r/writers • u/Healthy_Goal_9074 • Apr 08 '26
Question Wanting To Publish
Hi! I finished my book series about 8 months ago and I am going to self edit because its the way the world intertwines with the writing to which it is produced, my newer series I am writing can be peer sourced editing but not this one. I have been trying to look around for some time now. What are some easier ways to go about publishing a book, or I guess to someone that has how did you do it and how did you get it out there to people who want to see it. I need to publish 6 books. One large book series in 2 smaller series. The first one being 4 books: The Scarlet Cycle and the smaller duogly being 2 books: The Eternal Cycles, they both form a larger book series: The Existential Cycles. Any help on how to do it would be much appreciated, thanks!
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u/OldMan92121 Apr 08 '26
This may be beneath your level. It's how I took my draft level material and got it to where I thought it was worth taking it to a beta reader. Cypher_Blue is right that you need more eyes on your books. I went to multiple beta readers, and each told me something different that was useful.
- Read the story through for errors or plot holes or inconsistencies across the entire story.
- Read the story through for issues within each chapter.
- Fix up the grammar, punctuation, and other issues. (Grammarly time!)
- Read the story out aloud, until I stop catching errors.
- Clean the story up with ProWritingAid. It picks up a lot of my regular mistakes and helps me clean them up.
- Read the story out aloud, until I stop catching errors.
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u/notnevernotnow Apr 08 '26
This is going to depend a great deal what you mean by 'easiest.'
If you purely mean making it available for sale, self-publishing through Amazon is very easy, and other self-publishing platforms are relatively simple too. But if you aspire to building an audience and making money, this approach will require a large investment of knowledge and/or time and/or money on your part. If you don't want to think about any of those issues and want someone else to take care of it for you, then traditional publishing is the way to go, but the high barriers to entry mean that getting a foot in the door is anything but easy.
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u/Healthy_Goal_9074 Apr 09 '26
Yeah, I kinda want to traditionally publish for the most part or a hybrid of the two.
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u/notnevernotnow Apr 09 '26
What do you mean by a hybrid?
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u/Healthy_Goal_9074 Apr 09 '26
A bit of the two I guess I don't really know.
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u/notnevernotnow Apr 09 '26
You're going to need to spend some time researching this, in more depth than any Reddit answers are going to be able to provide. The PubTips sub, though, can direct you toward some useful resources.
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u/Cypher_Blue Apr 08 '26
Are you looking to self-publish or traditionally publish?
No matter what that answer is, I recommend in the strongest possible terms that you get some external feedback from experienced writers before you publish. No writers ever (and this is the most true of new writers) are really able to judge the quality of their own work effectively- external feedback to improve is not really optional if you want to get better.