Pssst! PUBLISH AND THRIVE just re-opened for enrollment! It'll be open for two weeks, so hurry and check it out if you're interested! Here's the link: heartbreathings.teachable.com/courses/publish-and-thrive?affcode=145068_cetumz57
Hello, Bethany I have been following you channel for a while and love it congrats with all you are doing. You inspire others. I looked at the publish and thrive it looks amazing but I am a Children’s Book Indie author. Is there anything of this kind of training and wonderful material for us? I have not found one good children’s author that is open to help others in this way. Any thoughts?
I had a professor once tell me, "Some people just aren't cut out to be a writer," after a mental health crisis kept me from completing a string of assignments - with the heavy implication that I was _some people._ That really knocked the wind out of me and made me give up on my dreams for a while. I think what hurt most was that he was trying to be kind and give sincere advice - looking back though, he just didn't have a clue what I was going through or how I ended up in that situation. At the end of the day, I'm the only person who gets to decide who I am and what I'm capable of.
I had a professor tell me I was a horrible writer and it took me years to get over that and start writing again. Teachers and professors really underestimate the impact they have on their students. So glad you started writing again 😊✍️
I'm so sorry to hear that Annette! It can be really damaging to creativity to deal with poorly handled criticism, so I'm glad you started writing again too!
This video is so REAL, I went to College and my Professor discouraged me🎉 and I believe the negative at that time. During the pandemic and now trying to get back into writing. In my 50s now 😮😮😅
I have both an undergrad degree and a graduate degree in Creative Writing, and I had SO MANY experiences with professors who hated my writing (mostly that I wanted to write genre fiction instead of literary fiction or about vampires that they wouldn't comment on my actual writing style). It's too bad you didn't have others who could have influenced you along with her. I had plenty of them, too. But my MFA also made me stop reading for a while. I learned a lot in school, but writing is the best way to learn how to write.
Really? That's so cool to hear, I had no idea! The Stolen Kingdom is locked into a ridiculous 7 year contract (ACX is very controlling lol) but maybe the next series I can go wide and give that a try! :D Thanks Sarah!
1) Thank you so much for sharing your journey! Your videos are always so inspiring and this was no exception. 2) Zion’s babbling is just the cutest! Soak it up while you can-they grow up so fast! ❤️
Hi Bethany! I'm new here and I absolutely had a similar experience with a professor. Mine was my master's thesis advisor and I had unconditional trust that this person wanted what was best for me. And he didn't. I got seriously depressed and lost confidence in myself completely. It's still pretty fresh and I'm just starting the healing process. I really appreciate hearing that you went through something similar and most importantly that you did move past it.
Congrats on your whole author journey, Bethany! It's always motivating to hear others' self-publishing journeys. You've accomplished so much in such a short amount of time! I hope to achieve what you've achieved as well. Though I'm in the wee early stages of trying to understand the novel writing process, publishing, improving on my skills haha. I'm sorry that your professor wasn't more encouraging. But I'm glad you proved your previous professor wrong and became a successful author. You're a boss lady 💕This video came in at the right time to encourage me! I remind myself that if Bethany can do it, I have no excuses! 😁
Thanks Hana! So glad it's encouraging and you've got this! Beginnings are always slow, but those who stick it out because of passion will always find success! :)
You are such a joy to watch with your baby! Thank you for giving us an inside peek into your author's journey. I made the decision to become self-employed as an author and you just gave a great presentation as to what I can look forward to! I'm actually excited about the journey. As I'm editing my first draft, I'm also networking with proofreaders, editors, and cover artists while talking more about my projects so that people can put me on their radar. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I'm so glad I'm a subscriber to your channel.
I’m on book 3 of the Stolen Kingdom and really love it, so far my favorite part was how you tied books 1 & 2 together :) I’m almost done writing my third book and love your content and advice thank you!
Honestly, your video gave me a hope I didn't know I needed.... I just graduated... I wanna become an author but honestly speaking, my family finances are not in a place where I can take risks.... I am working on a novel for almost a year now since I was a student but I think the idea of becoming an author is making my mind go all over the place... I need to take things slow and work on the way... Nothing will change within a day... I know all these good words... Just needed a reminder when I was getting overwhelmed with the thoughts... And the fact that so many people are becoming successful in this field while it feels like I'm the only one struggling with finance, makes me just lise my mind sometimes 😭😭😭
Yay so glad it was helpful! And if it's encouraging you can actually publish for free or on a very strict budget, check out my video about publishing on a budget for more info on that! :)
Girl this is exactly the video I've been waiting for! You are such a star and I wish you all the best! What a beautiful, blinding light you are, and I know you will achieve all of your dreams for sure.
I love poetry BUT had a similar experience with a professor. She HATED my thoughts about poetry (luckily we didn't have to write poetry for that class-it was a critical thinking class about poetry) and I got really discouraged. I have moved past it but it is really hard when a professor is so discouraging! Glad you moved past it too!
