How to Write, Create and Publish a Stand-Out Children's Book and Self-Publish on Amazon KDP

1. How to Write, Create and Publish a Childrens Picture Book: Hello and welcome. My name is Ronnie, and thank you very much for joining this course about how to create a children's picture storybook, or the bestselling author, or the creator of over 350 books. And I'm also the founder of the life gradual Publishing Group. Now, what I want this course to be about is how to teach you all of those skills and tricks to be able to create your own children's picture storyboard. I've created a number of children's books myself. Therefore, I want to lean on that experienced teach you what you need to know to be able to load those books up onto platforms like Amazon, Katie pe, and english Spark. So during the course, I'll be showing you how to create books like this one. Similar to this one. But I'm going to go through the process that I take to crack these books. So let's get into the content of this course. Second, show you everything that you are going to be learning. So let's run through the different things that we're gonna be covering and the different steps that you need to do to create your own children's picture storybook. Now the course is split up into eight different sections. Personally, we're gonna be covering the journey ahead. So what is your purpose for creating your children's picture storybook? And also cover the five keys to running success. Section two will be creating your framework that will involve the book research in creating your manuscripts. Section number three, your title and subtitle. So what are the things to consider? And making sure you're using the right keywords in your title and subtitle. So your book can be found section number for the format and the structure. So we're looking at a, designing your book and what that's gonna look like. And the type of book to create. Is it a hard book? Is The paperback, isn't an e-book? Is it a combination of all three section number five of the design? So we're talking everything designed, bringing together the elements for our book, making sure we get the illustrations. Do we outsource for illustration work? Do we do it ourselves? If so, where can we find those images? Section number six is the upload process. Now if you don't already have an Amazon kVp account, I'll show you how to create one. Next is how to upload your book correctly to Amazon, kVp, and another platform called Ingram Spark, which is also another global distribution channel that you can use for your books. Then we're looking at a marketing and advertising. Now, marketing and advertising are two different things. And I'll show you what they are. And we're going to look and identify ways we can advertise a book and ways we can market our book. Number eight is the conclusion. So, uh, wrapping up the process and bringing all the skills and all the steps together for one final look, before we finish up the course. I'm really looking forward to sharing my knowledge and teaching you all the steps that are required to create your own children's picture storybook. So let's get into the course now. 2. Publishing a Childrens Book in 2025: Hello. I just wanted to provide a 2025 update, and to provide you with reassurance that what you're about to view in regards to the course content is as highly relevant today as it was when I first created the course a couple of years ago. Now, since that time, I've had thousands upon thousands of students that have enrolled in the course, which is just fantastic. And I've had some excellent feedback and brilliant reviews of students that have gone on to publish books and be very, very successful self publishers on platforms like Amazon KDP and Ingram Spark. I continue to publish children's books. I love the opportunity to create a positive impact, and you'll probably see that within the course content. I love to be passionate about what I'm teaching. I want you to succeed, and I want you to have fun doing it, as well. It's not all about creating books to create a passive income. Yes, that is something that comes with creating great books, but you need to have a passion towards creating and publishing the books in the first place and wanting to make a positive difference. So I really hope that you enjoy the content. Again, it's probably one off if not my most popular courses, and it will probably continue to be that way. I will make adjustments and changes to the course when things might change within the industry. But as it stands right now, the course is up to date, and I really hope you enjoy how to publish a children's book with Amazon KDP. So without any further delay, I look forward to seeing you on the course. Good luck. 3. Section 1 Introduction - The Journey Ahead: Welcome to section number one, the journey ahead Sign. In this section, we'll be covering off these four key areas. Number one, your purpose for creating and publishing your book. Number two, why self-publish? The three, Five K's to book creation, success? And number four, your pen name. Let me get into these lessons now. 4. Your Purpose for Creating and Publishing Your book: In this lesson, I want you to identify what your purposes for creating and publishing your children's picture storybook. There are many different reasons why people create and publish books. It's important that you identify what yours is because it's gonna be the driving force to make sure you get all these steps done. And make sure you can get your book published on Amazon, kVp, on Ingram spark, or even approach a publisher about publishing your book. Now, h of us have different reasons and, uh, why, why is it that you want to create this book? Now, Moby, to become a first-time author, it might be that you've got a dream of Credit Mobilier and making a positive difference. Perhaps you're part of a group or a network and you have an expertise in a particular area. And creating these book will help to spread your message. What if the reason is, whatever the purposes you need to keep it front of mind when you're creating your book. Guarantee. They're gonna be Tom's where it does become challenging. They might be hurdles that you need to overcome when you're creating your book. But whatever happens, you need to make sure you keep in front of mine what that purposes, what is your why? And it really helps to establish some goals