Poetry for Mental Health can help you self-publish your poetry collection / manuscript via your own Amazon KDP platform (we'll guide you through opening up a publishing account if you don't already have one - it's linked to your regular Amazon account).

We can:

• Format your manuscript for paperback and Kindle.
• Register the title, author, ISBN, key words, etc.
• Design a cover (front/back and spine).
• Download and publish completed print-ready files (body, cover) and then publish in both paperback and Kindle to the global Amazon KDP platforms. Amazon Print on Demand books are available in 13 countries worldwide - click on any of our books to view the countries this service currently covers.

Also includes a FEATURED POET page on this website showcasing a few examples from your book.

Once this is published we then hand the Amazon account back to you, so you get paid royalties directly from Amazon every month - we don't have any further access to your account - you earn 100% royalties on every unit you sell. You can also order up to 999 author copies at a time directly from Amazon at cost (roughly 50-60% of the retail value) for you to sell, giveaway, etc.

If you decide to go ahead we will need:

• The completed manuscript.
• Title (subtitle) and author's name exactly as you'd like it registered.
• The blurb for the back and for Amazon book's description.
• The author's bio.
• An author's picture for the back (optional, but quite a few books do have the author on the back cover).
• Extra pages, eg foreword, dedication page, acknowledgments etc.
• An idea for the cover image/design, or your own image (at 300 dpi please for paperback publishing).

Depending upon your manuscript, and any extra work that needs to be done to get it publisher-ready, prices start from just £150.00 for chapbooks / shorter collections of up to around 50 pages, and £250.00 (GBP), for collections between 50 and 150 pages. This is for both paperback and Kindle versions, and includes the cover! Contact me for larger collections / multiple collections / and / or prose only manuscripts. In terms of turnaround, depending upon the status of your manuscript, and your requirements for the cover etc, you could probably have a book through your letterbox in a couple of weeks from the go ahead!