How to BookTok! | Guide to Getting Started on TikTok, How to Do Transitions

This was beyond helpful thank you so much! I just started making tiktoks of my own, and was just using the capcut app but this helps me so much!

This is great starter advice im not familiar with tiktok and i would love to get into. Hopefully this could also be a good way to get me to read more!😅

Thank you for SHOWING instead of just telling---very helpful!

Thank you! You just shed a light on one of the biggest mystery on tiktok😂

Such an amazing video! Thank you for sharing this! I’m new to posting on BookTok and this really helped ❤️ one thing that I do that might help you, or other people reading this comment is for the hashtags on the video caption, I save some hashtags in my notes so I can copy and paste them to the caption to save some time and then tweak some of them to make them appropriate for the video 😊

Thanks for the video. This is really helpful for a TikTok newbie like me. All I need now is the courage to post something!

Omg you made this look so easy

A fantastic video. I had no idea one can make such videos in such a short time. Blame me on age. Do you do nonfiction books? And if so, how can I get you make a review for me that I can use on my social media?

Hi Bethany. Good video. I've been taking notes. Two questions: You're talking about promoting other people's books. How about one's own? A couple of online TikTok guidance sites say you should only promote your own "thing" on about 20% of your posts. Do you agree, or is it different when you're directing the video to BookTok?
Second, you suggested keeping the video to 60 seconds, such as for sharing on Instagram. Some of these sites say keep it to 15 seconds, especially when one is new and not recognized yet. What do you think about that?

Do you stop the video between transitions or just pause it? If you stop it, how do you connect them?

Been wanting to start a booktube and a book-tok channel but I hardly have hard-copy books, book-tokers and book-tubers seem to only use hard-copies for their videos. Kinda makes me hesitant.

Thank you
I just started booktok and this will help me

How you do this if you gonna just gonna reccomend ebooks

Hey, that was a huge help. As an author of about 35 books, I'm finally moving into the personal marketing end of things. Thank you!

This is a great video! Thanks so much, from this Gen X author!!

Thank you this helped orient me!

I've got my video on TikTok and when I tried to get it on to Booktok it ended up next to the one I've already put on TikTok so I've got two the same on TikTok. Did I miss something? How do I get it on to Booktok?

This was amazing and very helpful. I love the background music that you used for the editing. What is it called and where can I find it?

Where would you get the review from?

Thank you for the instructions. So helpful!!! I am a librarian and would love to make Book Toks but had no idea how to start. Now I think I'm ready to give a try.

I’m a fanfiction writer who started writing my debut novel and I want to grow my reader audience to lead people to my debut novel when it’s out but my tiktoks hasn’t been engaging

Cannot find an app for booktok on my iPhone

Thank you so much for doing this vid. New indie author and I’ve been wanting to learn how to do content for my TikTok. This has been super helpful🥰 now following you on TT😊

Thank you very much. Love from Sri Lanka!

I just started a tiktok, so this is so helpful. Thank you!! 💕

This was helpful, thank you! Could you tell me how to add smaller pictures to a video as it goes on?

So to do book tok You just put in the hashtag booktok? thank you

Extremely helpful video, especially for a perfectionist like me who gets discouraged about having multiple takes. I'm just starting my TikTok so this was the BEST video for me to watch. Thank you so much for the advice and how-to's!

Thanks for sharing

This was great. I've never done TikTok and was wondering about how people edit for those transitions.

This is so helpful! Thank you

I'm just starting out on Tiktok and this video couldn't have come at a better time! I don't know if I'll be able to post content more than once a day but I'm hoping to work up to three times as I get more familiar with the process. I'm such an introvert that I'll probably freeze like a deer in the headlights but practice makes perfect, right!

Thank you for making this.

I would love more videos like this! So helpful—thank you so much. ☺️

Thank you so much!!! I love booktok, but feel so incompetent when it comes to making videos. Your video helps a lot. Question: How do you add the text answers people point to in the Intro to BookTok videos?

This was so stinking helpful. I just shared it with some of my other author friends who want to dive into tiktok. Thanks for simplifying it! <3

What is the software to download for editing?

Those transitions were GREAT. Nicely done! As someone who is JUST starting on TikTok (literally tonight), it's nice to see how relatively simple it is to make some cool content.

Can you explain how I would add a photo of a book I read from a Kindle!

Thank you.

Darn...why this lady takes forever to get to the point

Very informative, Is there any possibility of obtaining a transcript from you (a gorgeous woman)

Just joined tiktok and my publisher wants me to do a video about my book. Can I somehow adapt the 1- minute trailer I made?

Thank you! This was so helpful!

Just started my booktok - I'm an indie author and was totally clueless so this video has been absolute gold for me. Thank you!!

Thank you x

This is seriously such a great and helpful video! It was suggested to me on Google and I am surprised to see there aren't more comments and likes. You explained things so well and I appreciate you walking through the TikTok filming and editing process (which I've done, but I'm new, so it's helpful for me to see others do it). Thank you!