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Publishing Your Poetry Chapbook: A Master Course
​Coming Soon!! 

The poetry chapbook is often the first book a poet creates. Even veteran poets who have published many full-length books get into the trend of releasing smaller chapbooks on specific themes or topics or in response to specific poetry challenges, forms etc. 

People use poetry chapbooks as gifts, legacy pieces, as a sampling of their work for potential features and more. 

The publishers at Local Gems Press have helped over 500 poets publish, print, or create poetry chapbooks, for various reasons. 

We've had a lot of requests for a more in-depth course specifically focusing on publishing or printing a poetry chapbook and that's exactly what we've done! 
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In This Course:
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Your Goals For Your Chapbook

Understanding the reasons why one might put together a chapbook from family history, or commercial distribution. 

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Finding A Traditional Publisher

How to research and connect with traditional publishers and how to submit your book in a way that is much more likely to get accepted for publication. 
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Book Formatting

Learn all about book-formatting, the various book sizes, how you can easily learn to format yourself, or various places you can hire someone to format the book for you and save you the time! 

To Publish or Print

Learn the pros and cons and in and outs of the traditional publishing market for chapbooks as well as the various options for self-publishing and printing smaller print runs for more personal purposes. 

Finding A Printer

Learn the various major platforms that are available for self-publishing and printing at the moment, the pros and cons and in-depth discussions about each as well as some most don't think of! 

Cover-Art, ISBNs, Copyrights

Learn about how to get cover-art, whether or not you need an ISBN and how to get them, and FAQs about copyrighting your work. 

And much more! 


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In the meantime, check out our free Mini-Course on Poetry Chapbooks!! When you join the list on the left, we'll send you right to this free Mini-Course! 
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