July 8, 2026
Jed Byrne - Self-Publishing Your First Book
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Business development director and Raleigh commercial real estate enthusiast Jed Byrne joined me on Ditching Hourly to walk through the entire process of self-publishing his first book, Start Small Selling, from idea validation to Kickstarter funding to final production, all on a $5,000 budget.
NOTE: We shared a metric ton of resources for self-published authors, and I linked to everything in the show notes.
Chapters
- Who Is Jed Byrne?
- The Hyper-Local Newsletter
- Why Write a Book?
- Testing the Idea
- The Writing Process
- The Kickstarter
- Building the Editing Team
- The Timeline
- Working with a Developmental Editor
- Designing the Cover
- Publishing with KDP and Lulu
- Start Small, Start Now
Guest’s Bio
Jed Byrne is a business development director at Barnhill Building Group, a North Carolina-based general contracting firm. Outside his day job, he runs Oak City CRE, a platform focused on Raleigh commercial real estate that includes a weekly Substack newsletter with around 2,000 subscribers, a podcast, consulting, and his first book, Start Small Selling. You can reach Jed at books@oakcitycre.com for a free digital copy.
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Yours,
—J