around your publishing and what you really want to achieve at the end of this course. Now these lessons, again to be tiled towards the steps that you need to take. But make sure that when you identify what your book is gonna be about, that you really try and Tyler, the steps and I'm talking about towards your book and creating your book. I want you to pause at the moment, even just get out a blank piece of pipe up and to write down, why do you want to create these book? As I said, it could be that you want to become a first-time author. It might be that you want to pause it, have a positive impact. It could be that you wanted to create a small business. A large business. It might be a publishing business log off, or it could be to create a passive income or long-term passive income stream that you can name, create more books on, and create a bit of a series as well. These are the things that are important. And even though it's a part of the book creation process, we're not actually physically doing anything apart from maybe writing a few things down in regards to goals, it is a very important part of the process. As I mentioned, make sure you pause, write down what your purposes for creating your book. That will then establish a bit of a framework about what you want to create. And therefore, it will also help you to think about the con of book that he's gonna help you to achieve your goal. So hopefully that listen helps. 5. Why Self Publish: Welcome to this lesson. This course is about creating your children's picture storybook and pretty much teaching you how to self-publish your book. But why would someone self-publishing book? Well, all that experience we'd bought, I've had a book that's been published by global publisher, but I've also published many, many books myself. I had experienced in y, I would consider self-publishing and why. You might also consider at some point in time getting it published. But there are pros and cons, but let's identify why you would look at considering self-publishing your own book. Firstly, you have greater control over the process, including the design, the storyline, and many different elements. When you do add source that process too, I publish them. You do lose a lot of that process. And it's why I decided to go into self-publishing because the first book that I had published under a major publisher did lose plenty of that control. The, I didn't use the front cover that I wanted and I changed up a lot of the manuscripts compared to what I originally created. And then when it did go out to market, the marketing and advertising they used didn't really appeal to me. And in the end of the book didn't sell a great deal just because these elements were missing. So I felt that he fall. I could self-published myself ahead, greater control over the direction of the book. Number two, you will make a greater return or dollar value on each salad your book. Now it obviously depends on how many books you're selling. You might only sell three books, and you might like idlis. But if you had a major publisher, they might sell thousands of books for you, therefore, generating a lot more money. However, if you were to self-publish and you were to do it the right way, then the percentage d e receive as a self-published is significantly greater. As an example, if you had a $15 US book, then you are likely to make a random bat seven rule ICT us doughs per style after printing costs that come into play with the scope for a group like Amazon cardiac pain. And then there's also a 60%, 40 percent revenue split between the publisher and KP. There is a certainly a greater amount of revenue you can generate by self-publishing. But that also comes to density, the number of books you're gonna be selling and wiring up with having the opportunity to market your own book. He's gonna be more beneficial to you because you have maybe a social group, our social following, media following. You think that I made you publish that would do a better job at marketing your book. And he'd rather than sit back, relax, slight things happen for economy approach rather than proactively going out and marketing your book? Number three, the timeline to create your own book by self-publishing is significantly reduced. When I went through the traditional route of getting Mod book published by I published, the process took between eight to 12 months. When you self publish your own book, you can literally have it done in a couple of dice. Now, I wouldn't recommend that because I want you to take your time to get these elements rot. But realistically, geek could create a picture storybook, children's picture storybook in a couple of weeks. If you had the rod elements, the right steps, you put it all together, then there's actually no reason why you couldn't. So that's part of this course teaching you those steps. You can go as fast or slow once you have control. And therefore, he had the ability to be able to create your own books at your leisure. And you can create one book, the correct 200 books. And that is the beauty of self-publishing. There three areas or three key things you need to take in consideration when looking at self-publishing your own book. And also at a later date. Once you've published some books, you might also have a combination. Some books your credit itself, I need might be some books. So you approach publishing group and they can take control of it for you and you can let things go that way as well. So I'm do hope that that information helps you out. 6. How is 'Archie the Bear' performing 9 months since release?: Hello and welcome to this updated lesson. I thought it would be great opportunity for you to share an update on one of mine books for 2023. So currently it is the end of May 2023. So we're going to have a look at Archie the bay, see how it's performing. And I'll give you some feedback about what I've learned during the process of launching the book back in August last year. So what things have done that I felt that have allowed that book to be successful. So let's go and have a look, actually the bed to begin with and look at its performance. So I'm on Amazon right now and I've got the paperback version selected. So this was released back in August 2022. On, in 2022. So let's scroll down and we'll have a look. We've got my a plus content here. So I wanted to show some of the illustrations from