24 things I learned self publishing 3 books in only 6 months

 

After I published my first book, it took six years before I published my second book. Today, only six months after publishing my second book, I’m publishing my fourth book.

I’ve self published three books in the past six months. What triggered such a change? It started when Seth Godin told me this on my podcast:

“If you’re publishing yourself, you have the most committed publisher in the world…. You’re still going to be the head of marketing for your book. So how do you learn that? Well, you learn it by doing. And the easiest way to do it…is to come out with a book a week on the Kindle…. It costs nothing to do this. It costs less than it cost me to mail my proposals to book publishers. So what are you waiting for!?” — Seth Godin

Seth was right. I’ve learned so much more by doing — by self publishing three books in six months — than I learned by traditionally publishing one book, and waiting six years to publish the next one.

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