YouTube video by Julie Broad (Book Launchers) giving five concise tips to speed up self-publishing: hire your production team early, minimize go-backs/revisions, use an early draft to solicit endorsements/reviewers, source images and permissions early, and plan the book launch in advance. The advice is project-management focused and aimed at cutting months from a typical self-publishing timeline.
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If you're writing a book and you're working towards a tight timeline, you might be trying to figure out how you can speed up production and get that book done a lot faster. Well, I've got five tips to help you do that, so stick around. Hey there. I'm Julie rodd with book launchers.com if you're writing a book and planning out the timeline, you might be starting to realize that all of the phases of self publishing your book can take a really long time. And if you're deep into it, you may be finding out that some of the pieces, like editing, are taking much longer than you thought. So here's five tips to help you speed up the whole process. Number one, hire your team from the start with we've talked about your team in a different video, so go back and check that out. Knowing who you're going to work with from the start helps you avoid long delays that can happen as you search for the right people to work on your book. Get them all lined up at the beginning and then they'll be ready to work on your book when you're ready for their service. Number two, limit go backs. What does that mean? Well, I'm sure you've done this, you're working away and then you think, you know what, I need to add a quote or you know what, I need to add research or, or I need to get somebody's permission to include this excerpt or image and you're going to go back to it. Well, you think it's going to be faster to just do all of those at the end, but the reality is those go backs can take a ton of time. So really try not to have very many in your book so that when you're done the draft of your book, you're actually done the first draft of your book. Number three, use your best early draft of your book to to solicit contributions, to solicit endorsements, and to get some early reviewers on board to support your book. Doing this when you have a perfect draft will cause a huge delay because people are busy. They won't have time to review your book as quickly as you want them to. So the timeline for launching your book will get extended. If you're waiting for all of these people, so get them an early copy and then you can give them more time to review your book and give you exactly what you need. Number four, source your graphics, get permissions. Figure out the images and the sizes that you need as early as possible. If you wait until your book is done and then add them in after. This is going to extend the timeline on your book project a lot longer. Finally, plan your launch early. Figure out who your launch team is going to be, who your early readers are going to be, and start building support, building momentum early. If you if you plan your launch at the start, then you'll be ready when your book is done. If you try to plan your launch when your book is done now you have to go and solicit all the people to help you get your marketing team, get your early readers, get your reviewers on board after you're done. And you're going to add months and months to your book project. So plan that early too. These five things may all seem simple, but when combined, they'll help you cut months out of your book project so you can create a professional book and do it on a tight timeline like this video. Give it a thumbs up. And of course subscribe to the channel so you can catch all the fantastic time saving, money saving and other tips to help you write, self publish and sell your book. I'll see you here in another video. Bye. Oh geez, maya. She ran right into the camera.
