I Wrote A Book brehs...

[newworldafro]

More of the actual publishing process... When you self-publish you have to do all the formatting yourself and it is SUPER time-consuming. You upload your written file (mine was a word doc) to your publishing site (I used createspace/Amazon), and then you have to pick a book size. My word file was written in 8x11 but the standard book size is 6x9, so it formatted all wrong with the words and spaces all over the page. You have to go through it one page at a time and mess with font size, correct chapter/page breaks, etc. and then you have to create and upload your own cover.

It's not *difficult* to do, but it's tedious as fukk and takes HELLA long and I literally thought while doing it, 'I see why this is a job someone at a publishing house gets paid to do.' Amazon has an in-house team that you can pay to do all of it for you, but it costs $399 .

Is there any type of copyright aspect or is that all in the fine print contract agreement?

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

Is there any type of copyright aspect or is that all in the fine print contract agreement?

You pick what kind of copyright you want before you publish, they give you options and you just select one and then it goes into the contract.

 

[Medicate]

Good stuff.....I'll be checkin it out....

 

[Lana del Rey]

I'll most definitely check it out. I was on gazi kodzo(I think you might know him) tumblr account and I actually came across one of your videos and I loved it so much I suscribed on youtube. You're awesome girl... Keep it up!!

 

[Savior]

Props. Looks like a lot of effort went into it. This should probably be stickied

 

[Primetime21]

Will cop, @Stacker Pentecost about how long did the writing process take for you? (excluding the time for formatting) and did you try to get this out to a publishing company or was it your original goal to self publish?

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

I'll most definitely check it out. I was on gazi kodzo(I think you might know him) tumblr account and I actually came across one of your videos and I loved it so much I suscribed on youtube. You're awesome girl... Keep it up!!

Thank you! And he's my internet bro lol

Props. Looks like a lot of effort went into it. This should probably be stickied

Thanks, I did it all myself so that means a lot

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Lemme give u some advice since I published my book on Amazon back in February this year too



REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS......

Getting reviews before your book actually comes out is almost more important than the book itself. People don't buy books that don't have reviews. You might be selling a few books right now but in 4 weeks if you don't have any reviews, no one will trust it.

So make sure to tell people who read your book to do you a favor and leave a review if they liked it. I'll check your book out and leave a review when I get some time ...I can leave a review quicker if u PM me the epub

 

[AAKing23]

Good looks

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

Lemme give u some advice since I published my book on Amazon back in February this year too



REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS......

Getting reviews before your book actually comes out is almost more important than the book itself. People don't buy books that don't have reviews. You might be selling a few books right now but in 4 weeks if you don't have any reviews, no one will trust it.

So make sure to tell people who read your book to do you a favor and leave a review if they liked it. I'll check your book out and leave a review when I get some time ...I can leave a review quicker if u PM me the epub

Thanks for the tip breh

 

[Skooby]

Some of y'all know me from videos like this:







So for anyone that's interested, I just wanted to let you guys know that I wrote a book! It's a series of essays around race and pop culture, and it's on CreateSpace for a paperback, Amazon for Kindle, and GumRoad for a digital e-book.

Paperback: "So, About That... A Year Of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture" by Seren Sensei

Kindle:
www.amazon.com/dp/B013V0CHK6?&tag=rnwap-20

E-book:
So, About That… A Year Of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture

A snippet of the inside:

Anyone that wants to support, I'd appreciate it!

Congrats and I will be buying your ebook.

I'm not an author or a journalism major but I always thought about writing my own sci-fi book (I love sci-fi).

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

Congrats and I will be buying your ebook.

I'm not an author or a journalism major but I always thought about writing my own sci-fi book (I love sci-fi).

You should do it! And it costs nothing to self-publish these days.

 

[Skooby]

You should do it! And it costs nothing to self-publish these days.

Yeah, I think I will!

 

[bigrodthe1]

Congrats...I wrote a book as well as detailed in this thread http://www.thecoli.com/threads/star...ional-book-edit-added-2-more-chapters.314893/
I got to finish typing out my chapters. You dropped some much needed knowledge in this thread when I get a chance I will support and buy your work.

 

[hoodheronova]

Hi, i'm Troy Mclure.

Hi!

joke went ova ya head