Create a children's colouring book using Canva

1. Introduction & Overview: In this course, I'll show you how to create a children's coloring book like this using a free app called Canva. I'll show you how to create the interior, the cover, and also how to get it published on Amazon, Katie p, So you can sell it either to the public or send them as unique gifts to your friends, family, and loved ones. So grab a cup of coffee, get comfortable, and let's get started. Alright, before we dive in, let me show you what we're going to cover in this course. The first thing we're gonna do is I'll give you a tour, a guided tour of the book that you're going to create so you know what you're in for. And by the way, it's a published book on Amazon, Katie p. So if you want to go and get it, you can't. We'll go over what is Canva for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, and also why I'm recommending that you use it because I think that that's a good question. Also, what is Amazon kVp or Kindle Direct Publishing? If you're unfamiliar with it. Then we'll actually get into the meat and potatoes of creating and publishing your book will do it in four steps. The first step will be number one to pick a trim size. That's basically how large physically do you want your book to be? Step two, we'll go over designing your books, interior, or in other words, a manuscript. Step three, we'll go over designing your book cover. And then step for the uploading slash publishing process to Amazon kVp. And just so you know, I use the word in this context, uploading and publishing interchangeably synonymously. So it's pretty much the same thing when it comes to Amazon, Katie p. So step for uploading or publishing to the Amazon kVp platform. Then we'll have conclusion and next steps. Next steps basically is going to be other books you might want to create. This is by no means my first course. There are other types of book that you want to create. Then I may have a course out there that I will point you towards. One thing that I will say, this course is not about, it's not about publishing a best seller. I know there are a lot of courses out there on how to make money on Amazon, kVp, and how to publish a bestseller. And those two are kind of, you need one to get the other. But at least from my point of view when you're starting off on your authoring journey, it's best to get familiar with how to publish the book and how that process works before you start fussing and worrying and stressing about how to publish bestseller. It'd be like, for example, if you're just starting to play tennis because I don't tennis coaching. And you say, oh, but how do I become the best tennis player in the world? You don't even know how to hold your racket. Does that make sense? So this course is not going to be about publishing a bestseller. It's about publishing a basic children's coloring book. I did it actually as a unique gift for a friend. I made a bit of a story, you'll see when I go into the book. But I made up a basic story about her, put some basic outlines in there for coloring purposes. And then I sent it to her as a unique and gift. And I think that's a really, really cool place to start. You could create a story, story about, let's say, your child or the children of one of your friends, or the story of how you met your partner and fell in love. And you could create a cool book from that. If you want to create an Best Seller. There's a lot of other, particularly research that you have to do before even thinking about creating the book. Because let's face it, if you create a book that no one wants, no one's going to buy it, and therefore you're never going to create a best seller. So just so we're clear, this course is not about creating an Amazon Best Seller. You may sell a few copies. That's a bonus. But it's about getting that first or second book published, getting you comfortable with that process. And then shore, if you want to go for bestseller or you want to iterate and make your books better and better and better, more power to you. I certainly encourage you to do that. 2. The book you'll be creating: As promised, let me give you a brief tour of this book. And just before we dive into that, let me show you the listing on Amazon. So here it is. On my kVp, what they call the bookshelf. You'll see another version over here. This is unpublished. I think this was an early draft version or something like that, but here's the actual listing. You can see that it's live. And if I click on the View on Amazon, then you can see that this is the amazon.com. I actually purchased this. You can see, I think I send it wants to my friend who I wrote this book about and then wants to myself, as you can see here. But It's available in the US, in the UK, in Australia. So that's the actual listing. It's a genuine book. I've actually published this book. And to give you an idea. So first off, when we talk about trim size, this is an 8.5 by 8.5 inch paperback book. Now, is there a reason that it's 8.5 by 8.5 inch? Not really. I like the square format for a children's coloring book. In one of the following videos, I'll show you the different options you have for trim sizes. You don't have infinite options, but you certainly have a lot. And you couldn't make it bigger if you want. A lot of people use 8.5 by 11 inch, particularly if they're doing activity books and things like that. But it's only 24 to 30 pages long. I wanted to make it very quickly and very simply just so I could get it done. And then on the inside, It's basically what you'll see is, and you don't have to do it like this. This is an opening quote from Disney. Probably shouldn't show that because Disney might not like it. But for me, what I wanted to do was create text on one side and a colorable image, if that's a word of colorable in image on the other side. And yes, this had been has been colored in one, not by me, but by my nephew who I gave gave the book to to test drive whether he could color it in and guess what It worked. He was using crayons. He actually drew the eyes in. A little bit creepy. But as you see, the spread or the two-page spread is a left page and right page. You can see on one side it's a colorable in image and on the other side, because this was a book for young pageant queens and my friend is a pageant queen. I was putting in sort of motivating motivational quotes that would be suitable for that audience. If you're wondering why me as a guy is writing, think like a queen. And you can see here it repeats. So equina is not afraid to fail on one side using a font that children can color in. Then on the other side, a suitable image. And it goes on and on and on. As I said, it's about 2424 pages long. And then on the last page I actually forgot about this, but I put a more complicated sort of Mendelian pattern as a challenge. And obviously my nephew had to do that because I taught them all it's difficult. You can't do that. And so he proceeded to do it, actually did a good job with it with crayons. So this is, this is a book that I'm going to show you how to create. Can you do your own version of it? Absolutely. I certainly don't want you to copy this because you could get in trouble from Amazon for doing that. But let's say at least aim for an 8.5 or 8.5 by 8.5 inch paperback book. What if you start playing around with the formatting size? You could run into trouble if you are first-time publisher, a first-time author, because that's where most people, when they submit their book for approval to Amazon, if they get knocked back. The biggest reason is because some formatting issue, particularly with images. So I encourage you for this first time through just to follow me through 8.5 by 8.5 inch, you can change that. I can encourage you to change your text. You can make it all text. You can make it or images and no texts, some combination of that. And you could certainly make it more pages and 24. That's fine. But this is a book that we're going to create. It's an actual published book on Amazon, KT P, As you can see. And the approval process from it took me probably about half an hour to create this book. It really is that simple. And then once I submitted it, it took about 24 hours to get approval. I think I said I think it was less. I submitted it before I went to bed. And then probably halfway through it about lunchtime the next day, I got the notice that it was approved. So this is a book that we're going to create right now. 3. What is Canva and why use it?: Okay, what is Canva and why should you use it? Now to put it basically, Canva and I'll share my screen with you. Canva is a graphic, graphic design app and it's free to use. And here is my screen or my interface. There's obviously a lot of stuff here because I use Canvas a lot. If your