my self publishing goals & plans 🌈 what I want for my writing career!

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today we're talking all about my self publishing plans, writing goals and how im creating my writing career and planning my writing and publishing schedule! I talk about my goals to become an indie author, plan my publishing timelines and take you into my thought process as a writer and authortuber. feel free to comment any qs you have about my self publishing plans or writing process! plan my writing and publishing schedule with me!
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[@briellewrites]

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[@AshDaniWrites]

Hearing you talk about all the little things you want to do for the books you plan on selling on your website makes me feel so excited! 📖

[@briellewrites]

So excited for the little goodies!!! 😄😄

[@riaiswriting]

📚u being scared of tiktok as a platform is so real i had it for a weak and had sm death threats and i was like i can’t do this 😃😃😃

[@briellewrites]

DEATH THREATS?? Goodbye I cannot

[@arcane9205]

Death threats??? Over books, what?! 😭

[@riaiswriting]

@@briellewrites IKR BRIELLE IT'S CRAZY on youtube i've only gotten 1 mild hate comment and the person deleted it lmao and on tiktok I received SEVERAL DEATH THREATS THE CONTRASTTTTTTTT

[@briellewrites]

@@riaiswriting the !!! Contrast!!!

[@poppyleanne]

My goal, as a debut author, is to self-publish this New Year's Eve actually. My goal was to publish by the end of the year, but I heard December is the worst month for authors to self-publish, as the market is super competitive at this time, so I decided to wait till New Year's Eve, so, technically, I am still reaching my goal for this year, whilst simultaneously publishing in January, which is a better month, if not the best month, for self-publishing. I can't wait for you to release the first book in your series! I love the plans you have. Doing a reader box sounds so fun! 📖📚📓

[@briellewrites]

Good luck with your plans, that sounds so exciting! You got this!

[@madebymalayka]

I can't stress how much I looooove the way your brain works 🫶🏾 I've never met someone as obsessed about self-publishing as much as I am 🙌🏾 My debut is set for Fall 2025 too (and I'm only 30K into the current draft, help) 🫠 YES to packing small business orders! 👏🏾 DOUBLE YES to hiring my own designers and editors! 👏🏾 TRIPLE YES to all the freedom of being an indie author! 👏🏾 I can't wait to hear more about your process Brielle!

[@briellewrites]

Omg I love this comment so much 🥰💖💖 good luck with your self publishing timeline!!! We got this!!!

[@madebymalayka]

@briellewrites ahh, thank you! 🥹

[@kenbryan339]

Lol girl I feel you on wanting to spend a bunch of money for everything to look the way you dreamed. I feel the same. I would love for my books to have art to go with it. Would love audio versions too, full cast for some, because I love full cast audiobooks. I want a website with extended chapters, deleted scenes, epilogues, etc. Love hearing about your goals!

[@briellewrites]

I love that!!!! I say go for it!!

[@K.S.Roberson.Author]

I love this! I also self-published and I had a lot of friends and family ask about traditional publishing and it was never something I was interested in! Thanks for normalizing what works for you!

[@tgeddes7602]

I'd recommend booking your editor now. Indie editors book up so fast and mine is already booked well into 2025. Like....through to July. You can work on book two while book one is with your editor. That's what I did and it worked out a bit 😂. Now that book 1 is two weeks from release I'm trying to finish draft 2.

[@briellewrites]

Good call! Reached out to her after reading this yaha

[@jupiter4334]

You talking about your dreams and goals makes me so excited to see your books released and also makes me super inspired to work on my projects! I think I’m more inclined towards traditional publishing, but I’m still going back and forth about it📚

[@briellewrites]

Aww I love that!! Rooting for u with your publishing endeavors 💖

[@ryancruz446]

I’m excited for your publishing journey. I’m a self published author too. I just published my 1st week last month and now working on my 2nd book. Hopefully I can finish it before end of August… I understand how or why you needed 6 month’s preparation. But as you publish more, you will make books faster… Good luck!!!

[@briellewrites]

Congrats on publishing your first novel!

[@cherrystm]

Yes, lets dream about our future as writters❤

[@katieakin1091]

I’m also self-publishing and want to do SWAG for my books 😊 mostly because I’m doing a 4-5 book middle grade series and I think it’d be fun to do

[@briellewrites]

That’s so fun!