inside the book so that customers can really see what they're going to get. I've also got some editorial reviews. And if we have a look here, the bestseller rank at the moment is a BSR of 29,738. The lowest it's been has been about 12,000. The highest being maybe it's 150,000. I've got some really good reviews that have come through. And I think that has really helped with the social proof of this book. So if I scroll back up again, what we might do is have a look at the hardcover version with the hardcover because it's under 75 pages, which is a requirement for Amazon kVp. I've got it listed with Ingram Spark. Now, when you list your book within Spark, as long as everything is the same, so the same title, same subtitle, same number of pages, same everything. Then you can get that book to link up. So that's what's happened in this situation here. So I've got my hardcover listed at $18.99. So I'll click on that. And again, I've got the look inside feature selected. So if you go to look inside, I think I've got it allocated at a bat when t percent or maybe even 30%. So customers again can see what they are going to purchase and they can see the quality of the illustrations. And I always do that. I always increase the look inside feature. So let's click that off. We click that. Let's go down and see how it's performing again, 32 pages. And it's an 8.5 by 8.5 inch book. We scroll down here. It's performing at 213,000 as a BSR. And I'm comfortable with that. Not as many people may buy this in a hard copy version based on the price. But I can't really get much less than that just because of the way that Ingram works. And with your wholesale discount on probably making a bet $1.80 to $2 per book with the paperback book. I'm making proximately probably the same that to those $2.20. So that's the performance of the book that way. Let's have a look at the Amazon advertising that I've been running towards this book. So I'm gonna go to my campaign now. This is the current so last 30 days. So that takes us back until late April 2 now the end of May. And you can see that I've spent $91 over the course of the last 30 days for sales of $571 and a cost of 15.97. And you can even see here really kicked up in the last dial. So I had $43 in sales for an a cos of 6%, which is fantastic. You can see I've got the one product and I've got 221 different keywords that I'm focusing on. Some of actually got switched off. And I've also ensured that when I'm doing these, that I'm I've got a budget of that $4 a day. I've actually reduced it. It started off with a budget of about 10 mi a day. And I've slowly brought that back because I just didn't want to keep on spending too much money. But what this means is there might be sales of $571, but that's not my profit. That's the core price of the book. So if I'm selling my book, Kindles 99, then collectively, the books that I've sold of added up to Father and $71. The profit on the sales are probably need to get under an a cost of 20% to start making a profit. But what this is effectively doing is helping with the algorithm and getting my book continuing to be placed really well on Amazon. So that's why I've continued to run the ads. And the spend is $91 per month. So I'm in front. I'll look at what the sales are compared to the spin. And I can probably continue this to run this ad for a long, long time because it's converting. Well, it's not costing me anything on making a small profit from it. But the organic sales where things really start to kick off. This book currently would be making about $1,000 US per month. Maybe more on some months, maybe a little bit less depending on how it's tracking. But that's the performance of the books so far. So hopefully that really helps. I think for me, the launcher is really important. And I'll talk about the launch in one of my other courses. It's running of the ads in getting them tracking well, again, is another course on Amazon ads that I have. But just ensuring that you're doing what you can to market the book. I've also got another video that I created, which you may or may not have seen about video animation. So I'll quickly show you that animation and you can put that on Facebook. You can put it on Instagram. You can put it on LinkedIn if you wanted to. So I'll show you that animation now. And I can show you, we can get that gig if you wanted to create an animation for your children's future storybook. And here's the video animation. Now got done. I can say that's the animation. It's a fantastic different resource. You can have to market your book. And I had that done with the father gig. So I'll quickly show you where I had that keep done. And you might want to get one done yourself. The gig is through fiber, through Francesco. And you can choose one of these two options here. And this is an Australian dollars, so it's approximately ten or live in US dollars. Click on There, you go through the details. So for basic, you get 25 second animation video, standard 40 s and premium in 60 s. And I just think that it's unbelievable what he can create. And I've used Francesco five or six times myself and I couldn't recommend them highly enough. So that's an option for you to choose if you want to market your book as well. So there's an update of my book, Archie the bay becomes a big brother. Just continue to work hard at marketing your book. Advertising, at creating those book animations, using Amazon ads and just create great books the customers love. And ultimately, if you do create a great book and you can get some traction initially, then that really does help for the long term. And you gotta think long term with your books. It's been great to be able to share this information with you, and I really hope it helps with your journey if you're creating your Children's illustrated storybook. 