The Top 3 Reasons KDP Beginners Are Destined To FAIL (Amazon and Audible) 

Fiction Publishing - correct e-book setup/format/typeset in InDesign. Add to it - any overlapping skills in self-publishing Fiction vs Low Content.

Hi. Please, where's the link to the Facebook group? I'd really love to join 💯

good video: accurate, honest, well voiced. A+

How to... A+ Content. Thank you!

Haha awesome

One author in the UK who I have followed is a very successful self published author. He has said you must treat your self publishing as a business and be serious about it- if you don't, you're setting yourself up to fail. That means studying marketing strategy, learning about Facebook Ads, Amazon Ads, Google Ads and how to structure them to be most effective etc - be willing to invest SOME money into a marketing plan, invest in a decent cover design for your books etc. He stresses the most crucial tool in a self published author's kit is getting a mailing list set up, with a website. "Put the effort in, and prepare yourself to succeed. Take yourself and your craft seriously." He said you have to put the effort into the 'business' side of your writing. I did a comparison between him and another author I follow, but both took very different routes. The traditional published author has a decent readership base and loads of books written over 15 years or so - but the self published one has already made a good £7 million or so from his writing in half the time. Being in the UK, I can take a look at his publishing company accounts so its easy to see how much money he makes in any given year and such. Its made my mind up - with the changing to publishing being what it is, and even more authors having to put the effort in with marketing etc even if you go the 'traditional' route.......its self publishing for me!! At least then I have a decent chance to earn more, and I'm willing to put serious effort in. Hopefully we can all quit the 9-5 one day 😁

Right! "You've got to spend some to make some." :) @@bobpage6597

No problem :)

Kids books are kind of a happy medium between long form and DIY in my opinion

You're already failing by having it sit there. May as well publish it and either it continues to fail and you learn what worked so your next book can be better...or...maybe it does well. You just never know, but you have to try, or you'll always be left never knowing. And thats much worse.

Go for it. You can't lose. The book may fail but if you are wise you will learn from your mistakes and do better. It all boils down to a simple question: do you want to realize your dream or not? If you don't...I think you will never forgive yourself for stopping short. I was reading something a while back about a published writer who was invited to dinner by a couple he knew. As they ate, the husband was telling the writer that he, the husband had written several books, himself. The wife said nothing but by her mannerisms, the writer could tell that she was not impressed with her husband's statement. As it turned out, the husband had indeed written "several books"_ and all of them were sitting in the closet gathering dust. He never tried to publish any of them. If you don't try, you can stay in the land of daydreams. The Rocky Horror Picture Show says it best: "don't dream it, be it."

A journal or a word search book would be considered no/low content

Send me the link to your books and I will tell you my opinion. I'm good at figuring out these things.