How sad. Teachers are supposed to spur us on, not make us never want to write again. I remember one of my teachers said my strength was my poetry writing. In college, I didn’t appreciate how much she inspired me to write, but now I am truly grateful to her.
Oh my gosh - I got a BA in Creative Writing and I too feel like I’ve learned more about writing after graduation. My professors really believed that the only writing worth reading is contemporary literary fiction, and I couldn’t get behind that. I’m working on my first novel now after taking a break from writing as a result of how discouraging those professors were. Thanks for sharing your story!
Thank you for this video!!! Discovered your channel and your self-publishing course a few months ago, and you've been so helpful and inspirational. I also was burned out after my MFA in 2017. Tried to traditionally publish for years with my YA thesis novel to crickets. Allowed myself to think I wasn't good enough to be an author until you (and a few other) channels helped me realzie publishing on my own is just as, if not more, viable than before. Publishing my debut next summer (even though it's fully edited and my cover design will be finalzied next month), gives me a full year to nail my website and mailing list and grow on social media before then. This video gives me hope and encouragement that I can one day be a full time YA author. THANK YOU, Bethany!!!!
Yay I'm so happy to hear you like the videos! And it can definitely be tough to get started, no matter what avenue. Congratulations on getting past beginning - that's the hardest part!
So cool to hear about your publishing timeline! You’ve accomplished so much in these years, and I’m so excited to see what you’ve got coming in the future! ❤️
As an author I truly love ❤️ and respect your author journey. I'm also an entrepreneur and looking to do both full time. I just published a book this May! 😊 Our backgrounds are similar, I published my first book Life's Reflective Twists in 2017. The other 3 books are educational for ESL students. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. I had a similar experience as a geology major and because my math skills weren't the best, a geology professor told me I should quit the major. I felt so discouraged that I did. It took some years before I found teaching ESL and took a while to fall in love with the profession. I'd never discourage my adult students. That's just horrible. I agree nurture instead of discourage. Now my goal is to do a book signing. Not sure how to go about that but it's my dream. I found your channel not too long ago and love your content. 🥰 I'd love to chat with you, do you have an email I can contact you? You have a beautiful baby! Many blessings 💜🥰😊
Thank you so much Dara, that means a lot! You've got this! And I don't currently offer any one-on-one coaching so I keep my email hidden for the sake of my boundaries, but I appreciate your interest. :) And thank you, he's the best!
Your story is incredible and inspiring, I would love to publish one day, I have a story swimming in my head but when it becomes written word it just doesn't flow properly, I am really hoping your videos can help me turn my mental story into written words and turn that gibberish into something that's worthy of being published that at least one person outside of my family would be willing to read.
Great video Bethany 🥰 Really interesting to see fellow author’s journeys. Mine was querying trad pub without success and then turned to indie pub this summer. It’s taken 20 years (I quit for a few years to start a family) but I’ve finally achieved it. 😊
Inspirational as always. I'm on my journey to becoming a full-time author. I'm at the very start with a few pages left to finish my first draft. 400 pages long. I've got a whole series planned and more books in the works as well. A lot of creative vision without the knowledge of publishing, promotion, or any beta readers and such. I know it will happen in time. It's one of my last real shots at working as well. Physical injuries make it harder to work long times. My mom who passed away a year ago always believed in my writing from the time I was young. She inspired me to keep going when I was close to giving it up. RUclips is one of my other passions. I love creating things and helping people. Any suggestions on where I should go next with the first novel about to be done with the first draft? I have a good friend that's a professional editor and writer herself. She's offered to help me because she believes in my writing too. I have a poetry page that just hit 10k followers. Uh, sorry for rambling on. So many questions I want to ask! Lol. Continue being awesome!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Congratulations on getting so close to finishing a first draft - that's huge! Here's my editing playlist for everything that comes next (and I have a playlist for both publishing and marketing when you get to those stages too!): ruclips.net/p/PL3IFBPbxQRypNRMVsRrxXTqxoG2hNqwv3
@@BethanyAtazadeh Thank you so much. I've watched them once. But I will watch again so I can learn and remember it all. I was thinking about buying Grammarly to help with editing. But some have said to not go that route. A friend has an aunt that owns her own publishing company that helps authors self publish. I actually wonder if you've heard of her. Her name is Beverly Crockett I'd not heard of her company at all. Thank you for all the hard work you do.
@@d3entertainment830 Awesome! I recently finished the first novel in my debut trilogy and am working on Book 2. It's a 1st-person YA high fantasy starring a female protagonist with inhuman strength who has to infiltrate the dark lord's palace and blend in as a maid in order to rescue her friends. I'm still in that scary editing phase of Book 1, lol, but hoping to publish fairly soon.
