How I Published My Children's Book | BookBaby, Amazon, & Kickstarter Tips 

Hi everyone! Today, I'm sharing my entire process of making my first children's book "We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Inspirational Asian American Women.”
LINKS
Kickstarter: bit.ly/WeAreInspiringKickstarter
Buy my book on Bookbaby: bit.ly/WeAreInspiringBB
Buy my book on Amazon: bit.ly/WeAreInspiringAmazon
Buy my book (signed copy): bit.ly/signedWAIbook
IG: / weareinspiringbook
DISCLAIMER: I’m not a professional children's book author or illustrator by any means. I graduated with degrees in Biology and Studio Art and did some marketing internships in college, but never had formal training in book illustration, writing, or publishing. I started this project for fun in 2018 when I was 23!
Video outline
1) writing and illustrating
2) deciding on a self-publisher, BookBaby.com
3) distributing on Amazon through Print-on-Demand (POD) + My Kickstarter
4) this book’s impact on the Asian American community
Time stamps
00:00 Intro
00:55 Inspiration behind We Are Inspiring
02:45 children’s book writing process
04:02 children’s book illustration process
05:05 art materials used
06:05 mock-ups + test prints
08:00 my Kickstarter
10:58 Kickstarter costs
12:00 what I would have done differently on Kickstarter
13:00 other self-publishing costs (ISBN and Copyright)
13:40 why I decided to self-publish
15:40 BookBaby Overview
16:05 POD (Print on Demand)
16:39 BookBaby Book printing specs
18:00 Selling through BookBaby
18:20 how to add children’s book on Amazon
19:40 Amazon children’s book launch
21:50 should you have your own book inventory?
23:00 Total sales as of Oct 2020
24:15 Social media marketing (art IG, News interviews)
26:30 Outro
My Project Timeline
June 2018: Write and illustrate book
September 2018: Launch Kickstarter
July 2019: Launch on Amazon
October 2020: 1,000 copies sold
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