How To Self Publish A Poetry Book

How To Self Publish A Poetry Book

Poetry is the music of your soul, writers always believe this, that stories are the gateway to your creativity and imagination whereas poetry is related more to soul, heart, pain and love. 

Many poets want to get their poetry books self published, and here’s how:

Where to Publish Poetry :-

1. Social Media –

Social Media sites are a great place to publish your poetries and gain readers. 

2. Online Poet Communities –

These days you’ll find so many groups and communities that only function for poetry geeks. 

3. Journal and Magazines –

You can also send your poems to magazines and journals for publishing. 

4. Your Local Community –

In India, almost every community has it’s own magazine and books. You can send your work to be published in that. 

Easy Steps To Self Publishing Poetry :-

1. Edit your poetry and get feedback from fellow poets and experienced professionals-

Poetry too needs editing, and there’s no one better than your fellow poets who have a hold on the genre. 

2. Organize your poetry to create a collection with a unified theme, topic or style-

All famous poets have similar styles of poetry and poems, maybe on similar themes and topics and similar way of writing. So as a poet, you should also find a uniform voice. 

3. Establish an online presence and join online poetry and book communities to begin marketing your poetry book-

It’s very important to collaborate with like minded people who will be interested to read and buy your work. 

4. Decide the format of your book and have the interior and a cover designed-

Designing of a book is as important to attract readers, of not more. Many poets gets too creative with the cover pages and the interior of their book by adding nice graphics. 

5. Get your book distributed so your audience can purchase your poetry from every major book retailer-

Also, not just online, it’s good to market your book offline too and distribute it amongst some major chains.

• Nowadays many online sites too help you in these processes. Amongst these sites, there’s a newly launched writing, reading and publishing site known as “Shabd” which offers many amazing features like reading books, writing own books or short articles, getting their books published and selling them online, even giving services for marketing and promotions like book reviewing and influencer marketing. Best thing? You can choose whether you want to read and publish your book for free or paid, gaining 80% of the royalties if you keep your book paid. 
• You can simply register yourself on Shabd, create an account and start writing right away. Once you’re done with the book, you can publish the book, for free or paid, and can start promoting the URL of the book on all over social media to sell your book online for free. This “How to sell your book” idea is one of the best strategies present today in the digital world. 
• So what are you waiting for. If you’re a writer waiting to get published, if you’re an author looking for selling your book online, if you’re ba reader wanting to read a good book, come and join us on Shabd today.