Why I Self-Published

In case you don’t know yet, on Wednesday, January 27th 2021, my first book About a Girl: a Compilation of Journal Entries, Volume 1 was released.

I self-published via Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and when I was preparing the second draft of the book [the first draft being the OG entries in 2018] the thought of going any other route didn’t make sense to me because who am I? lol… I’m releasing this sort of memoir into the world and outside of “God told me to this” I didn’t have any pitch.

Not to say that it isn’t enough, because it is, but publishing companies aren’t going to publish something from a “nobody” just because she said God told her to.

Those were my thoughts and so the most logical thing to do was self-publish. The technology exists for situations like this and the more I thought about it the more reasonable it felt. This book is all me and God and its raw and transparent and might not necessarily appeal to everyone, so it needed freedom.

I like the idea of just working on it with God; Him being the only one giving me instructions, because ultimately, His opinion is the only one that matters.

In order to be a good steward of what God gave me, I needed to ensure that He would be the one in control.

As such, unless God sends a publishing company that understands that my orders come from Yahweh, I will be self-publishing in the future as well.

I don’t believe I lose anything because this is God’s book. My job was to put it out there - and of course, I’ll promote it to the best of my abilities, but I leave the rest to Him. He’ll place it in the hands of those that need to read it one way or another.

If the 18 copies that I’ve sold so far (10 ebooks, 8 paperbacks) are the only ones that I ever sell, it’s all good, because God is going to impact the lives of those 18 people.

I won’t sit here and say that self-publishing was easy, because it wasn’t. Getting the cover the right size was probably the hardest part of the entire ordeal, took me almost two months - but now I have the format and so future copies will be much easier.

You just have to give it a shot. Once you do it once, you will be better the next time, and even better the time after that.

So don’t let fear hold you back from doing what God has called you to do.