first-time or to this, then you'll see nothing. And by the way, you need to go sign up for an account. So I'll put the link here below, but it's canva.com, CAN va.com go and sign up for a free account. You can use their website version. This is the downloadable app version and that's for free as well. I like having the app version Just because I can work offline. It's a bit more reliable. But this is a Canvas screen and it's basically a, it started life as a graphics design app. And the reason I'm suggesting you use it is because it's free. And B, it's extremely powerful. And C, it's very easy to use. So when you put that, had the combination of three, powerful and simple to use and easy to use. That really, I think, makes it something that you should at the very least check out, not just for your book, but if you're doing social for your social media design, if you need graphics for your website, then you really should check it out. And you go, Oh, I don't have any graphic design experience, agent, I couldn't have used this. I have very little graphic design experience myself. But where can be really sets itself apart is if, for example, you go create a design. And let's say you wanted to do an Instagram post which he had saying 1080 by 1080 P x. That's shortfall pixels. So an Instagram post that to square. And then you've got Adrian, I wouldn't know where to start. Well, the good news is that everything, every sort of design that you can create in Canada pretty much has hundreds, if not more, free templates you can use. Now what I will say is, so here are the templates on the left. If you see a little crown, that's for pro users only and that's you pay, I think it's about $20 or something like that. Us per month. You get access to more templates, to more fonts, to more images. But unlike a lot of other apps, the free version is more than enough for you to get started with. It's not like the pro version is great. In the free version is so bad you need the pro version. So I'll say that off the bed, but that's just what these little crowns means. So I am a pro user. But let's say you're scrolling down here and you wanted to create a post for your Instagram. And let's say we're looking for quote posts. Everyone loves quite posts, right? So you type in here, quote, and guess what? It gives you all these templates. Here's a simple one. In fact, so many people use Canva. You might scroll through this and go hang on. I've seen that somewhere before. It's probably because it's been created on Canvas. So I'll just click this. And then Bob's your uncle. That's good to go. All I'll do is double-click on here and put what that is. I could never start a day without coffee. And then okay, it's now on two lines, the font a bit too big, so you go up here and you just shrink that font a little bit. You might say, I don't like that font. So you can then pick whatever font you want. Let's go with an all caps one and shrink it down a little bit. And then let's make sure it's in the center of the box and then done. And then you go, Adrian, what else can I change? I can change within reason the color, some images. You can't change your color. This one I can't, but you can drag, but you'll see his elements. This is a big one and this is where you can drag all sorts of other images in. So if I type in, for example, coffee, and let's go graphics because I don't want photos or videos. Look, here is a coffee and image of a coffee cup. It's for free. I'll click on that. It's too big. You say, well, let's shrink it. Let's drag it into the middle. Okay? This process is something you can repeat whether you want a Facebook page cover, a YouTube cover, and podcasts, cover image, whatever you want. There are so many different possibilities. And the thing that frankly is a bit overwhelming with Canva as it keeps adding more and more options. So it's not to the point where you can also create video. You can create websites, and as you can see here, you can even create print products. I mean, I wouldn't use it for this, but you can see here that it's got a resume. So if I click on Resume and let's just see what happens. So it starts out with a blank and then I will have resume templates on the left. And I mean, honestly you go what, Adrian, this is not the resume I would use, but if you click on it once, It's not bad. And then when you go through all these templates that are available, chances are you'll be able to find one that's usable for you. You just go in and change it and then you can print it out. If it was a graphics that you really like, you could print it out on a t-shirt or a mug, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So I hope this shows you how powerful Canvas can be and how simple it is to use and add to that, that it's free. I mean, there is a pro version, as I said, but the free version is extremely powerful. That's what I started on. I do have the pro version for disclosure, but you don't need it for this course. So just because it's free, it's powerful and It's super simple. And I'd like to think intuitive to use. It's a no brainer, and especially when you can use it to design a book, then we're going to go with it. So that's the introduction to the Canvas app. Go to canva.com and sign up for your free account. If you don't have one, I will say if you've never used the Canvas app before, maybe before proceeding to the next video, sign-up for your account and download it and just have a play with it. And you'll quickly see how simple and easy it is to use. And you'll be pretty amazed, I think, but what, by what you can create very, very simply. So that's the Canvas app. 4. Why publish on Amazon KDP?: What is Amazon? K, d p. Well, Katie P stands for Kindle Direct Publishing. And I think it's because back in the day, Katie p. Was primarily used to publish Kindle books or ebooks. But now it can publish Kindle books, e-books. It can publish paperback books, such as the coloring book that we're about to create. It can also create hardcover books. The insides can be black and white, can be color. It can pretty much create any book that you want to make, at least as a beginning author. So why use kVp? Well, you'll be relieved to know that it's free. And the other thing is, it's backed by Amazon. So the good news is if you publish on kVp, your book is going to be available on Amazon. And Amazon ships to pretty much everywhere in the world. I know because I've had to ship my books to Australia, to the UK, to the US, to South Africa, to Japan. Even one of my clients is a is in the Navy and I had to send it to a navy postbox or something like that. So Amazon literally ships it everywhere and they're shipping rates by enlarge gonna be the cheapest in the world by far. Because that's what Amazon does and also the printing, the cost of printing your book is probably going to be the cheapest, again by far. And I say this because my best friend, he was looking to publish a book on real estate. And I just asked them, Well, what was the quote that you got given? And he looked it up and I said, well, let's check out how much it would cost to publish the same book on Amazon. And it was a third of the price, not half, not thirty-three percent less. It was 1 third, I think, of the price to publish the book. So that little conversation with them, I like to say, you probably owes me a coffee or two from that one thing, That's Amazon kVp, that's why to publish on it. I will show you the link. And by the way, this is a good time to say if you don't have a KT P account, it's free but do sign up for one. Go to war, go to Katie p.amazon.com or just look up kVp, Amazon, kVp on Google. The count is three. And the good news is, if you have an Amazon account, if you've been using Amazon to buy stuff, which let's face it over the pandemic who hasn't said anything that has been keeping us a lot of, a lot of us sane. But you can use the same contact details to sign up for your Amazon account. So that's easy. The one thing that you will want to do, especially if you're on ten or getting paid, your tax information and banking information handy because it will ask you to put that in and do a brief texts questionnaire. But this is the kVp, what they call the bookshelf. I showed this in a previous video, but please don't go. Oh my God, why do you have so many? It's partly because I published a lot of books and partly because the cause of that I publish on book publishing, I'd like to show you that I've actually published the actual book is not theoretical. It's very, very practical. So yes, these are all the books I published. Some are very in-depth, let's say, proper books. And some are books that I've created, either just for friends, such as this one I created as a birthday present for my friend Chloe over in Ireland. And these