Interesting good video, especially the thing about learning more about writing after school. I was thinking of going to an accelerated class for my bachelors but my main goal for school was to write better, end goal is yo be a full time author.I hear a lot of people say it’s useless or they never needed it it got into teaching…I don’t want to waste my time or money if I can learn on my own or look into courses or workshops, and books like the one you mentioned.
Oh yeah definitely don’t waste your money, schools don’t know how to teach novelists. Check out online learning opportunities like Masterclasses maybe, and read craft books like Save the Cat-that’s all you need to get started!
Wow, you've accomplished so much, Bethany! I've actually been a subscriber since your Evalene's number days (the OG cover). It's amazing how far you've come as a person (who is now a Mama) and as a writer (you've published HOW MANY books now?). This definitely gave me the proverbial kick in the pants that I needed to get my writing career going. Thanks again!
Congrats on all your books and success. I want to write fulltime but I dont really get any sales. Maybe I should look into advertising more but idk. Nice video, very detailed. I enjoyed it.
Thank you for sharing your author journey! It is supper inspiring for someone who wants to become a self-published author someday. Zion is the cutest and you are such an amazing mom to him. Do you think you will ever branch out and write other fairytale inspired books in Arie's world? (I think in one of your other videos you talked about how you had to pick which fairytales you felt fit the best but you had ideas for others). I would love to see more books in that world (I'm a sucker for fairytale retellings lol!) Keep up the amazing and inspiring work you do, but first and foremost, rest and enjoy your beautiful family.
Love this! So inspirational!! ❤And I'm with you there on the audiobook thing...I did the royalty share so I didn't have to pay anything besides time (which was a lot still) but it's been several months and I haven't sold a single copy of that. Like you, I don't know how to market an audiobook, and a lot of my audience has already bought/read the book, so they aren't very interested in the audiobook of it. I feel so bad for my narrator because she put SO MUCH work and time into this, and she isn't making any money from it so far.
Yay thank you Katie! :D And that was so smart of you to do the royalty share, I wish I'd done that! I feel like there are probably some great strategies for marketing audiobooks, I just don't know them lol...
Thank you so much for sharing your journey, this was really encouraging! Makes me feel better that I’m waiting to publish until I at least have my trilogy finished. ☺️
Yay I'm so glad! And yes, waiting can be a really smart strategy! Although I also learned a lot with each book published that I applied to the next one... basically there's no right answer, there are pros and cons to rapid releases and extended ones haha... but the main thing is we get the books out, that's what counts!
This is so fun to listen to! I’ve always wanted to write the stories that have swarmed my mind. In August of 2020 I started! I’ve written 8 books since then and am coming out with two in the next couple of weeks (one will be free to my email list). It’s very encouraging to hear your story!
Props that your fiction titles are WIDE. That takes cojones. I know because I’m drafting my first novel now and going through wide vs. select anxiety and navel-gazing. My genre is western which is huge in Select but my heart says Wide. No idea.
I loved this video so much. You're so transparent about the process and lessons you learned as well as changes you've made along the way. Your journey videos always fill me with hope for my own journey. It feels truly attainable. What would you change about the launch of the Jinni Key? Just the timing of it? Or were there more things about it you would change. It's my fav book in the series btw 💙💚💙💚
Yay thanks Erica! So glad you enjoyed it! I think I'd slow it down so I could enjoy it (and also the release of the previous book) more, instead of being SUPER stressed for three months lol! But thank you so much, that means a lot to hear!!
@BethanyAtazadeh Do you ever wish you had waited to publish the series until they were all complete? You mentioned that the quick 3 month turnaround (at the time) nearly killed you with stress, so I guess I'm wondering if you wish you had finished that quartet completely before releasing so the readthrough could just be boom-boom-boom-boom and you wouldn't need to stress about power writing/editing the next ones
(10:09) That's similar to my experience in college studying studio art, and philosophy. The drawing "professor" was an unhelpful miserable hag, the painting "professor" might as well have been absent all semester, and the sculpture 'professor' was an unethical grader. Contrary to prevailing post-modern views, not everyone "deserves" an A. The ancient philosophy "professor" was the worst of the bunch. He only taught Plato (albeit a distorted version) and ignored the many other ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. What's more, I found out that the guy didn't have a PhD in philosophy, nor an MA in it, or even a BA in the subject. He only minored in philosophy in undergrad. The guy got the job due to a nepotistic connection with the department chair and was tenured to the college/university before that chair retired. It's because of absurd immoral bullsh*t like this that an increasing number of people believe college/university is one of the biggest scams of the post-modern era.
