Great advice! I used to watch many indie authors’ YouTube videos, but I have never found one like this. Also, I’m not a native English speaker, so this is twice as helpful for me. Thank you so much! I just bought your book because, based on everything you explain, it looks very well made and thorough. I wish you all the best with it!

I absolutely LOVE how down to earth and sensible you are when presenting AND contextualizing information, so that newbies like me can makde their own judgement. This is such a breath of fresh air. Thank you so much for sharing this!

Love it when this kind of information is shared in detail!
For my debut, I'm forgoing a ton of expenses, honestly, including any kind of editing. I bought an editing course that allowed me to change my book from mediocre to actually good. Author blindness is an absolute b*tch to deal with, but there are ways to combat it; I am using every trick out there. It is truly possible to self-edit from start to finish, it's just Extremely hard; it doesn't just take effort, it takes a lot of learning too. If you don't know what to look out for, there's no way you'll be improving the book to the quality it should have.
I went back and forth between paying for a cover or not. I did pay for 1 piece of character art just as a kind of test to see how I felt about it. Honestly, my artist was great, but I hated the process, so I'm learning to draw for future books, and in the meantime made a cover from stockphotos and canva (both of which are paid, but they're very cheap). I am hyper-independent to a bit of an extreme; this is why handing any kind of task off to someone else just doesn't work for me.
That said, I will definitely be spending on ARC platforms, and am thinking of getting a paid software for formatting as well.
The thing is that, ironically, money is not an issue for me; I could technically go nuts and hire professional help for every step. What is an issue is relying on others. Idk if I'm the only one, but sometimes it's not a matter of "is it worth my money", but rather "do I trust that the result will be better than if I did it myself".

Greetings from Finland! Very useful info. Tack.

This was really interesting. Thanks for sharing ❤

Glad you were able to swap services with other writers. Another top is for writers to upload their fully edited docx manuscript to Reedsy Studio for formatting as a print-ready PDF or epub file. It's completely free and a good option for those on a right budget.

Thinking about how much I have spent on my debut novel is enough to make me weep, but seriously, I really appreciate people who are transparent about the process. I'm very proud of what I created, but I've definitely learned some expensive lessons✅

Also, I subscribed🎉

Thank you for sharing this information. Very helpful. Being a debut author isn’t what it used to be. I like the idea of trading skills and time to help other authors along.

Thank you for this and for your honesty.

Tak skal du har. Meget informativ.

Hello from Australia!  I’ve been to Sweden,  its a great country and the people were great. Back then you could stand on the side of the road and wave your thumb out and someone would pick you up in a matter of minutes and give you a lift. Not sure if that’s the case now. I hitchhiked from Umea to Stockholm without issue!

Your video content was great!  Very well informed. I found the use of translation services you talked about to be of interest. I’m currently in the process of writing my first non fiction self help book on addictions.  My plans will be to skip the developmental edit, but defiantly pour money into line editing, copy editing and proof reading.

I also agree with your comment regarding that it’s better to invest in a good book that will incur organic growth than all the fluffy marketing. Wish you all the best success in your writing.

$1000USD is cheap for a book production and launch.  $3000 is “low cost” on book production and launch

As an Aussie I write books set in Australia and of course use Aussie spelling. Never once had a complaint from an American reader about it. I also have a gig ghost writing for an American client where I have to use US spelling and keep in mind American phrasing. I mostly get away with it because we are equally exposed to UK and US culture, but occasionally I make boo boos. The client's editor picks me up on these things.
Love your videos 👍

Thank you! It feels good to know that other writers go though the same process - including Deeplanguage and ProWritingAid, since I‘m not a native speaker either. Although, at the end I gave it to a native speaker for line editing, costing me 1000 usd.

I also decided for Hybrid at the end, Archway Publishing by Simon&Schuster, they have packages starting with 2000 usd and many services.
I definitely have to check your books, mine is coming out mid September, Thirty Grains of Love, by Anette Rosen.

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Best wishes
Anette

I'm doing the editing of my books myself becauee that's way too expensive. Proofreading will also be done by myself, same as formatting.
The cover is probably the one that will be the most expensive for me, but i'll hire actual aritsts for that.

This isn't expensive for book production. Publishing a novel is a business, and sellable products deserve to be done well. It helps create reader trust to create professionally crafted books. Edits are expensive, I'm spending a lot more on mine, but I'm writing epic fantasy, so it's a long book.

I did 32 drafts of my horror novel. I ain't payin' for no damn developmental editor. I did all that work myself. I've done the line copy editing also, which meant eliminating annoying word repitition, etc. I spent a lot of time looking up synonyms. Lol. And I'm pretty sure I've caught all the typos and spelling errors. Not that there were tons of those. But there are usually more than you think.

14:38 And the most English of the world is a micture of everything. Your readers will not notice The Chicago Tint in your English.

I've been looking for a typewriter like yours. If you don't mind me asking where did you get it from? What is the name of the typewriter? Thank you!

I’m curious if youve had a good experience with the services you’ve used for publishing for an international market? I’m interested in translating into Swedish when my book is done. I’m pretty decent with Swedish conversationally but not professional writer good. I’m curious if many of the self publishing tools over there require a personnummer eller nej.