unruly, proper books in the sense that I'm not looking, I'm not expecting anyone would buy it except to me. So I bought a copy, send it to her. That's one copy. And I bought another copy, send it to myself so I could show you that I have two copies and this book probably will only sell two copies ever, but this is what the bookshelf or look like. You will see your title spring up here. If you've published before or want to get this book published, but go and sign up for your Amazon k d P account. Now, I don't want you to wait to the end of the course and then go to it and realize you haven't done it yet and they go, Oh, it's too hard. And then never publish your work. I hope you forgot your Canva account. Squared away. Ready to go? Now go get your kVp account, good and ready to go. Now we're gonna get into the meat and potatoes of how to create your children's coloring book. 5. Step 1: Pick trim size: Your first job is to pick your trim size, as in, how big do you want your actual book to be? Now, if you're happy to just take my leave and go with an 8.5 by 8.5 inch square paperback book. Then you can skip this video if you want to. And I do suggest that you have a look at this. Now, this is a kVp help article. The link is something indecipherable above and I really wish I'd make filling simpler. I'll put it below. But if you need to find this, just look up, go to Google and type in k, d, p trim sizes. You will find this article. Then we scroll down, scroll down, scroll down. And what we're looking at is a trim size specifications, width by height, with minimum and maximum page count. Make sure you're not looking at this one which is only applicable to the Japanese store. I don't know why it's different. I guess if you're printing on the Japanese publishing on the Japanese stores and have a look at it. But let's, for the vast majority of us, we're going to start with Katie p or this listing here. And as I said, so paperback is what we're doing. We're doing 8.5 by 8.5 inch here. If you follow my mouse, we are using black and black ink and white paper for the interior. The interior is actually not color. The color that you saw before is because my nephew colored it in. But the main thing is here, if you have a look, so black and white paper, black ink and cream paper, your minimum page count is 24. Is 24. If you ever get around to publishing a book that has color in it, and you choose a standard color ink, which is a bit cheaper than the premium color ink. You then have a minimum page count of 72. Which to me is not ideal for children's coloring book unless you want to or are willing to publish children's coloring book that has a minimum of 72 pages. That's not what I wanted to do and not what, what we're gonna be doing in this course. So just be aware of that. And this is why I wanted to show you this so you know exactly what you're aiming at before we get started. If you use a premium color ink on white paper, and I've used this to publish children's books in the past. Then again, your minimum becomes 24. So have a look at this table and focus on what which one, which option you want to go for. You can see down here the hardcover, which is probably not really appropriate for coloring book. But again, the minimum page count is all 75. That by the way, means if you publish 20 pages, 55 pages of your book are gonna be published as blank paper. That's basically what it means. So we'll be doing 8.5 by 8.5 inch black ink and white paper. I guess I could say that it's premium color ink and white paper, but the interior is black and white. You could do whitepaper, cream paper. If you want another option, then have a look here. As I've said, some people for, especially for children's activity books, because you want the book to be a bit larger because children aren't the best with enhanced skills yet. So having a bit of a larger book allows them, allows you to put larger images in, which makes it a bit simpler for at least young children to color. In. A lot of people do use a 8.5 by 11 inch. Again, black ink and white paper or blank ink and clean paper. And your minimum page counts are there. So to get to this article, google kVp trim sizes, and hopefully this is the first one that comes up. I will put the link below, but as you can see up here at some indecipherable garbage, I really wish it was simpler to get to, but there's no easy way of getting to it. So pick your trim size. As I said, if you're happy to just go with my recommendation as a start with 8.5 by 8.5 inch paper back. Then, let's just go with it. If you want to pick another one just to make sure it fits into one of these categories here. And now let's actually get started. 6. Step 2: Create your book interior: Okay, let's go into step two, how to create your books interior. So I'll bring up Canvas here. Now this is the actual interior to the book that I've been showing you, the coloring book. This will look somewhat familiar if you've watched my video where I gave you a guided tour of the book. So this is what we're going to have by the end of it, at least something that looks vaguely like this. If I click down here, you can see it's got that minimum count of 24. So that's perfect. And as I mentioned before, the way I've done this and you don't have to do this. But I've done for two-page spread, one image, and then one piece of text or motivational quotes. One image, one piece of text. This one here is an odd page out. That's the first page, which by the way, all the odd pages in a book, because of the way books are printed, the first page is always right facing or toys at a page on the right. And all your even pages are going to be on the left. So this is a first spread here. Second spread here. And I think what I've also done, yes, I've alternated whether the text is on the left or on the right. The first spread, the text was on the right. What text was on the right here? Then on the second spread, the textures on the left. Again, you don't have to do that, but you can see here images, texts, this is what we're going to create. So you go Great, Adrian, How do I do this? Very simply, you're going to go to create a design. And I hope you've picked your trim size. Let's go to custom size here. And you're going to put in, make sure please, you pick inches, not Px, which is pixels. That would be very tiny and you can't have half a pixel anyway. So 8.5 by 8.5 inch, just double-check IN for inch. Create new design. And you get to here. Now, what I would recommend that you do if you're going to create, let's say 24 pages. Because again, that's a minimum number that we need for publishing is just to start adding pages until we've got 24, so that we know how many we're going to, how many we're going to have to fill before we can publish the books at page 181920 twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four. Now you know that the first page up here is going to be your title page. So what I recommend putting here is the book title, something that's appropriate here. That's the cover. Beg your pardon. So over here, this is the sorry, this is the initial page. I've put a quote. Alright, so we'll do that. So forget the title at the moment. We're going to put inspirational quote on the very first page of that book. So I will just copy paste that. But if you want to know how to drag in texts, you go agent that might be useful because I can copy paste it. So go with here, Kotex and honestly just click any one of these. It doesn't really matter because now you can change that. So you could put in here a quote, and I'll put in motor quote goes here. What I will say is as you're doing this, please make sure that you drag it in from the sides. Don't let the text go all the way to the edges. Now, there is, let me center this and you can see that when it's in the center Canvas snaps and locks for you. So I'm going to suggest that you at least drag it into where you see these sort of that purple square drop up, a pop-up. Let's not go outside there. And it's really important you do that because for two reasons. One is if your, if your text or your image goes too close to the side, particularly towards the spine, it's impossible for anyone to get in there to actually color it and it sort of becomes obscured. If you imagine that you have a book, there's not so much of an issue on a thinner book, but if the image or the texts sort of went into here, it's a lot harder to color it in. So that's one reason to just drag drag the box in from the sides, at least until that box shows up if you want to drag it and even more, then that's even better. The other reason is if you put your text or your image too close to the sides, too close to the margins, then your book will actually be rejected because Amazon can only print up to a certain distance from