I dropped out of college because of the dean of the school! Okay so you know that University Experience course that is completely useless but most colleges are requiring now. Well my class was taught by the dean of the school and I had a question about my academic advisor because I had no clue how to contact them so of course I ask in this class. Well I had never met this person and I used the non gender pronoun 'them', trying to be polite right? Well instead of answering my question, the dean of the school decides to tell me that person is a him, and I should use the correct pronoun, because I should know, because I should have already met this person before. Again never met that person before and they didn't have a name that I had encountered before, so I no basis as to which pronoun to use and used 'them', it's not like a used 'her'. Well I finally got an answer to my question and got a meeting with the advisor, just for them to push the school's scheduling on me rather than hearing that I can't keep up with the schedule. I wanted to go from full time classes to part time. So during winter break when it came time to approve the student loans, I had been listening to Dave Ramsey for a week and was like no. I ain't going into this much debt for something I don't even like.
That’s right! The self publishing course. I purchased this but haven’t gone through it yet. I’ve scoured my email and can’t find it. 😔 I’m hoping I didn’t delete it on accident. If I did, what can I do? I’m sorry if it creates more work for you!
Oh nooo! I might first try the link in the pinned comment below this video, that should take you there and then you'd just have to figure out your login or get a new one. Worst comes to worst, you could email Sarra!
Hello, Bethany I have been following you channel for a while and love it congrats with all you are doing. You inspire others. I looked at the publish and thrive it looks amazing but I am a Children’s Book Indie author. Is there anything of this kind of training and wonderful material for us? I have not found one good children’s author that is open to help others in this way. Any thoughts?
Thank you so much! Publish and Thrive will absolutely apply to children's books as well, since it's about publishing, not the writing itself. If you're asking more about the writing side of things, I'm not sure honestly. But you can always check out my free video series on writing children's books - it has everything I know! :) ruclips.net/p/PL3IFBPbxQRyqzp8b2u-tRHu6Lu2uvWnjw
HI, I've been following your journey for a while. I'm almost done with my chemical engineering degree and I'm wondering what to do with masters. I definitely don't want to do anything with my chemical degree but I'm wondering if it's worth it going for a creative writing or an editing degree.
15 so far! I shared it in a screenshot right at the beginning if you wanna see them all together!
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i'm an author too. i was thinking about creating a separate author channel from my travel channel but then i was like that might be much. but i think i might after watching this. WRITERS UNITE!
Pssst! PUBLISH AND THRIVE just re-opened for enrollment! It'll be open for two weeks, so hurry and check it out if you're interested! Here's the link: heartbreathings.teachable.com/courses/publish-and-thrive?affcode=145068_cetumz57
Hello, Bethany I have been following you channel for a while and love it congrats with all you are doing. You inspire others. I looked at the publish and thrive it looks amazing but I am a Children’s Book Indie author. Is there anything of this kind of training and wonderful material for us? I have not found one good children’s author that is open to help others in this way. Any thoughts?
I had a professor once tell me, "Some people just aren't cut out to be a writer," after a mental health crisis kept me from completing a string of assignments - with the heavy implication that I was _some people._ That really knocked the wind out of me and made me give up on my dreams for a while. I think what hurt most was that he was trying to be kind and give sincere advice - looking back though, he just didn't have a clue what I was going through or how I ended up in that situation. At the end of the day, I'm the only person who gets to decide who I am and what I'm capable of.
I had a professor tell me I was a horrible writer and it took me years to get over that and start writing again. Teachers and professors really underestimate the impact they have on their students. So glad you started writing again 😊✍️
I'm so sorry to hear that Annette! It can be really damaging to creativity to deal with poorly handled criticism, so I'm glad you started writing again too!
Teatchers/professors can be dreams killers
I love The Stolen Kingdom series so I am very glad you found your way back to writing 💜
@@GuimberLaiProducer they are probably projecting their own failures onto their students...
This video is so REAL, I went to College and my Professor discouraged me🎉 and I believe the negative at that time. During the pandemic and now trying to get back into writing. In my 50s now 😮😮😅
I have both an undergrad degree and a graduate degree in Creative Writing, and I had SO MANY experiences with professors who hated my writing (mostly that I wanted to write genre fiction instead of literary fiction or about vampires that they wouldn't comment on my actual writing style). It's too bad you didn't have others who could have influenced you along with her. I had plenty of them, too. But my MFA also made me stop reading for a while. I learned a lot in school, but writing is the best way to learn how to write.
Just a shout that if you go wide with any future audiobooks, libraries will be sure to support the heck out of them! Our fastest growing format!
Really? That's so cool to hear, I had no idea! The Stolen Kingdom is locked into a ridiculous 7 year contract (ACX is very controlling lol) but maybe the next series I can go wide and give that a try! :D Thanks Sarah!
1) Thank you so much for sharing your journey! Your videos are always so inspiring and this was no exception.
2) Zion’s babbling is just the cutest! Soak it up while you can-they grow up so fast! ❤️
Absolutely, thanks Tayler! And lol, he's the cutest, but I'm biased haha... thank you!
I am so impressed with every choice you've made. Thank you for sharing your incredible journey of writing while living life as a good person.
