Self-Publishing Your Book Everywhere (2024)

About this video

Dale walks through publishing his first full-length book in nearly four years wide, not just on Amazon. He drafted it during NaNoWriMo, stockpiled drafts, then slowed himself down by using about two dozen beta readers like an ARC team; he now recommends one to three beta readers, managed through Story Origin. After editing with Jeannie DeVita, he did keyword research with Dibbly Create for discovery and Publisher Rocket for viability, splitting his seven backend keywords into category-specific, exact-match, and broad-match slots without repeating browse-path terms. He used ChatGPT to draft marketing copy by first feeding it four of his previous book descriptions, then title, keywords and table of contents, and still edited the output himself. He tracks everything on a metadata sheet, hired MiblArt for cover and interior formatting (learning to flag formatter notes clearly), and distributed ebooks via KDP, Kobo Writing Life, Google Play, PublishDrive, Draft2Digital, Lulu and Payhip, print via KDP, IngramSpark, PublishDrive, BookVault and Lulu, then gathered all editions into a Books2Read universal book link.

Key takeaways

• Use only 1-3 beta readers familiar with your niche; treating beta readers like a large ARC team creates overwhelming, paralyzing feedback
• Combine a keyword scraper for breadth with a viability tool to refine choices, mixing category-specific, exact-match and broad-match backend keywords without redundancy
• Train AI on your own previous descriptions before asking it to draft new marketing copy, then analyze, edit and finalize it yourself
• Keep a metadata sheet with title, ISBNs, prices, bios, descriptions, keywords and categories to remove friction when uploading everywhere
• Publish wide format by format and finish with a universal book link so readers land in the right regional store for their preferred retailer

Episode details: published July 30, 2024 · 46:59 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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