the, basically the edges of the page. It doesn't want to chop your text off. So I need you to drag your images and your text in from the side. So at least two there. In my experience, it look even better if you drag it in a little bit more, but you can do whatever you want. Now, if we are going to, this is a motivational quote here. If you did want to put the title page here, you absolutely could. If you wanted to instead port and or some coloring book. And I'm not American, so I spell color that way. And then you could put in, I'll just hit that and then I will click Duplicate up there. And by Adrian Quan, now if you wanted to make that color in a bowl, you need to pick a certain font that actually allow. People to color it in. And in this one here, let me just find the name of the font that I used. So the number of fonts that I use is this one, bang-bang outline. So you go to here, you go up to here which shows shows the font. And let's see if we can find bang, bang outline. There it is. Now this one is a pro only font. So you'd have to be a pro user to use it. Let me see if I can find another outline font that you could use it for free. So let's have a look here. So there are some here, this one here, Mary Kate outline, that would work, but actually it looks really cool. So Mary Kate outline is for free. Your version of Canva should have the exact same fonts. By the way, this one here, blueberry outline, that looks pretty cool as well. So you'll find a font. So what you wanna do now is find a font. And then if you're going to at least use words in your book, find a font and then try to use the same font throughout the book. You don't want to be changing font every page I find that a bit distracting. But I've gone with Bang, Bang outline. So I will keep it to bang, bang outline. Let me go back up here. I will go to recent searches, bang-bang outline. So I'll leave it like that. So whether you want to make your first page and let me just remind you, the first page is you open the book and the very first page is going to appear by itself on the right. So this first page here put whatever you want to be on that first page if you want it to be an image, go for it. But generally, obviously books have a title on the first page in that book, I put a quote. So let me skip across to the last page now, because your last page is going to change this over, is going to appear on the left side. Now, it's technically not the last page. You'll see that there are a few other pages here. And whenever you print a book, other pages are added to the end, either to make it so that it can be printed properly. That's printing because it has to be in multiples of four. Or because as in this case, Amazon wants to publish a little thing on the back page itself. So technically it's not the very I mean, this is a back cover. We're not talking about this page here, but we're talking about the last page of your book, which if it's an even numbered page 24 is going to end up on the left. So what I recommend is that you go all the way to the all the way to the end and then put, decide what you want to have on that very last page, you can see that I put a Mandela pattern. And if you wanted to, you could certainly go somewhere, find them Mandela pattern and then drag it into the upload here. So going into, I should let see if I can do that for you. So rather than talking about it, if I go to Google and type in Mandela, and we'll go to images and let us go to large. Now these are large Mandel of patents. The reason I tend not to recommend that you, The reason I caution you when doing this is please make sure you have the copyright. If you get an image from Google, even if it doesn't seem to be copyrighted, but you drag it into your book and you publish on an Amazon, you could get into trouble, as in your Amazon account, could be suspended or canceled. That's why I tend to use the images that already within Canva. Just because you're free to use those ones. That's why they're in Canberra in the first place. But let's say if you wanted to drag one in, this one, this one probably here is appropriate. So I will save this to my desktop. And again, I'm not going to recommend that you actually do this. I'm just doing this so that if you have images that you want to upload to Canvas to show you that it can be done, how you do it, save it to your desktop, then go back into Canva. In fact, go back into Canva. You can actually drag it into here. But just the way I'm screen recording, I can show you that at the moment. So you could drag and drop it into here, it will automatically upload. But if you hit Upload Media and then you go and find your image, it will upload there. You can see, just give it time until that blue bar is finished. Then if I click it, it brings it in here. Now again, I'm not actually going to use this. And I don't recommend you do this unless you have certain that you have the copyright for this image. This one certainly, it had someone's name on it and I wouldn't use it as well because it has some lines and it's not completely transparent on the back. If you have a look, it looks like it's got some pencil lines here. So it's not ideal for children's coloring books, but if you have some images of your own that you want to use, let's say you're a graphic designer and you create Mandel or patterns or illustrations and you want to import it. That's how you can do it. You can absolutely use your own images there. Just be wary of copyright. So let me shrink back out of this. And so what you can put on the last page, let me show you the simple way to do it. I am pretty certain that Canva will have some Mandel or patterns here. So what Mandela? I just liked the idea of putting a challenging, challenging piece at the back will look for black and white one, because remember, we're going to print in black and white. Well, that one's really, really difficult. So we'll just go with this one. And remember, because it's in Canva, we can automatically uses, we don't have to worry about copyright. I will again drag it until we get that purple square on the outside, wherever it is. Sometimes it's a bit finicky and doesn't want to show. There it is. And there it is. It's a bit hard to see just because it's behind the actual mantle, which is the square root. But there it is. So that's the very last page and that can be a challenging one for the for your child or whoever it is to finish on. So now what we have is the first page done, title page or quote. And now we're going to operate in spreads. Spreads or left facing page and a right facing page. And this is the only part. That's a bit tricky. And Canva is you don't automatically see which page is going to be on the left, on the right, because Canvas doesn't know this is gonna be a book. This could be for anything. So page to remember, even pages up on the left. All the pages are on the right. That's what I need you to remember. And as soon as after he published a few books, you'll remember that one rule. So even pages on the left, odd pages on the right. So let's go back into Canvas here, page two. And all you need to do now is start either putting in text. Remember I was using the bing, bing font, but just whatever you want. So again, it doesn't matter what you click on here because you can change the font afterwards. So if you wanted to do an inspirational quote, you could, or you wanted to tell a story. Let's say you could put Once Upon a Time dot, dot, dot, and then you go and choose while chose bing, bing, bang, bang out was font. That's a little small. Let's make that bigger, so make it easier for the children to color it in. Again. Just make sure that that's not going outside of that square. And let's drag that into the center right there you can see that cross has formed. I don't want it to get anywhere near the margins. I'm actually going to make it even a bit smaller. So that's fine. Okay, So the box has gone all the way up to the margins, but the text you can see as well within the margins. So if you want to do text, that's how you do it. If you wanted to do images, all you do is go into elements and search for particular image. So let's say castle. Now, you'll see there my reason I've actually put outline now the reason I put outline in it is because if I just put search term, and by the way, let's go to graphics. We don't want like photos like this because we can't cover those in. But if we go to graphics, we might end up with a whole bunch of not any color stuff. Nothing wrong with colored stuff if you want to use it. But the problem is it's probably not that usable for coloring in book because this is already colored in. So what I found is if you put whatever you want to so castle and then outline. It ends up cameras pretty good this way. It ends up showing you