Sex can sell just about anything. Books, food, jewelry and even spiritual enlightenment. But when marketing a book about sexual trauma, sex could do more harm than good. Learn the recipe for how to market your work to finicky audiences. And hear how I lost $1300 in the process.

If they aren't careful, creatives can get lost In their creations. This episode talks about taking care of your mental health and ways to do it when you're a crazy writer type.

A candid, explorative conversation into the thoughts and feelings of Aziza Kibibi as a 9 year old child while she's being sexually abused by her father, MTV Music Video award winning Director, Aswad Ayinde.

In this episode I share my tried and true hacks on organizing and keeping track of ideas and information for your book, my experience going to school for the first time at 35 years old, and the aftermath of appearing on Katie.

After a challenging year, I'm sure we are all more appreciative of our loved ones. This bonus episode is a special note of appreciation to my listeners and everyone who has contributed to the production and publishing of Self Published. Thank you.

Update! New episodes now available on Wednesdays. Also, I’ll be posting episodes biweekly instead of weekly, and I was a guest on "Speaking of Crime". Links in the show notes.

From the challenges of motivating yourself when you are your own boss, to going head to head with naysayers, making your dreams a reality requires tough skin and a stash of tricks in your back pocket. This week I talk about how I recovered from having my family turn their back on me.

Self publishing a book is even more challenging when you're a mom. Challenging yes; impossible, not. In this episode I talk about ways to market and garner public interest in your projects, maternal instinct and studies on why some mothers don't protect their children.

In this episode I share tips on self promotion, how having many talents can make you very resourceful, and my process for using public feedback in designing and choosing the cover of my book.

Raw, uncut private conversation about pedophilia and homosexuality based on the authors experience in life as it pertains to the "original plan" and purpose of humans. Yes, this was all part of the publishing process.

In episode 3: A mom plays a huge role in her daughter's development. But some mothers really know how to sabotage. Also, the importance of self promotion as an independent author verses one signed to a publisher.

On this episode of Self Published, I share information on free legal advice for artists, resources on preventing and recovering from abuse, and my state of mind in preparing to confront my father in court for molesting and raping me.

Along with advice on writing a query letter and finding a literary agent, "Query: Episode 1 of Self Published is a menage narrative of the first post of "Unashamed An Open Book", comments and questions from readers and fans and sidebars of drama from behind the scenes.

I am Aziza Kibibi and I'm so excited to share with you my journey as a self published author. "Self Published" chronicles much of what I was going through the 4 years it took me to write and publish my book Unashamed: a life tainted...vols. 1 and 2. You'll listen to stories of my process and life, which include everything from my attempts at securing a traditional publisher, to getting an opportunity to promote my book on the ABC talk show "Katie!" before I even finished writing it, and the many tools and resources I used to keep myself motivated through the entire ordeal to get it done. In this 10 episode season, Every Monday starting September 14, 2020, I will upload a podcast episode that is an eloquent mash-up of my archived blog posts "Unashamed an Open Book," and my journal entries correlating with the publishing of the blog. Those tasty nuggets will be accompanied by insight, resources and advice on self-publishing a book. And to top it all off, it will be accented by a couple of dashes of crazy that was going on behind the scenes. So If you are a budding author, a fellow human living a life that deserves to be surrounded by letterbox complete with opening and closing credits, a person who wants to share their story to help the world, or someone who just enjoys listening to interesting life experiences, then this podcast is for you. "We are walking stories. Rarely opening our pages to others for fear of their judgments and criticisms." - Aziza Kibibi