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Do It Yourself · DIY Publishing Journey

Publish independently with intelligent step-by-step guidance for your book.

The DIY Publishing Journey gives a first-time author a clear publishing path for one book. You stay in control and do the publishing work. We provide the path, the explanations and the guidance.

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DIY Publishing Journey

$297

One book · Six months

One-time payment. No subscription. No automatic renewal.

  • 10 guided publishing milestones
  • A project-aware Publishing Director
  • Your work stays saved when the term ends

Renewing that same book is $297 for another six months. A different book is its own journey.

You do the work. We remove the guessing.

Your journey gives you structure, plain-English explanations, the standard decisions to make at each stage, and a Publishing Director that already knows where your book is. What it does not include:

  • Manuscript writing or editing
  • Cover design or interior formatting
  • File repair or file preparation
  • Uploading or submitting to KDP or any platform
  • Human review or approval of your files

Want a person alongside you? Guided Publishing adds structured human review. Want it done for you? Done For You coordinates the production work.

One system, four free stages

Free tools that work on their own.

These tools are free to use, in the order most authors find them useful. The DIY Publishing Journey adds a saved project, persistent milestones and a Director that knows your book.

  1. 01

    Find out where the book stands

    Publishing Starting Point

    A guided set of questions about the project — manuscript stage, editing, production and setup — showing where your book stands and what comes next instead of a guess.

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  2. 02

    Learn the decisions

    Self-Publishing Foundations

    A free written course covering what happens between a finished manuscript and a published book, in the order it happens.

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  3. 03

    Ask questions and track the book

    Publishing Director + Book Publishing Profile

    Ask publishing questions in plain English. Answers can be related to what you have recorded about your book, and confirmed decisions are remembered in this browser.

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  4. 04

    Work the plan

    Publishing Action Plan

    Your recorded decisions and open items become a plan with a sensible next step, so you always know what to do next.

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Always free

Ask a publishing question in plain English.

The Publishing Director answers publishing questions from Self Publish Me's guidance, and can relate the answer to what you have told it about your book. Confirmed decisions are remembered in this browser as your Book Publishing Profile, so it can show where the book stands and point to a sensible next move. It never writes or reviews manuscript content, and it does not take actions on your behalf.

The Publishing Director is free. The DIY Publishing Journey is the paid, persistent, book-specific path.

Good first questions

  • “Which publishing path fits me?”
  • “What should I do next?”
  • “Do I need an ISBN?”
  • “How does Amazon KDP work?”
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Honest limits

When DIY stops being DIY.

Plenty of authors publish well on their own. Some get part-way and decide they want a person involved. Either is a reasonable outcome, and nothing here changes if you stay on this path.

Free, always

A publishing consultation

If you'd rather talk something through with a person, the publishing consultation is free and has no obligation.

Learn about the free consultation

Guided Publishing

You want professional review

If you still want to do the work but want your progress and decisions reviewed at defined points, Guided Publishing is the paid program for that.

Explore Guided Publishing

Done For You

You want it handled

If you decide you'd rather have the professional production and Amazon KDP setup coordinated for you, that starts with an assessment of your project.

Compare the paths