Thank you so much!
Hi Bethany! I'm new here and I absolutely had a similar experience with a professor. Mine was my master's thesis advisor and I had unconditional trust that this person wanted what was best for me. And he didn't. I got seriously depressed and lost confidence in myself completely. It's still pretty fresh and I'm just starting the healing process. I really appreciate hearing that you went through something similar and most importantly that you did move past it.
Congrats on your whole author journey, Bethany! It's always motivating to hear others' self-publishing journeys. You've accomplished so much in such a short amount of time!
I hope to achieve what you've achieved as well. Though I'm in the wee early stages of trying to understand the novel writing process, publishing, improving on my skills haha.
I'm sorry that your professor wasn't more encouraging. But I'm glad you proved your previous professor wrong and became a successful author. You're a boss lady 💕This video came in at the right time to encourage me! I remind myself that if Bethany can do it, I have no excuses! 😁
Thanks Hana! So glad it's encouraging and you've got this! Beginnings are always slow, but those who stick it out because of passion will always find success! :)
The right professor can definitely change the game
You are such a joy to watch with your baby! Thank you for giving us an inside peek into your author's journey. I made the decision to become self-employed as an author and you just gave a great presentation as to what I can look forward to! I'm actually excited about the journey. As I'm editing my first draft, I'm also networking with proofreaders, editors, and cover artists while talking more about my projects so that people can put me on their radar. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I'm so glad I'm a subscriber to your channel.
I’m on book 3 of the Stolen Kingdom and really love it, so far my favorite part was how you tied books 1 & 2 together :) I’m almost done writing my third book and love your content and advice thank you!
Honestly, your video gave me a hope I didn't know I needed.... I just graduated... I wanna become an author but honestly speaking, my family finances are not in a place where I can take risks....
I am working on a novel for almost a year now since I was a student but I think the idea of becoming an author is making my mind go all over the place... I need to take things slow and work on the way... Nothing will change within a day... I know all these good words... Just needed a reminder when I was getting overwhelmed with the thoughts...
And the fact that so many people are becoming successful in this field while it feels like I'm the only one struggling with finance, makes me just lise my mind sometimes 😭😭😭
Yay so glad it was helpful! And if it's encouraging you can actually publish for free or on a very strict budget, check out my video about publishing on a budget for more info on that! :)
Hello friend, great weekend. Very nice video. Thank you for sharing. 🌸
Girl this is exactly the video I've been waiting for! You are such a star and I wish you all the best! What a beautiful, blinding light you are, and I know you will achieve all of your dreams for sure.
Aww yay that makes me so happy to hear, thank you so much!
I love poetry BUT had a similar experience with a professor. She HATED my thoughts about poetry (luckily we didn't have to write poetry for that class-it was a critical thinking class about poetry) and I got really discouraged. I have moved past it but it is really hard when a professor is so discouraging! Glad you moved past it too!
How sad. Teachers are supposed to spur us on, not make us never want to write again. I remember one of my teachers said my strength was my poetry writing. In college, I didn’t appreciate how much she inspired me to write, but now I am truly grateful to her.
Oh my gosh - I got a BA in Creative Writing and I too feel like I’ve learned more about writing after graduation. My professors really believed that the only writing worth reading is contemporary literary fiction, and I couldn’t get behind that. I’m working on my first novel now after taking a break from writing as a result of how discouraging those professors were. Thanks for sharing your story!
Yeah it's really odd to look back and realize they dismiss almost all the genres I love to read lol! Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this video!!! Discovered your channel and your self-publishing course a few months ago, and you've been so helpful and inspirational. I also was burned out after my MFA in 2017. Tried to traditionally publish for years with my YA thesis novel to crickets. Allowed myself to think I wasn't good enough to be an author until you (and a few other) channels helped me realzie publishing on my own is just as, if not more, viable than before. Publishing my debut next summer (even though it's fully edited and my cover design will be finalzied next month), gives me a full year to nail my website and mailing list and grow on social media before then. This video gives me hope and encouragement that I can one day be a full time YA author. THANK YOU, Bethany!!!!
Yay I'm so happy to hear you like the videos! And it can definitely be tough to get started, no matter what avenue. Congratulations on getting past beginning - that's the hardest part!
So cool to hear about your publishing timeline! You’ve accomplished so much in these years, and I’m so excited to see what you’ve got coming in the future! ❤️
Thanks Jessi!! You've been a big part of it, so thankful for you! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I love the Zion noises! Makes my heart smile to hear the baby noises :)
Zion is so cute! 💖 I'm currently enrolled in your Academy and LOVE it!!! I hope to start self publishing next year. 🤞 Ty for your transparency!