images that are actually outlines. So if I now remember the ones with crowns or pro, only, so let's find a free one. That took me actually a really long time to find one that was free. That's unusual in Canva for my experience. But let's say you wanted a particular image and you couldn't find it for free, then obviously you either can get the pro version, I think I can get a free trial and use it to make your book or just find another image. I also believe you can buy individually. Mrsa isn't imitate you really want then you can just buy the individual image. But this one here finally is free. And you can see there, it actually turns out wide here. I was going to be afraid that it wouldn't it would show up as white here and you can see it. But there it is. You can click it and resize it. Remember to not make it too big. So there's our square. So we'll leave it smaller than that square will center it. I mean, you can make it smaller if you want to. If you wanted to change the color, you could change the outline. I don't know. Let's say blue. Just bear in mind then if you want to use color, then you'll have to pick color printing. So I'll leave it at black to make it simple. Now you could just do one. That's how you do images basically. And you could just leave it at that if you want. But there's no reason that you only have to have one image per page. So thinking of a typical children's book, you can see I've searched for unicorns, a unicorn outline. Let's see if I can find one for free more easily. This time, I will scroll down. And you know what, I apologize for this. I've never had to use his before because I never had a big issue with afraid, but there's actually a filter. You go up here. Let's try this filter, filter and let's hit free. That, that's a bright idea Adrian will hit apply. And let's just go unicorn outline. And let's see what happens. So we've got this unicorn cupcake. Scroll down, scroll down. Again, we're looking for a black and white ones so that people can color it in. And there's one here. Now, I'm not terribly impressed at the moment by my options with unicorns. So maybe I won't look up. Unicorns aren't actually that one there is better. So I'll click that and again, you can use that on the same page. What I'm saying here, what I'm telling you is that you don't need to have only one image per page. You can put in as many as you want. Let's see if I can have more luck with sun. So again, the filter is on here, that's a bit better. So there's lots of, Finally, there's a lot of sun images here. If I click on this one or that color. So I probably won't use that one. It's not really an outline, so let's get rid of that one. Let us, you can use that one. Now if you wanted to use that one, you can see that it's gray use it's not showing up great. So you could change it to, change it to black up here. But that's okay. That's not great. And look, the main thing here is that this is how you do images. So images, or you go to your elements. And remember, look at the, look at graphics, then look at photos because it's unlikely that you're going to want to use, for example, a photo like this. And you're certainly not going to want videos or audio. So go and graphics. Use that, which I really should have known about. I apologize for that, but use your free. Having said that, the probe unicorn images were a lot cooler, so maybe you do want to try pro, and remember you can try it free for 30 days, um, but free and you have other filters here. I could have used the Blackfoot of I wanted the outline. So if I do that, then we can see here, Let's try another one. Let's try rainbow. So with all those filters on, let's see what happens. Black filter has really not worked very well. So I'll just put outline again and play around with this drag, just make sure nothing is outside of this purple box. Yes. So there That's okay. That's inside. So this is how you do images. This one looks like gray, not black. Let me just make sure that's black anyway. This is how you do the text. This is how you do images and just go on and on and on until you hit page 24, which is Atlassian, where we've put the Mandela pattern. Now, let me cheat and use that phrase. Here's one we prepared earlier. And by the time that you've finished playing with it, as I said, this is what you'll end up with. So this is the finished product. As I said, I alternated image pages with text pages you are free to use, or images you want if you don't want to use texts. But I thought it helped to tell a nice tail. So by the end of it, again, make sure that all your text is within the boxes. It hasn't gone too close to the edges. You can actually see I've drawn some margins in for myself using my knowledge of kVp to really make sure that I didn't put the images too close to the side. So you can do that too by dragging it from the top. I won't do that now because it will override this one or change this one here. But if you really want to make it obvious, drag in some margins for yourself. So you know, you never go over those margins. So you never have images or texts too close to the edges or too buried in the spine. And then just keep going, keep going until you've got your interior created. And it looks something like this. So this video is a bit longer than I wanted it to be because I thought it'd be easier to find free images and outline images. So I do apologize for that, but on the other hand, I'm going to leave it in because it shows you what to do if things go wrong and you can't find the image that you want, remember that you can dragging your own images. So if you have a source of images and remember the handle, their copyright, make sure you are allowed to use them commercially, not free for you because you probably going to sell it on Amazon Katie pizza, it needs to be a commercial license. If you have a source of images somewhere else, I shown you how to upload them and you can drag them into Canva. And if you really are struggling to find enough free images, really unusual without unicorn and the castle that there were so few free images to use. But if that happens to you, type something else in or just get the trial of the pro version for 30 days. That'll be more than enough time for you to make ten of these books and then you can cancel your trial if you want to keep the Canva pro version because it is very useful and that's what I use. So that's how you create the interior of the book. Now, last thing before we leave this video, export this. So got to the top right. We're gonna go download. And we want this PDF print because that's what Amazon kVp will want. Uncheck this, it shouldn't be checked. All pages color space. That doesn't matter because there shouldn't be any color because we're doing black and white. And then just hit download. And this will then go away. It will think for a bit and then pick a place to save this PDF file to where obviously you can remember where you've put it. So for me, I'll just put it on my desktop. And it's called children's coloring book dot pdf or hit Save. And now my interiors done and it's exported, ready for uploading to ADP. But we'll be getting into the cover next. 7. Step 3: Create your book cover: In this video, we're going over how to create your lovely book cover. Cover for a physical book obviously has a front cover and back cover. Just note the barcode that or Amazon and pretty much every book that's ever printed will have just, this will come back up in a sec. So that's the barcode. There's a spine. But when we are only printing a book that's 24 pages, fic, yours might be a bit thicker, but if it's only, let's say it's a minimum number, it's about 50 or 60. But if the book is 24 pages, it's too thin to be able to print any spine text. So we're not going to be worrying about anything on the spine. If you print it. I mean, there's a book here that a lot thicker. This book has spine texts, but we're not gonna do that because our book, our book is too thin to have spine texts. So here's what we do. And let me show you the screen. That would be a good idea. Adrian. A link you're going to need to know. And I'm going to get you to go to now Katie p.amazon.com. I'll put it below KT P.amazon.com forward slash cover hyphen calculator. Go to there. This will open up. And what are we doing? We're doing a paperback interior type, black and white paper type. I put in white for coloring book. Page ten direction will be left to right. Measurement units. Remember we're doing inches, interior trim size 8.5 by 8.5 inch. If you did another option, pick that option, then page count. This is why we do the cover after doing the interior, because we need to know how many pages are in our book. And we know that there's 24. Now, I can hit calculate dimensions and I will do that. This is all