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CHECKLIST FOR INDIE AUTHORS

SELF-PUBLISHING
CHECKLIST
Create a budget Finalize tagline/hook
Choose a release date or season Finalize book blurb
Create an LLC or company (optional) Finalize trigger warnings (if necessary)
Finalize book title Choose book size (inches)
Finalize series title (if applicable) Hire cover designer

Hire a graphic designer for marketing

Hire a developmental editor
materials (bookmarks,
Hire a copyeditor
social media images, etc.)
Hire a proofreader
Complete the developmental edit
Hire the maker of the map (for SF/F)
Ask for blurbs
Hire a character artist (optional)
Complete copyedit

Complete proofreading Purchase ISBNs

Format the ebook
Finalize the ebook cover
Format paperback and/or hardcover
Finalize the audiobook cover Reach out to cover designer to finalize
Get additional files from cover designer paperback and hardcover spreads
(layered PSD of front cover, title page, Final proofread
images for chapter headers, fonts, etc.) File copyright

File information for library distribution

Set up preorders
*Research Amazon categories
Hold audiobook narrator auditions
(Publisher Rocket, K-lytics)
Upload to print-on-demand company Create Audiobook with Narrator
Approve ebook proof Reach out to ACX (or audiobook platform)
Order paperback/hardcover proofs about setting up audiobook preorder
Distribute to Amazon, iBooks, Google Play, Approve audiobook
Barnes & Noble, Kobo, & ebook aggregators Distribute audiobook

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