As an author I truly love ❤️ and respect your author journey. I'm also an entrepreneur and looking to do both full time. I just published a book this May! 😊 Our backgrounds are similar, I published my first book Life's Reflective Twists in 2017. The other 3 books are educational for ESL students. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. I had a similar experience as a geology major and because my math skills weren't the best, a geology professor told me I should quit the major. I felt so discouraged that I did. It took some years before I found teaching ESL and took a while to fall in love with the profession. I'd never discourage my adult students. That's just horrible. I agree nurture instead of discourage. Now my goal is to do a book signing. Not sure how to go about that but it's my dream.
I found your channel not too long ago and love your content. 🥰 I'd love to chat with you, do you have an email I can contact you?
You have a beautiful baby! Many blessings 💜🥰😊
Thank you so much Dara, that means a lot! You've got this! And I don't currently offer any one-on-one coaching so I keep my email hidden for the sake of my boundaries, but I appreciate your interest. :) And thank you, he's the best!
@@BethanyAtazadeh I totally understand. Thanks so much for replying back to me and for the encouragement! I really appreciate it ❤️💙💜
Your story is incredible and inspiring, I would love to publish one day, I have a story swimming in my head but when it becomes written word it just doesn't flow properly, I am really hoping your videos can help me turn my mental story into written words and turn that gibberish into something that's worthy of being published that at least one person outside of my family would be willing to read.
Thank you so much! You've got this!
Great video Bethany 🥰 Really interesting to see fellow author’s journeys. Mine was querying trad pub without success and then turned to indie pub this summer. It’s taken 20 years (I quit for a few years to start a family) but I’ve finally achieved it. 😊
Thanks Alex! I am definitely biased, but indie pub is awesome - hope you love it!
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Really enjoying it! It’s my dream job 🥰
Zion, you steal the show! So cute! Great video, Bethany!
Haha he does! My fave part of this video was adding captions to his noises LOL... thank you!
Thank you! This video helped me remember what I want out of life. I absolutely love your book covers too! Wish you the best!
Love this video! I can't wait for The Secret Shadow and The Secret Curse! I'm also looking forward to the nonfiction book! ❤️
Thanks Heather! Sooo excited for you to read them too!! :D
Inspirational as always. I'm on my journey to becoming a full-time author. I'm at the very start with a few pages left to finish my first draft. 400 pages long. I've got a whole series planned and more books in the works as well.
A lot of creative vision without the knowledge of publishing, promotion, or any beta readers and such. I know it will happen in time. It's one of my last real shots at working as well. Physical injuries make it harder to work long times. My mom who passed away a year ago always believed in my writing from the time I was young. She inspired me to keep going when I was close to giving it up.
RUclips is one of my other passions. I love creating things and helping people. Any suggestions on where I should go next with the first novel about to be done with the first draft? I have a good friend that's a professional editor and writer herself.
She's offered to help me because she believes in my writing too. I have a poetry page that just hit 10k followers. Uh, sorry for rambling on. So many questions I want to ask! Lol. Continue being awesome!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Congratulations on getting so close to finishing a first draft - that's huge! Here's my editing playlist for everything that comes next (and I have a playlist for both publishing and marketing when you get to those stages too!): ruclips.net/p/PL3IFBPbxQRypNRMVsRrxXTqxoG2hNqwv3
@@BethanyAtazadeh Thank you so much. I've watched them once. But I will watch again so I can learn and remember it all. I was thinking about buying Grammarly to help with editing. But some have said to not go that route. A friend has an aunt that owns her own publishing company that helps authors self publish. I actually wonder if you've heard of her. Her name is Beverly Crockett I'd not heard of her company at all. Thank you for all the hard work you do.
Cool! What's your book about?
@@authorjgamber it's a YA book about witches. Done a bit differently than normal. It's almost complete, now.
@@d3entertainment830 Awesome! I recently finished the first novel in my debut trilogy and am working on Book 2. It's a 1st-person YA high fantasy starring a female protagonist with inhuman strength who has to infiltrate the dark lord's palace and blend in as a maid in order to rescue her friends. I'm still in that scary editing phase of Book 1, lol, but hoping to publish fairly soon.
Interesting good video, especially the thing about learning more about writing after school. I was thinking of going to an accelerated class for my bachelors but my main goal for school was to write better, end goal is yo be a full time author.I hear a lot of people say it’s useless or they never needed it it got into teaching…I don’t want to waste my time or money if I can learn on my own or look into courses or workshops, and books like the one you mentioned.
Oh yeah definitely don’t waste your money, schools don’t know how to teach novelists. Check out online learning opportunities like Masterclasses maybe, and read craft books like Save the Cat-that’s all you need to get started!
I love your Writing a Book with a Baby series! :)
Yay! Thanks Jaime!
Just released my first book! This video was so motivating for me. Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations! So glad you enjoyed it!
I cannot wait until the rest of the Jezebel series comes out! I loved the first one and am currently working my way through the Stolen Kingdom series.