cool, but I don't really even look at this. It's cool to know, but I'm just going to hit Download Template. And it will go away and download the zip file. Now, if I go and open this zip file, what you will see here is that there is a PDF. And remember I showed you how to upload files into Canva. We're going to want to upload this PDF into Canva. So now we're gonna go back into Canvas. We're going to import that file now, please make sure you do it this way. Otherwise you could get lost here. So we're gonna go up to the top and create a design. We're not going to worry about custom size at a photo. We're going to import file and then go to that folder that you just unzipped. Find the PDF file, not the PNG, the PDF and double-click that or click and then hit Open. Now Cambria is gonna go away and import this. I will say that Canada occasionally has problems importing this PDF for some reason. If it screws up, just try it again. And if it screws up again, just reload camera and it should work. It's always worked for me, but maybe half the time it doesn't work the first time for some reason, I'm not sure why. But you can see here now, it's the first design up on my page now. And it's this really long-winded name. Let's call it something a bit more appropriate. So coloring book. And the reason we've done it this way, it's already worked out the dimensions for me. So now if I click this, this is what we get two and this is why I didn't worry. Remember when we did the cover calculator and it gave us all those dimensions. I don't need to know that because this graphically is going to show me how to do it. Now, you certainly can read all this in your own time. I'm not going to go through it. The main thing here, I'm actually going to click these ones and delete it. I'm going to delete all this. The main thing here to remember is that the front cover is on the right and the back cover is on the left. So actually it says here back cover, front cover. Now, I don't want to leave these things here because guess what? We leave these things here. It's going to print on your actual book. And I know which ones are from which ones are bad because I've done this enough times. So I'm deleting all of that. We will eventually want to get rid of or cover the pink area, because we don't want to print a pink on the border of our book. But it's similar to when I told you to make sure that all your images and texts where within the margins that purple box that popped up. This is the same thing. Make sure please make sure otherwise your book may not be approved. And then you have to do this again, that everything that you put on the front cover or the back cover is within the white. It doesn't go near the pink. Well, it can go near the pink, but just to be on the safe side, don't try and drag something all the way up to the pink. Because what's going to happen is Amazon's, as you're going to come along when you print, when they print your book, it's going to chop off along the sort of this grayish line here. So you certainly don't want something in the pink that you really need. And it's a bit of, a bit of a margin for error, which is why you have this sort of pink area. Not to put anything that's vital in. And by the way, remember when I said the barcode, this is where the barcode is going to go. So I will just get rid of that text for now, but I'm going to leave that yellow rectangle there just to remind me not to put anything important there because guess what? When the barcode is printed, it's going to cover that up. Let's create a cover, a simple one. And obviously you would put more time into this. But you put your heading or your type title, sorry, an awesome children's coloring book. Again, my Australian, my Australian spelling. I want this font to be a bit big and you know what? Let's use the same font we use on the inside of the book. Just why not? So bang-bang outline, That's great. I don't want it to be grown, want it to be black. So just keep an eye on these things. All sorts of little things want to trip you up. So 64, that is too big. I think there's no hard and fast rule here. I'm just using my eyes. I will say it looks like there's too much distance between the line. So if you click on this and you go up to this little button here, spacing. I want that line spacing to be a bit smaller, something like that. Then awesome chill. So there's my title. I'm going to try middle at roughly on my front cover. And then let me just hit Duplicate. And I will put my name by Adrian Kwan and I'll make that just a bit smaller to differentiate it from the title. Drag it down. Match it up with the center of the tidal. That'll do maybe drag it up a bit. And then we want so we go to elements. And let's look if it was for a pageant queen, then obviously you can type in pageant graphics. And let's have a look. And we don't need an outline on this one. Book covers, I should have said our color, so don't worry about finding a black and white one that's someone's coloring in Cane color and no one's going to color in the cover of the book, I don't think anyway, but you'll cover will always be color. So I'll go to graphics and find a suitable one. This one here is not bad. This one also here will do. So. Again, you'd want to put more thought into this. Obviously, I'm just showing you how it's done because of how to do it as simple. And then you can lose yourself in adjusting and adjusting it and making it perfect. So that'll do for the front cover. Back cover, you can put whatever you want. You don't have to put anything. But let's say that we put this one here, which actually looks a little freaky. Put it here. We'll try and center this person on the back and we'll put some back covered text if you wanted to do that. Again, doesn't matter which one of these you click because you can always change the font, so don't worry about which one you click. Drag it down. We will send to that and go. This is an awesome coloring book. Obviously, something a bit more that makes a bit more sense in the new, pick a different font. I might just pick a basic one. I don't know. I like railway. That seems to work. So drag this out. So it's not all sort of like this. Give it a bit more space from it to avoid the white, the pink area. Let's try and center this alignment with that image so it looks good and like that. Alright, so our back cover would be this. Our front cover would be this. We're good to go. The only thing is we don't want to print a yellow rectangle on our back cover. And we certainly don't want to print pink and a line and a blue dot. So what we need to do is, and this is the only kind of cheap, not cheap. It's important for you to know. We'll go to elements. Let's get a pageant and just find a rectangle, this basic one here. Now, I want the background of my book to be white. So I'm going to go up here and I will pick white. Now. Drag the rectangle all the way, all the way to the top left. Drag it across all the way to the right. Make sure it's all the way to the right. Really important, otherwise it won't work all the way to the bottom, so we don't want to be able to see any of that pink behind you go, Adrian, That's great. I can't see my work anymore. I'll just get rid of that spine texts there. And you're right. So make sure you've selected your rectangle, your white rectangle, and position. Let's send them to listen and backwards. Backwards. There we are. I send it to the back. I think things start showing through again. So forward. There it is. Now we've lost a yellow rectangle, but we've done the design already so we know none of our bag covers current that yellow rectangle. And we know that we're not writing over the spine. We know that our images are way away from the margins, that pink area. So we know this is going to work. So that now is our cover image ready to go. That how you do it when it comes to exporting. Export it the same way you exported the interior. Appear, share, download, find that print, PDF, print, hit that color space. Technically probably because it's pretty much go CMYK, but because we're using basic images, don't worry about it, but we hit CMYK, untick crop marks and bleed and save download settings if you want download and exactly the same as before, Canva will go away, do its work when it's ready, it will prompt you to save it. So I'm going to save it to my desktop. Coloring book cupboard or PDF. Looks good to me. Save. And now we are done. So you've done the interior, you've exported it, you've done the cover, you've exported that. Now the only part left is to upload it and publish it to the KTB platform, which is what we'll get into next. 8. Step 4: Upload/publish your book to Amazon KDP: We're almost there. That was a hard part. Now the easy part uploading it to the Amazon kVp platform. So we go