[@downey416Toronto]

you're gorgeous & informative thank you! i'm writing my first book the ART OF AMBITION & im just doing reseash before i go all in to get this to the world

[@kyliCatherine1]

I’ll be looking forward to the video on how to promote/market it. I also self-published a book on Amazon, but got few sales because I wasn’t good at marketing it.

[@KatTheo]

I got you next Thursday :)

[@OldboyBane]

Thanks! I want to write a children’s book as well!

[@themaryelizabeth4194]

Thank you!

[@adlan_kacak]

Thanks for the video, at least now I know what I've done so far can be considered right on track! 😚😚

[@KatTheo]

Oh most definitely!

[@theashleynycole]

Thank youuuu!!!

[@theoyess]

Thanks for sharing your journey of self-publishing a vegan children's book which is one of my New-year's resolution to accomplish, 🤞I wish there was a function on YT to like more than once.

[@Aritul]

Thank you so much!

[@funkinboyz4368]

I like the tutorial

[@mermaidarabella9798]

Thank you very much for this video. It was very informative and one way I was looking for publishing my book. It's been 2 years already since I wrote my first childrens book but the expenses were too hight to finish the self publishing and unfotunatelly I was unable to get anough donations to make it done... Print od demand book publishing is just what I need 🤗 All though first we need to finish ilustrations... It's so darn expensive (and I am a perfectionist and been making lots of changes that cost me a lot of money 😩) Thank you! 🤗❤️

[@jackietaylor3188]

I looked up this video on KZbin because I have figured out how to publish my own books and I’ve done so now I want to promote them it did it during the beginning of the pandemic and everything else kind of waited my book is also a children’s book a poetry book and a self-helpbook so I publish three and my daughters name is the same as yours if I’ve heard you correctly good Tips thank you!

[@YLZN0013]

Great breakdown!

[@KatTheo]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for being here

[@nwannenwanne1160]

Kath theoooo

[@MariJadeWrites]

Congrats on publishing your book(s)! :) I am also a published author of a coloring book and some lined notebooks on KDP, it's so exciting! Currently working on a second coloring book :)

[@kiyanacofield4159]

Have you made a profit?

[@MariJadeWrites]

@@kiyanacofield4159 I only started in February this year, but I have made 13 sales so far, so yes, I have ☺️

[@REDBONEPRODUCTIONS876]

what software do you use

[@Mz.Xtreme]

Thank you

[@tedrickadderley]

thank you!!!!!!!!!

[@cccreativityvlogs2971]

Thank you! ♥️ So simply explained! 👌 Looking forward to the next segment! Can you talk about costs a bit more in detail? What is the most cost effective word count? Some books cost more to print after a certain word count, from what I understand.

[@breianafrance8634]

Great question! I second this!

[@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80]

Was your questions ever answered

[@mihawk137]

0:04 nice editing kat! :)

[@zachbookman7526]

Awesome

[@latiquaplease7915]

Congratulations! I’m also interested in doing this, but I want to make it a series.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

I'm writing a chapter book. It's a mythological fantasy book.

[@Melda242]

Notification squad is here.

[@KatTheo]

WOOOH WELCOME!!! :D

[@courtneymirvil8658]

Congratulations! Also, great video! Do you mind sharing how much you paid for your illustrator, and how you found them please? I'm interested in self-publishing a children's book. Thanks!

[@RonOnTheGrill]

I've been "thinking" about self-publishing a book for years now. I have a blog site in the music ministry niche, where I've already written lots of articles that seemed to really resonate with people. But as most blog writers do, I eventually hit the wall and came to a point where I felt like I'd said everything had to say. The blog is now just a place for hackers to practice (don't go with Wordpress), and I'm no longer actively posting. My goals is to take all the best pieces I've written and compile them into a book, with additional content and thoughts. Like I said, I've been doing a lot of "thinking" about this but now much doing. Just a few days ago I decided I should really get serious about getting started on this thing, and that's when I saw your other video on the low-content books. What's that saying" "When the student is ready the teacher will appear? (or something like that)? I started watching your content and was really amazed at how much detail you present. These aren't mile-high overview videos you're doing; especially those low-content videos! So thanks for the great job you're doing on this channel. I've seen many like it but very few go into as much detail as you do. There aren't many excuses left not to get started now! Especially since I already have a following in the niche who are basically waiting for me to release the thing so they can go support it. Keep up the good work!

