Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast, the show for aspiring authors and writers who want to publish a book that actually builds their business and their life.

Every episode, you'll hear from top authors and everyday people just like you who are doing it at the highest level.

I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder and CEO of selfpublishing.com, where we've helped over 7,000 authors write, publish, and launch their book successfully.

Let's get into it.

Nobody shows you what it actually takes to publish a quality and successful book until now.

We published 7,000 books over the last decade. My team just put together this

crazy process. That's crazy. But now in a handful of pages that will help you successfully

publish your book. They beg me not to share this for the first time ever. I'm showing the behind

the curtain of how we do what we do.

Before what would happen is you hire 17 people. You spend thousands of dollars. You're figuring out what's an ISB in? What's Engram Spark? What's all of these? Cover design, distribution, publishing? What are all these things? So we finally just said, hey, we're going to start doing this for people. for people and we're going to create it in an easy to digest way.

So buckle up. I'm going to walk you through the whole process.

No, I'm not going to share this PDF with you. So pay attention closely. But you can see behind the scenes

of what is going to take if you do this on your own, obviously, but then what we will do on your

behalf. So let's dive into the book production process.

So book production is everything from, all right, the book is done and edited. Or maybe there's

some edit, you know, we'll see if we kind of scroll down here. There's some editing that has

happened prior to this. But by the time you get here,

the manuscript is locked. Okay? And when I say locked, I mean locked. So hopefully you've used our book

outline template generator. That's really helpful coming into this process. It's free. You can download

it. It's in the description.

But now we get into, so at a glance, you've got your cover design, you've got the layout and formatting,

you've got the other deliverables, and then there's a marketing. Okay, so this is a handful of things

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