to remember, I got you. Please, to create your kVp account way back on one of the first videos so that you can go straight into this now and I'd have to fumble at this step. So you probably won't have anything here like I do, because unless you've published a book before, if you have, that's fine. All you need to do is go up here, click Create. Now I will say, I'm going to go through this pretty quickly. I've already said that we're not trying to create a bestselling book here. There's a lot of detail you could go into potentially with the uploading and publishing process if you wanted to, in order to, let's say, optimize it to get the maximum number of people to buy your book. We're not gonna do that. I'm going to pretend or assume that you're just printing this for your own benefit, or just to get published, or to maybe sell it, to get it for your own children or give it to a friend or something like that. So I will gloss through this pretty quickly. If you wanted to dig into more information about the various bits and pieces, you could certainly do that. I will say if you click on My Profile, I've got a course you'll complete guide to KTB publishing and that digs into this process, this exact process in a lot more detail. If you want that, that's available for you there. So let's go through this quickly with the assumption that first-time through, you want to make it as simple as possible. So we're going to go for paperback. Let me just get rid of this. And you'll see we have three tabs to get through. Paperback details, paperback content, paperback rights and pricing language, English, book title or whatever you want. So for me it was the little pageant queen that could, maybe that should be who could, but anyway, the little pageant queen that could, I did not have a subtitle. Anytime it says optional, That's exactly what it means. We don't have to put in anything because I'm trying to make this as quick and easy and painless as possible. I'm not going to put in anything that I don't need to series blow my book is not part of a series. Probably the first book publishing. Edition number nope. Author? Yeah. Okay. I'll put in my author name. Contributors. No, no. I don't have any illustrators or anything like that description. Now, this is one of the most important parts. If you want your book to be a bestseller, I've already said that's what we're going for. If you wanted to put a thought out description here, I certainly encourage you to do so. I'm just going to put here is a cute little story about an awesome little pageant queen that could. It's also a coloring coloring book. I would never encourage you to put a description like that, but you get the point. You could also just, so you can play around some basic formatting here, Bolding, italics underline. You can't put any links in your book listing. Just bear that in mind. Moving on. Publishing rights. I do. I own the copyright. That's because that's one of the big reasons to use Canva. Remember, I caution you against bringing in outside images. Make sure you have the copyright. Keywords. Super, super important. Again, if you want to hit bestseller rank, I don't want to with this book and they're optional. So I'm going to leave it. I will say, for example, if you're going, What is a keyword? Well, like I said, my best friend wanting to sell a real estate book. One of the keywords, real estate, I would encourage you to put in. So think of it as what search terms would someone put in that they would find your book. So doing a real estate book, Real Estate children's coloring book, you probably want to put children's coloring book in here. And you can choose up to seven searches. You can see, I'm leaving a blank categories now you do need to choose at least one. You can choose to. They do need to be relevant to your book, otherwise, Amazon doesn't like it. So if I go down to, I don't know, juvenile fiction and we will just go, oh, go activity books. That's fine. You could pick another one if you wanted to want, it's fine. Low content book. Let's see this out. This is not a journal or a notebook or a planner. Does this book contain low mood situate? No, it does not. To children's coloring book. One or three done. We're 1 third of the way through. Let's keep barreling through this. We needed ISBN, give me a free KTB ISBN. And there you go. By the way, to pay for ISBN. So this is a really neat feature. We've got a free ISP and does it, you don't need to remember this. Amazon will remember it for you. Publication date optional, which means it will default to today's date, the date that I'm publishing my book. Print options are important. Okay. So black and white interior, not to cover the interior with white paper. Okay. Trim size again, very important. So it's not six by nine inch. Select a different size. We need to find r 8.5 by 8.5 inch, which is the very last one. Always click that in half by 8.5. Bleed. We're going we're going with no bleed. Trust me on that one bleed is a complicated issue for other books for another day. The cover finish, what I will say, this is a glossy finish and you can see that it reflects the light. A matt cover doesn't, it's more, it's flat. It doesn't reflect light as much. If you are planning on having a lot of people taking photos with your book, maybe for marketing purposes. You know, there's gonna be lots of flash photography and this is the only thing I will say. It tends to bounce flash photography off and then you can actually see your book cover. That's the only thing different between matte and glossy. I do like glossy. It's shiny, it looks a bit better. You might prefer. I will glow, Glow. I will glow with glossier so well, but I also go with glossy. The next step is upload paperback manuscript. Now, ignore that it says pricing, assessing my fault because I actually did this for this course. And realize that I had forgotten to switch screen recording on. It was just showing my face. So what you do is hit Upload paperback manuscript. Find your manuscript. So for, here for us to tear children's coloring book by PDF, double-click that and we'll upload. It will take a bit of time, but not too long. It depends on your Internet speed, but hopefully your manuscript is not too big. 2024 pages. When we get down to book cover, don't use cover creator. We already have a cover, so upload a cover, you already have upload your cover file and you do the same thing. Double-click on your coloring book cover, that's what I called mine Colin book cover dot PDF. And then you'll see here it says uploaded successfully, uploaded successfully. It's processing your file. Then you get to go down. Don't check this box because we didn't put the image of a barcode on our back cover, we left a space for it. Remember that yellow rectangle, but we didn't put the actual image of a bar code this so do not check there. Then the exciting part, we hit Launch preview. Now, this could take a bit of time. It's not your internet speed, it's waiting for kVp to finish processing your interior and your cover. So this is where I'm going grab yourself a cup of coffee or a glass of red wine. Come back to this when it's done, you'll notice it because you'll see your cover in your book in all its glory. But when I published a bigger book, this place, at this phase, I had to wait ten or 15 minutes for, so it can take time. This one is actually done for us even better. So this is the first time you actually get to see what your book will look like published with the spreads rather than the individual Canvas pages. Which remember what I said? Kevin didn't know you were making a book, so I didn't know to put it like this. But Katie does. So by the way you go, Oh my God, Adrian, why they are the dotted lines. I didn't put that there. It's just the guides. It's just a guide to help you. So if you want to get rid of it and you can unclick that, you can see the barcode that Amazon's going to put there. So that's our cover. And let's have a look. Now, I will gloss through this, but you want to make sure that obviously there are no spelling errors or that nothing, once again, nothing has gone to close into those margins. So make sure it's far away from these dotted lines here. So leave the guides on, maybe, maybe turn them off, you won't know. And again, if you go to close into those margins when you submit, we're about to submit this book for approval. Kgb was enough, can print this book. You've put something too close to the margins and that's by far the biggest reason when I've helped people to get their book published and why, why Adrian is my book Getting rejected? This is by far the biggest reason because something has gone in the margins. And it only needs one thing to go into the margins, by the way, for your book to be rejected. This is what