Yayyy! So excited for you to read the full series! :D
@@BethanyAtazadeh Finished The Stolen Kingdom and now onto The Jinni Key 😁 Your creativity in this story and world you’ve built just blows me away 😊
Wow, you've accomplished so much, Bethany! I've actually been a subscriber since your Evalene's number days (the OG cover).
It's amazing how far you've come as a person (who is now a Mama) and as a writer (you've published HOW MANY books now?).
This definitely gave me the proverbial kick in the pants that I needed to get my writing career going. Thanks again!
Completely unrelated to your comment but I LOVE your name! Ive never heard of it before!
Yay for the OG youtube days haha! Thank you so much Avionne, that means a lot to hear. You've got this!
@@lexiehulsey283 Thanks so much!
Bethany, good work done. Infact you have really motivated me through this video. No more time wasting if l want to be a great author.
Great video. I am impressed by the number of books you manage to get out per year. I barely manage two unpolished manuscripts in that timeframe.
This was so motivational and inspirational to hear! Thank you for sharing your story. You've accomplished a ton in 5 years.
Yay! So happy to hear that, glad you enjoyed it!
This video was really interesting *and* oddly inspirational. Thanks for sharing!!
Congrats on all your books and success. I want to write fulltime but I dont really get any sales. Maybe I should look into advertising more but idk. Nice video, very detailed. I enjoyed it.
Thank you for sharing your author journey! It is supper inspiring for someone who wants to become a self-published author someday. Zion is the cutest and you are such an amazing mom to him.
Do you think you will ever branch out and write other fairytale inspired books in Arie's world? (I think in one of your other videos you talked about how you had to pick which fairytales you felt fit the best but you had ideas for others). I would love to see more books in that world (I'm a sucker for fairytale retellings lol!)
Keep up the amazing and inspiring work you do, but first and foremost, rest and enjoy your beautiful family.
Love this! So inspirational!! ❤And I'm with you there on the audiobook thing...I did the royalty share so I didn't have to pay anything besides time (which was a lot still) but it's been several months and I haven't sold a single copy of that. Like you, I don't know how to market an audiobook, and a lot of my audience has already bought/read the book, so they aren't very interested in the audiobook of it. I feel so bad for my narrator because she put SO MUCH work and time into this, and she isn't making any money from it so far.
Yay thank you Katie! :D And that was so smart of you to do the royalty share, I wish I'd done that! I feel like there are probably some great strategies for marketing audiobooks, I just don't know them lol...
Thank you so much for sharing your journey, this was really encouraging! Makes me feel better that I’m waiting to publish until I at least have my trilogy finished. ☺️
Yay I'm so glad! And yes, waiting can be a really smart strategy! Although I also learned a lot with each book published that I applied to the next one... basically there's no right answer, there are pros and cons to rapid releases and extended ones haha... but the main thing is we get the books out, that's what counts!
Wow, you've done a lot in the last five years!
This is so fun to listen to! I’ve always wanted to write the stories that have swarmed my mind. In August of 2020 I started! I’ve written 8 books since then and am coming out with two in the next couple of weeks (one will be free to my email list). It’s very encouraging to hear your story!
Woohoo! You're rocking it, that's amazing!! It's so cool to look back and see progress too, most people never write even one book, so you're amazing!
Thank you! You’re quite amazing for keeping your business successful while having a baby!
I really think , you are great at these books.
Highly inspiring! Thank you for sharing this complete overview 💜
Glad you enjoyed it!
An inspiring journey! Thank you for sharing it my friend :)
Love your story❤❤❤ best of luck to you and yr family
Thank you!
Props that your fiction titles are WIDE. That takes cojones. I know because I’m drafting my first novel now and going through wide vs. select anxiety and navel-gazing. My genre is western which is huge in Select but my heart says Wide. No idea.
I loved this video so much. You're so transparent about the process and lessons you learned as well as changes you've made along the way. Your journey videos always fill me with hope for my own journey. It feels truly attainable.
What would you change about the launch of the Jinni Key? Just the timing of it? Or were there more things about it you would change. It's my fav book in the series btw 💙💚💙💚
Yay thanks Erica! So glad you enjoyed it! I think I'd slow it down so I could enjoy it (and also the release of the previous book) more, instead of being SUPER stressed for three months lol! But thank you so much, that means a lot to hear!!
First children book for me in 2022 yr. Good luck or hoping for you and your baby, too.
Loved this video Beth... and your son is adorable... 🤗... just put some black kajal before showing him to protect him from evil eyes 😊
Thank you so much!
@BethanyAtazadeh Do you ever wish you had waited to publish the series until they were all complete? You mentioned that the quick 3 month turnaround (at the time) nearly killed you with stress, so I guess I'm wondering if you wish you had finished that quartet completely before releasing so the readthrough could just be boom-boom-boom-boom and you wouldn't need to stress about power writing/editing the next ones
So very inspiring. I wish I could figure out what's holding me back.
