My Poetry Through the Years: Book 2 Available for Pre-order!

Hello, Everyone! I am  very excited to announce that my second poetry book is available for pre-order on kindle! This book is packed with even more fun poems to read and enjoy.  You can pre-order the book starting today and it will be available September 18.

In this book of poems, the main theme is change, summer and more. The reason behind these themes is, at the time of writing many of the poems are in the theme of life change. These poems let me reflect on the fact that I had just graduated high school and gotten my diploma. I was still a little in shock in the fact that I was done with high school and ready to jump into the real world.

The other theme of summer. At the time, of course, it was summer in Juneish. So I had to write on how hot it was and so on.

Then there are a few poems that do not go into the two main themes of change and summer. They are the miscellanies poems that I wrote when the inspiration came to me.

Now to the cover, I created the cover to represent new beginnings with the door nob. Which is a very important part of this book, change and new beginnings are part of our lives. It is normal to feel scared to what may come. This poem book helped me reflect on these changes. There will be a different cover for the other e-books and paperback. A friend of mine is designing for me. I will keep you updated on the cover design.

On another news is that I will have my first poetry book free from Monday, September 14- Friday, September 18th to celebrate the second book coming out.

If you are unsure of buying these book check out my sneak peeks!
My Poetry Through the Years Sneak Peek...
My Collection of Short Stories Sneak Peek...
My Poetry Through the Years: Book 2 sneak peek

To purchase all of my  books click here.

Thank you for all your support and I hope you enjoy the new book!

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How to Self Publish a Poem book

Hello everyone! I got a question from bethfinkie about what is the processes in publishing a poetry book. So here it goes!

1. when I wanted to publish my first book I was googling a lot. I was looking for a website that would allow me to published at no charge. I also used YouTube to watch videos on other people using the site and their thoughts. Once I learned about amazon's direct publishing e-book I decided to try it out.

Also when I wanted to find a site to do print I found Lulu.com to be the easiest and cheapest opposition. They do offer professional service but I went with the free-Do it your self- opposition. I also found out that they do free e-books too. Were I am not just available on amazon, but also, nook, ibook, and kobo. So through Lulu I am on more e-book platforms. That was a plus for me! I felt limited with amazon.

2. Formatting

When I found out that i could directly publish to kindle, I found what the formatting is for making an e-book. I found that you just need to have heading for each poem and create a table of contestant. I was using Microsoft word for all of this.

For lulu I needed the same things but there was a minimum of 32 pages that I had to do for the paper copy. Also I believe for e-book to but it may not matter for eBook.

3. Choosing poems

So for the first book I had already all the poems written. So all I needed to do was take all the poems and sort them where they were kinda put together by topic.

For the second one I had a few poems that did not make it to the first book so I put them in this one and since I have to have about 32 pages for my book on lulu I continued writing when an idea came to me and just added it to the book. When I finally reached the 32 page minimum I was ready to start editing and double checking formatting. After all that I was ready to upload.

4. uploading

This step was pretty simple since you just fill out what ether kindle or lulu wanted. The title, author name, rights, description, price, cover and uploading the file of the book. It is very simple to do. For the first two book I just went through the processes and done! But for my second poem book I am having one of my best friends who is an artist design the cover for the book. That is why it is not up yet. I did not like to chooses for the covers when you just go through the steps. So I decided I need a nicer cover. Hopefully soon I will be able to show everyone the cover for the book.

5. Submitting

So after you have done all the steps to upload your book. You wait about 24-48 hour for amazon to put it up. For lulu it may take a month or more. They have to review your book. Then kindle,nook, iBook and kobo review the book. If they accept it you will find it up on their website in about a month.

I hope this helps! Anyone wanting to self-publish I would use Lulu.com since they can sent your eBook to all the different providers.

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