the book looks like. Go through this and make sure there's no spelling errors. If you've put in text, make sure none of your images or your texts has gone inside the margins, even has. Go back to Canva, fix it, re-exported, and then re-upload it and then get to this phase. A cool little feature here is a thumbnail view, which will show your book as spreads so you can look at it like this. This is the first time you get to look at your book like this. Because again, Canada couldn't show it to you like this. This is where I can see. I've got the example of the text is alternating right, left, right, left. That's okay. Images look good. Once you're happy with it, then all you need to do is go down here, hit Approve. And again, if something goes wrong, don't hit Approve, just exit, fix it in Canva, re-upload it and then go through that process again. But we're now on to, we have to scroll back down. That's all done. Now, kVp is able to tell us our printing cost. This is not how much it's going to sell for. This is just how much Amazon is going to charge us a copy of the book that's printed or purchased. And obviously we're going to charge more than that, so we're not actually getting charged, but this is how much Amazon is going to charge us for printing in the different markets. So this is America, UK, etc, etc, etc. Just maybe double-check that these details here are correct. Hit Save and Continue. Now we'll move on to our final page. This is basically the money page. Territories and going with all territories worldwide, worldwide rights. Because why not? Primary marketplace. Pick whichever one you want. Whichever one you pick goes up to the top. So I'll leave it as.com.com at the top. It gives you a minimum and maximum price. So let's just for argument's sake. And again, this depends on who you're going to sell the book too. If you just want to sell it to yourself and then send it to your friend, put in the minimum price of $3.58. What you'll see is an Amazon has this neat feature where it calculates based on $3.58 us a rough equivalency in the other currencies. But this is really the only thing that changes with his primary marketplace. If I put I'm in Australia by put.com delay you, the minimum price is $7.48. If I change it to $9.99, you'll see again, Amazon will populate this for me. And by the way, you can change these individually. So if I wanted it to be 999 in Australia, but for 99 in the US, I can do that because it's the second row, not the top row or the primary marketplace. That change I made to the US market doesn't filter through down here. So for 99 for example, let's make it in pounds five, ninety-nine. And then you could make it, for example, this is just an example, €699. And I will copy paste. You get the idea. So that's surprising. Royalty. So we get, you will get 60% of the list price. So let's call this $10. I would get $6 out of that. And the printing price was basically $4.50. So Amazon did ducts are printing price from royalty. Well, right now 60%. And then we're left over with $1.50. And you can see the different margins here. Now, again, if you're just printing this for yourself, the minimum pricing, because you don't want to try it yourself more than you have to. If you're intending on the public being able to buy this book. And I should say when he published his book, the public will be able to buy it. They may not find it, but they can buy it. So just give a little bit of thought to this. But don't worry too much about it. 60%, 40 percent royalty on not gonna go into that. If you want to find out more about that, go to my other course, click on My Profile, find the one that's called Amazon. You'll complete guide to Amazon, KTB publishing. And I'll go into more detail about them. And that's included. You won't have to pay anymore for that. But fiddle around that pricing when you are ready, you're now done. Publish, paperback book. Okay? So now we've hit Publish. You get this window here saying your paper back has been submitted and Amazon is now reviewing your book. As I said, right at the beginning of this course, it can take up to 72 hours. With a relatively simple book like this, I found it takes a lot less than that, normally about 24 hours. What do you have to do now is keep an eye on your email, the email that you signed up for your kVp account with, and hopefully you get an email from kVp. I shall not be able to show you. Here is the email that you will get something similar to this if your book is approved. If you follow the steps that I've laid out, it should be approved. No problem. So look for your email, check your email. Keep an eye on your email, and you'll get an email with that title. Your paperback book is available on Amazon store. This is obviously not that book. This was a different book, but this is the e-mail I got. If something was not quite right with your bulk and then you'll get an email like this saying attention needed. Please review your title and it will give you the I mean, first off, if you get this e-mail, please don't freak out. It doesn't mean your book is rejected and you'll never be able to publish it. It will give you the issue. So in this case it was an issue with the cover. And then again, as I said, these tend to be the vast majority of causes for rejection has something to do with an image or cover that wasn't quite the right size. It says resize your front cover so that the image or background on the front cover extends far enough beyond the edge. This is similar to what I showed you to do with that white rectangle. So all you need to do then is go Don't panic code and fix the issue. Then re-explore in Canva, re-exported from Canva, re-upload it to ADP, and then go back, go, go back through the print preview and then make sure everything's good and then hit publish again. Now that will re-trigger the approval process. You'll be waiting for another, let's say 24 to 72 hours. But hopefully that you'll get published the second time. But the moral of the story is, if you followed the steps as I've laid out, particularly if you've done an 8.5 by 8.5 inch paperback book, it should be published. No problems. So look out, check keep an eye on your email. For that email. If you do get one saying attention needed, then don't freak out. Make the necessary changes in Canva, re-export from Canva and then re-upload it to the KDE platform. And you should be fine. 9. Next steps: Okay, that's it. So hopefully within 24 to 72 hours, you will be a published author if it's your first time, double a special. Congratulations. If you get an e-mail back from Amazon saying your book has been rejected for whatever reason and you can't figure it out or you have any other questions, just drop me an e-mail info at Adrian jay Kwan.com. And in terms of next steps, if you're someone who is interested in publishing not just children's coloring books, but maybe other books or maybe even making a business's side hustle out of it. Then do check out my other courses. Just click on my profile. You'll see the building library of the delight, their ever-expanding library of courses that I'm putting out. Some children's books such as these. Some are much more complicated books, proper novels, coffee table books, things like that. I've also pulled out a course about doing your own podcast. You're interested in things like that. Click on My Profile, check out the other courses. If you enjoyed this one, then please leave me a review or send me an email letting me know how you got on. And frankly, look, if you've managed to publish a book, send me the link because I'd love to check it out. Check it out. I've had a couple of people now write me reviews or semi messages saying thank you so much. I'm now published for the first time and that is the main goal. That wasn't main golf courses like this that I produce is to be very practical. I don't want to just talk at you about book publishing. I actually want you to follow step-by-step, as you saw, wasn't always perfect, but follow step-by-step and by the end, actually have a book published. So that's next steps. Have a look at the other courses and look, you can go through and publish another book like this. You don't have to just publish one. And I encourage you to publish more than one because the more you publish like any other skill, the better you're going to get. So whether you want to publish for profit or just publishes really, really cool, unique gifts and trust me on that one, when people get unique, tailored books published just for them, they're blown away that you could do that. They never would have thought that's possible. But whichever way you want to go, best of luck with your journey. Again, any questions? Just e-mail me infrared Adrian, jay Kwan.com. Thanks for watching. I will see you next time.