How I Self-Published My First Book of Poetry - Part 1 - Getting Started (and buy my book with Steem!)

For as long as I can remember I wanted to publish a book. I have been writing poetry and song lyrics since I was a teenager and I finally put together a collection that I felt was worthy of publishing.

With the technology available to us today, it makes it very easy to self-publish a book and run a publishing company from our own home. In this post, I am going to show you how I self-published my own book of poetry.

Please see my signature to find out how you can buy a copy of my book using Steem or SBD!

The first thing we have to do is to go to www.createspace.com and click the button that says Start a Title for Free. If you have a Create Space account you can sign in, but if not you'll have to create a free account.

Next we have to choose the name of our project. Don't worry, this can be changed later so if you want to use a working title that's perfectly fine. You also have to select the type of project you are working on. In this case, we are going to select a paperback book.

Now we can select if we want to use the guided setup or the expert setup. If you are new at this I would suggest using the guided setup as it is very good at giving you all the information you need as you go along. Click the Get Started button to continue.

We now have to enter some basic information about the book. The first options are Title and Sub-title. The title should automatically be filled in based on what you entered earlier. Don't forget, you can change this at any time. If you have a sub-title you can also enter it, but it's optional.

The next step is to enter your name as the author.

Finally, we have some information to enter, most of which is optional. You can add additional contributors such as illustrators, editors, photographers etc if they exist, you can add an edition number, or if the book is part of a series. The only mandatory field is the language field. Once you have done so, click Save if you want to save and pick up where you left off later, or click Save and Continue if you want to keep going.

Now we have to choose an ISBN number for our book. And ISBN number is necessary for publishing a book. The easiest way to do this is to allow Create Space to assign an ISBN for you, although you can purchase one yourself. Remember, if you choose to have them assign you an ISBN, it cannot be changed. Click Assign Free ISBN to continue

There you have it. We have now started the process of self-publishing a book on Create Space. In Part 2 we will start to design the actual book itself. Stay tuned!

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I am Scott. I write poetry and lyrics and sometimes I write about life. Please upvote and follow. I always follow back. :

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