[@katieakin1091]

@@briellewrites the problem is not having the tools or finances to do a lot of it. I would LOVE to do stickers, but every video I’ve seen has people making them on an iPad and I don’t have one (or the program they use)

[@theta-mage]

Ohhh, right now my dream when it comes to writing is just to have a steady enough mood for long enough to actually finish writing a book, haha. I have bipolar disorder, and the list of books I’ve started to write and then abandoned because of depression is looo-ooo-oooooong. 😅 I don’t dream about money, really. It’s not an important motivator for me-if it was, I would have stuck with studying AI engineering instead of switching to studying social services. The switch basically cut my expected pay into half, but I like to follow my passion, not euros. Besides my bipolar disorder, my other hurdle in my writing career is the amount of ideas that I would like to write. Right now, I have six workable ideas one of them a re-imagined Dracula (set in northern Finland), one a post-war high fantasy story that has a lot to do with being a refugee, cultural clashes, and building a lasting peace after a war, one is about an inter-dimensional cultural anthropologist (a critique on hardcore cultural relativism), one is about a young boy who accidentally becomes god, one is about a vampire who cannot give up on lost love, and one is a collection of pseudo-scientific essays. I should probably choose one to work on.📚

[@isabellajuanitalyn]

This is so inspiring and exciting!

[@asmmovies0220]

A skill share sponsorship omg yay! Ahhhh I'm so excited for you!

[@briellewrites]

Ahhh thank you so much!! A dream come true honestly I’ve always wanted to work with them 🥹

[@lilianofli]

omg I'm so excited for you! I self-published twice now, and it's been such an exciting journey. All the best!! 💪🏼❤

[@briellewrites]

That is so so cool! Congrats on releasing 2 books!

[@paytonjletko]

yes, please! love the mix of chatty vlogs and writing vlogs. wouldn't mind watching what you've read so far this year!

[@briellewrites]

Def planning to make a reading wrap up at the end of the year! Prob on my 2nd channel :)

[@lynndjung]

I'm late to the party but it's always so interesting listening to you talk about self-pub! The business side is 1000% what intimidates me about this style of publishing but I LOVE how passionately and creatively you're thinking about it. I cannot wait to buy Brielle books!!

[@briellewrites]

Awww :’) thanks Lynn! Love that we can chat about the different avenues, always so fun to swap perspectives 💖

[@morraquelee]

I'm leaning more towards traditional publishing but I would still love to try self-publishing sometime just to see how different both experiences are. ✨ (Btw: I love your content so, so much!)

[@TiaLove28]

that's where i'm at too. i wouldn't mind indie publishing my poetry collection or short stories, but i'd rather trad publish because i have no "business" bone in my body

[@briellewrites]

So glad you enjoy the content!!! Best of luck with your trad pub journey ❤❤

[@riaiswriting]

ur background in the video is so pretty :))📚

[@briellewrites]

@@riaiswriting thank you Ria!! I’ll have to film in front of it more 📚📚

[@itsamina]

girl the way my jaw was TO THE FLOOR when you said you wanted a rapid release of book 2!!! the ambition is ambitioning and i love it! i'm so excited to see how everything plays out bestie 📖📚✨

[@briellewrites]

Hahaha am I crazy?? Maybe!! But that’s okay!!

[@andesears]

the bookshelf background is 12/10, love love love

[@briellewrites]

Thank you :’))))

[@kokoro_flow]

Having each shelf as its own rainbow is a refreshing take with the ease of finding books. 📚 🌈

[@user-vw5fo7ty8m]

Great video! Love the rainbow bookshelf ❤and enjoyed listening to your publishing goals and dreams!! Best of luck and looking forward to a signed copy of your books!! 📚 you go girl!

[@briellewrites]

Thanks ❤❤

[@AdamFishkin]

An odd little question occurred to me: if your own books are successful, would you ever collaborate with author friends to release their work under your publishing label? With this channel you've been demonstrating a charisma that would lend itself well in particular to the marketing side of books. Collectives have also had a increasing appeal to me from a number of precedents. -- In literature I'm thinking of people like Charles Dickens and William Thackeray, who founded their own magazines after they gained fame. Monthly-periodical labels like Cornhill (edited by Thackeray) and Household Words (edited by Dickens) would publish chapters of others' books in their social circle. -- In film I'm thinking of BBS, which didn't last very long but had a huge artistic impact on counterculture. It started as "managers" for a TV-sitcom band called the Monkees, but those managers (Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, Steve Blauner & Jack Nicholson) wanted to expand to other areas and give opportunities to unique voices the Hollywood studios were ignoring. That's how we ended up with "Easy Rider", "The Last Picture Show" and "Hearts and Minds". This is just a little something you can mull over on the side as your process continues. :)

[@briellewrites]

This is so interesting!!! I’ve never thought about that but would honestly love to do that- I’ll definitely be giving it some thought as I continue :)

[@bluebookstufff]

yess! been waiting for a new video

[@briellewrites]

Yay!! I’m honored!

