Description

You have a manuscript, and you have a story to tell, expertise to share, or a message that won’t let you rest. What you don’t have, yet, is a published book. This is the book that gets you there.

A Step-by-Step Guide to the KDP System

Publish It Yourself! is a hands-on field guide to turn a finished manuscript into a published paperback, ebook, or hardcover using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) system. In days, your finished manuscript can be available worldwide, for sale in the world’s largest bookstore.

This is the second book in the Publish It Yourself! Series from Touchwood Press, and the product of nearly 20 years’ experience publishing books on Amazon and teaching others how to do it.

Why this book, in a world already drowning in self-publishing advice?

Search “self-publishing” on Amazon, YouTube, or Spotify and you’ll drown in podcasts, blogs, courses, and videos. Many promise quick success, push expensive services, or assume you already speak fluent publishing-industry jargon. This book does none of those things.
>Instead, it does what a good classroom does: walks you through the work, in the right order, maintaining realistic expectations and a teacher’s patience.

Every step in the KDP system. Every decision. Every field. Plus the context—editing, design, formatting, pricing, marketing—you need to make those decisions well.

What you’ll learn

• The Seven Steps to Self-Publishing—milestones from finished manuscript to live book.
• How to think about your role as author, publisher, and entrepreneur.
• How to prepare your manuscript using standard manuscript format conventions.
• Editing essentials and the four kinds of editors. How to hire one.
• Cover and interior design fundamentals, with three paths for every budget.
• A three-part, screen-by-screen walkthrough of Amazon KDP.
• Categories, keywords, and the Amazon search algorithm that will help shoppers find your books.
• Pricing strategy, royalty math, and the KDP Select decision.
• A complete marketing framework with Four Cs, Four Ps, and ten promotion tactics that actually work.
• How to track royalties, scale your publishing, and decide what comes after Book One.

Get Whole Story in the Publish It Yourself Series

Publish It Yourself! is part of a series built to grow with you. Each book stands alone, and together, they replace an expensive course and a shelf of conflicting advice with one coherent voice from someone who’s deep in it and done it all.

Includes a self-publishing checklist, book specification sheet template, curated resources, and structured exercises that move your project forward.

If you have been telling yourself, “someday I’m going to write a book,” but it isn’t happening, then this is your sign.
Someday is today.