Cally Lawson Art

For those of you that are thinking of self-publishing your own books, I thought that this update on my first year of self-publishing my poetry books may be helpful.  In the Summer of 2021, I completed my first book of landscape paintings and poetry "Colliding Contrasts". At that time I decided to have it printed myself by Inky Little Fingers and to sell it on my own website, at craft fairs and in local gift shops. I didn't choose Amazon KDP at that time as I was unsure of the colour print quality and wanted my artwork colours to display correctly. Since then, my book has sold consistently well, with local galleries selling it on an almost daily basis.  Late this Summer I published "Distraction in the minutiae" which is in black and white. As this was a short chapbook with no colour, I decided to give Amazon KDP a go. It was a very easy process to upload your book on the KDP site. I also opted to use KDP's cover creator, which was easy to use but has limited