self publishing

[dusky onyx]

has anyone here self published a book? preferably through amazon kdp?

[paper ferry]

Nope but I am planning to very soon so when I do I can let you know how smoothly it went?

[dusky onyx]

Yes please! How are you going to do it? Kdp?

[paper ferry]

I think so im not 100% sure though, i am definitely going through amazon to do it though

[wild lodge]

I have a bit of experience because I tried their self publishing platform I would say it's fairly easy to get through format wise and especially if you're in the US in terms of getting payments !

[dusky onyx]

Unfortunately I‘m not in the US- haha. How did you do the formatting or did the website do it themselves?

[wild lodge]

I used Google docs to do most my formatting or you can use reedsy and convert to a docs after

Kdp accepts epub files and general docs and it will generally keep the format you worked in

I suggest making the account it's fairly easy to navigate and do a short sample book to get the feel of it

[dusky onyx]

oh can one sample without actually publish it?

[wild lodge]

Yup you can do all your formatting and edits and just watch a preview of it all without publishing

[dusky onyx]

Okay thank you! May I dm you so we can chat about this? I might need additional help with it all -😅