[@Paul_Todkill]

As a marketing professional looking to selfpub on almost an identical timeline... Yeah! You got it. Only major change is that I'm going to be releasing a series of free short stories over the next year (with audio books, for maybe all, cost allowing) building awareness and email list. In terms of the rest though.. 100%, this is almost exactly what I'm planning on doing. I'd maybe look at Sept/early Feb in terms of the stagger. Sept is the most popular month for book releases (statistically) and it gives time for it to be out for a few months full price, and it not be weird to do a holiday sale.

[@briellewrites]

Interesting, thanks for the advice on the timeline! Good luck with your release!

[@Paul_Todkill]

@@briellewrites I work in another industry so take all this with a grain of salt. As indie marketing campaigns on KZbin go, yours is definitely the best I've seen. Good luck with yours!

[@mikwrites]

LOVE hearing all about your goals and dreams and I KNOW you can do it all!!!!!!!!!! 📔

[@briellewrites]

THANKS MIK AHHH 💖

[@AriBPK]

brielle, this is so exciting -- I can't wait for your books and these amazing career stages 🔥loved this chatty video and hearing about all of your goals, cheering you on 🎉

[@briellewrites]

Thanks sm Ari!! So sweet :’) 💖

[@alyssa.and.the.books.]

love this! I'm already so excited to order my signed first edition with all the goodies!

[@briellewrites]

Omg 🥰💖

[@charneselesch3677]

You should make a podcast!

[@briellewrites]

Planning to do one on Patreon in the future!! I love chatty formats :)

[@goldenros_ss]

The first thing I noticed was the bookshelf... I was practically drooling....

[@briellewrites]

Hahaha I love that!

[@jaswriting]

omg same!! My goal is to self publish my work one day. Loved the idea since I learned it. Omg I’m super excited to see your journey when you get to the publishing stage! 🫶🏼

[@briellewrites]

So excited to share all the behind the scenes of the publishing journey!! Good luck with self publishing one day :’) ❤

[@nicolinasurel]

I'm also scared of TikTok. Threads has been okay--But Meta is kinda evil anyway. I like the community you've built here on KZbin, and I can't wait to engage with this future content. As someone who's published into the void for a few years now, I'm enjoying your journey.

[@briellewrites]

thank you! happy to have you here!

[@TiaLove28]

I cannot do TikTok either and the only things that seem appealing are instagram and KZbin.

[@briellewrites]

KZbin is the best!!

[@chantellestreete2767]

so excited to go on this journey with you'!

[@briellewrites]

Yay! Happy to have you here!

[@GilCCruz]

Thanks for sharing your perspective, incredibly articulate. Who are you? Kudos on the rainbow bookshelf.

[@briellewrites]

Thanks :)))

[@sophielafleche3803]

I love the art right at the end of the video. Did you make that or have someone make it for you?

[@briellewrites]

thank you! it was a commission from @chelzd_art on instagram :)

[@mirandatheauthor]

i'm so excited for you!!! your plans sound amazing. i can't wait to read your book one day (^: 📖 my publishing goals are essentially the same! self-publish, make some amount of income but still keep writing a passion project. my dreams are to have a custom map inside, a beautifully designed cover that has some sort of.. reflective bits? Like how gold foil is! and to be good at marketing myself without getting sucked into the depths of social media lol

[@briellewrites]

I love that!! Gold foil on books is so pretty :) and so honored you want to read the book one day :’) ❤

[@ldjwrites]

I’m so jealous of your Eragon collection!

[@briellewrites]

lol I can’t take any credit, it’s my boyfriends collection! But it’s nice to have on the shelves haha

[@ldjwrites]

@@briellewrites It’s yours by proxy haha

[@roohvarz9942]

📚

[@johnfrancois9940]

Good Vibes ✌️✌️ Edit: October is actually the best month of the year and I'm totally not just say

[@briellewrites]

Dude I agree!

[@Celinelikedion]

october 2025 couldn't come sooner!!! 📖📚

[@briellewrites]

Love u sm

[@andesears]

girlies with questionable & ambitious publication timeline goals unite! lol. loved hearing your thoughts & plans for self publishing! definitely taking notes for planning my own publishing journey :)

[@briellewrites]

Are we crazy?? Maybe!! But I love that for us lol. Glad you enjoyed :’) 💖

[@AriBPK]

📘📘📘 all the book emojis

[@sierrabookishlife]

Do you have an author you would recommend to follow that is writing a times ending novel ??

[@kokoro_flow]

Dystopian?

[@author.gabrielavrivera]

Will you do ARCs for book 1? 😁

[@briellewrites]

Not sure yet! Still thinking about it :)

[@krissisacrednotes]

k 📚

[@Chinelo_eve]

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[@tgeddes7602]

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