[@allisonstone6748]

Awesome video ♥️ I'm writing my first book and I'm so excited that I found your useful video! I write and draw all by my own and it's in one hand really hard😅 I wish success everyone who's working on book!

[@elizahelizah1455]

How your book going? Can I ask u that how did u mange the drawing part by yourself?

[@allisonstone6748]

@@elizahelizah1455 well, recently I finished manuscript and learned about publishing. I'm an artist, so to draw illustrations isn't too hard. The hardest is to do something first time) If you're writing your own book, I wish you success in this 💛🤗

[@elizahelizah1455]

@@allisonstone6748 Thank you so much! But I might be writing my story on some other platform to check the reviews before publishing it! Good luck for your book!😍🍀

[@allisonstone6748]

@@elizahelizah1455 thank you 💛

[@blacklove804]

Thank you. It was hard to follow the other woman. Can't wait to get started

[@puredivin1111]

Thank thank thank you:-):-)

[@Godlovesyou77777]

⭐Thank you!⭐

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

Thanks for the advice. One thing I would like to do besides paleontology is to write books. I mainly would like to be a self-publishing author. The reason for this is because I would like to have all rights to my content and decide what to change or not. Also, I have a question. Let's say a critique doesn't like something in your book, what do you do if you want to keep that part because it is your story?

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

I'm the author and illustrator of my books.

[@arieonford118]

Once you’re ready to publish your book on Amazon or go through an online printing service. Does this include the copyright page or would i need to have the book copyrighted? If so, can you explain this process?? Thank you so much! ~Arieon

[@budgetrebelgoals]

Congrats. i have to do the same this year and publish my book!!

[@KatTheo]

What is your book about?

[@InfinityAnnisa]

Great video! What illustration company did you work with ?

[@vegan.balaclava]

I LOOOOOOVE LOVE LOVE THAT IS A VEGAN BOOK!! ❤ 🐄

[@hunglai7824]

Hey, great video thank u. Where do you go about finding an illustrator?

[@hazydreamer7965]

Dear Kat, I listen to your explanation of 2 different codes/bar numbers one needs to include on that list for Bookbolt. One thing is not clear: As a foreigner, do I need it? The book will be printed in the US but sold online to any country in the world. What do I need for Kindle books using BookBolt? Thank you.

[@quantashabrown7230]

Thank you for this!! I am working on my first book and this is very helpful. Can you provide some resources/websites for these steps?

[@tootoo9960]

I would like to know how to brainstorm ideas for a book please and thanks for this video it's great.

[@DwynMary]

What happens with practical realisation like printing, binding, choosing type of paper or quality of hard cover or finish? Ans shipping? Does Amazon do all that for you? Are you charged for any initial costs? Is there a minimum of the copies that you need to be printed?

[@MsDeelio]

Hi Kat! Is this only for kindle or will this allow you to offer a hardcover/paperback book also?

[@breianafrance8634]

Hi Queen, I'm writing an urban romance (fiction) novel. Also wanna go the self published route. Just wondering can I only do KDP if I want to publish on Amazon only? Also can I do formatting on KDP?

[@sadent66]

❤️

[@travelwell6049]

Is there a way of knowing what the paper will be like? For example, if you do a children's book with full-colour pages, you may prefer a gloss print. Whereas if you're making a colouring book, you would want paper that can be coloured on.

[@onelife7247]

Thanks very much indeed for your video advice. Layla Escapes the Zoo looks super cute and I like the take-home message of the narrative. Any thoughts on copyright infringement issues and patents?

[@genarad9513]

Who did you use or could recommend to professionally add your book cover?

[@tashaleatherman6343]

I want to design my book with my own artwork, what would be the best way to go about transferring my paintings to whatever platform I go with? Scanner? 🤔

[@batmanfan20101]

👍

[@jeffreyhunter1823]

Very informative! Thanks! Got one question. When working with a third party, such as Fiverr, to help you with your book idea, do you need to be concerned with non-disclosure contracts?

[@MarinJapan]

Do you need more than one EIN number to publish different types of books?

[@mermaidarabella9798]

I was googling for Create Space and found that this was replaced with KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). Is it possible to publish a hardcover book on Amazon/KDP? I just found this for covers: Our covers are printed on 80# (220 GSM) white paper stock, glossy or matte finish 🤔

[@sabrinapack2135]

Yessssss tell me lol