Good luck figuring it out! Sometimes it takes me a while to nail down the problem too, you've got this!
Great job. I'm in print in my children's book for this Easter 🐇🐢🐿️ in 2023 yr. But should be out in Oct or Nov. Hoping but it is a Easter Hunt book.
You’re so determined.x
Definitely!
No disrespect intended but you have become my new Chris Fox, excellent stuff.
That's a high compliment, Chris Fox is awesome!
Congratulations!
(10:09) That's similar to my experience in college studying studio art, and philosophy. The drawing "professor" was an unhelpful miserable hag, the painting "professor" might as well have been absent all semester, and the sculpture 'professor' was an unethical grader. Contrary to prevailing post-modern views, not everyone "deserves" an A. The ancient philosophy "professor" was the worst of the bunch. He only taught Plato (albeit a distorted version) and ignored the many other ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. What's more, I found out that the guy didn't have a PhD in philosophy, nor an MA in it, or even a BA in the subject. He only minored in philosophy in undergrad. The guy got the job due to a nepotistic connection with the department chair and was tenured to the college/university before that chair retired. It's because of absurd immoral bullsh*t like this that an increasing number of people believe college/university is one of the biggest scams of the post-modern era.
Love this.
Thank you!
How do you available on KDP Manuscript and Book cover. Mine's ERRORS HOW TO FIX THEM EASILY. ? THANKS FOR IT.
I dropped out of college because of the dean of the school! Okay so you know that University Experience course that is completely useless but most colleges are requiring now. Well my class was taught by the dean of the school and I had a question about my academic advisor because I had no clue how to contact them so of course I ask in this class. Well I had never met this person and I used the non gender pronoun 'them', trying to be polite right? Well instead of answering my question, the dean of the school decides to tell me that person is a him, and I should use the correct pronoun, because I should know, because I should have already met this person before. Again never met that person before and they didn't have a name that I had encountered before, so I no basis as to which pronoun to use and used 'them', it's not like a used 'her'. Well I finally got an answer to my question and got a meeting with the advisor, just for them to push the school's scheduling on me rather than hearing that I can't keep up with the schedule. I wanted to go from full time classes to part time. So during winter break when it came time to approve the student loans, I had been listening to Dave Ramsey for a week and was like no. I ain't going into this much debt for something I don't even like.
That's such a bummer you had a bad experience, but glad you made the decision to change things!
That’s right! The self publishing course. I purchased this but haven’t gone through it yet. I’ve scoured my email and can’t find it. 😔 I’m hoping I didn’t delete it on accident. If I did, what can I do? I’m sorry if it creates more work for you!
Oh nooo! I might first try the link in the pinned comment below this video, that should take you there and then you'd just have to figure out your login or get a new one. Worst comes to worst, you could email Sarra!
Oh I’m sorry, I meant for your course. 😆 I remember I bought it for (maybe $15) but then I wasn’t able to follow up and watch it right away.
Hello, Bethany I have been following you channel for a while and love it congrats with all you are doing. You inspire others. I looked at the publish and thrive it looks amazing but I am a Children’s Book Indie author. Is there anything of this kind of training and wonderful material for us? I have not found one good children’s author that is open to help others in this way. Any thoughts?
Thank you so much! Publish and Thrive will absolutely apply to children's books as well, since it's about publishing, not the writing itself. If you're asking more about the writing side of things, I'm not sure honestly. But you can always check out my free video series on writing children's books - it has everything I know! :) ruclips.net/p/PL3IFBPbxQRyqzp8b2u-tRHu6Lu2uvWnjw
i'm having trouble selling my book can you please help me?
How do you come up with your prices some are $30, $34.30 & $43.41 AUD prices on Amazon. Just wondering where these numbers come from?
I think Amazon is doing those prices, I price the books all the same in U.S. pricing
I am inspired
HI, I've been following your journey for a while. I'm almost done with my chemical engineering degree and I'm wondering what to do with masters. I definitely don't want to do anything with my chemical degree but I'm wondering if it's worth it going for a creative writing or an editing degree.
Definitely not worth it. You can learn more from the internet and books for much cheaper.
@@BethanyAtazadeh true, thought I was thinking about getting a job in that sector.
"It was going to be a short story" LOL every author has said this at some point
Haha yes!
Excellent video but overwhelming. I'm just gonna dive in. Ignore the crazy costs to start...I think.
Whats a full time " youtuber"?
Five books in one year? What were they like 60 pages each?
Lol nope. 150-300+ each. Like I said in the video they weren't WRITTEN that year, they were PUBLISHED that year.
How many books do you have published so far in total of your author journey- I lost track lol
15 so far! I shared it in a screenshot right at the beginning if you wanna see them all together!
i'm an author too. i was thinking about creating a separate author channel from my travel channel but then i was like that might be much. but i think i might after watching this. WRITERS UNITE!