7. The 5 Keys to Book Creation Success: In this lesson, I want to identify the five keys to book creation success. What do i is five critical things you need to make sure you apply to give you a book every chance of succeeding. Now it's not an exhaustive list, but I believe these five things are key to making sure you do have success in your book and the creation process. Let me identify those five things now. Number one is having a comprehensive plan and structure or what we call a framework, all eating into the creation of your book. If you don't have that plan and that structure in place, then the foundations for what you're building could be compromised. We need to make sure that we do plan accordingly and we had everything organized so we have flow in the development of a book. Number two is a story that is engaging for your audience. Then this will be a bat. You are identifying who your audiences through the research process and having an engaging book and tile it to that audience is one of those critical areas for your success, for the creation of your book. Number three, it needs to be well-researched. So you have a topic or an issue mine that you can then create your story around, create your illustrations or your graphics or your design around. It needs to be well-researched. Number for includes the key elements. And we know that a great cover is gonna be critical. The description and the story flows. These are the things that we need to look at to make sure we have success. And the cover design is one of those areas that we are going to be covering in the course along with the description. And when you create your storyline, that's where we think about how it's going to flow. How it's gonna start, what's the midpoint and what's the endpoint? And number five is created with passion. If you can create a book with passion, that will come out. If you don't have a passion towards the topic. Sometimes you can see that in a book, the professionalism might not be there. As he is, as important as it is to research your topic annual niche. You still need to be passionate about your book. And you need to make sure you're aligned with the purpose of your book as over outlined earlier in the course, you need to have that passion. Because when you had the passion, when you have the drive, when you have the goals, you make these steps happen and they become a much, much easier process to bring together. When you are passionate about your book. These are the five key things that you need to consider when we're making our book through the creation process to bring together, to give it every opportunity to be a success. 8. Your Pen Name: When you create your book, you don't have to alter the book and you're nine. There are many different options that you need to consider and how you're going to position your book when you do publish it. When you do load your book up to Amazon kite API, you had the option of choosing what your paint is going to bake. Let me show you that process and I'll be going more into depth in these later in the course when you do upload your book. But let me show you where you do into that information. When you're on Amazon card, a PE, when you've gone to your bookshelf. Again, this is gonna be shown to you when we do the upload process. But when you scroll down, you're entering the book. Details, the title and the subtitle, can add series information. This is where you can enter your author information. Now it doesn't have to be your first-name annual last night. It could be your brand for your publishing. It could be a name that means something to you. When you're choosing your pen name. You do need to think about the long-term though, because you can't go back and change that night once it's put in place when you publish your book, that seats. And that's where you need to think carefully bad at even give it a dye to think about what you're gonna do. Now I'll have a number of different pin names and I operate on them just depending on the kind of book on creating. Now, for some more longer phone books, I've used my real name. When I've created some books under some children's publishing, it might be under another pin nine. And there are different ways that you can organize your pin names so that it is to do with the kind of book you're creating. You might have a gift book series creating underpin nine. You might have longer phone book, Richie create. And that might be under your own personal brand name. You might have a set of books under your publishing brand name. These are the kinds of things that you need to look at when you're creating your pin nine. Now for many people, we can just use your own name, which is perfectly fine and will in fact give you some great credibility. Particularly if the book is a bestseller, then you as an author will be the person who's attached to that bestseller tag. And that's a great thing to have, particularly if you're looking at expanding your publishing under your own pain. That's where it is there. But let's have a quick look on Amazon at different pen name examples that I can show you. If we have a look at a few children's picture storybooks about this during the fire station. On this one you've got Jupiter's Leslie Maguire and Joe, and f2. Then you've got fire truck dreams by Sharon and dive. Then you've also got one here by decay, then these ones by Jacob design. So this shows you don't have to put that you can use your first name and last name. It could be your brand name as well. If you look down here, but the more you can probably safely go to the next page, you'll see some other different options that people have done. Blue wave press. This is Mark, he's done one normal Bradwell. Love your neighbor code. It just gives you some examples of the Y that people can structure their books with the pin names. That's for you to consider. What's gonna be best for you for the long term. This one, for example, to tender monsters. So if we click on there, then this will actually bring up all the books that to tender monsters have. And they might have children's books. They might have different publications for learning. And you can see all the different branding ones here that customers are also ballpark. If you went to little Brian publishing, then this person hasn't used there the personal name. They've used a brand name when they publishing. And that is considered at pin nine as well. Hopefully that helps you in thinking carefully at that, what she wanted to do regarding your pen name and how you want that to reflect your long-term publication for a children's picture storybook. 9. Section 2 Introduction - Creating Your Framework: Welcome to section two. Section two, I want to create your framework so it is the basis of your book and we need to cover off some really important elements in this. So that's gonna be research and finding your book idea. It's Amazon niche research, creating your story, creating your written manuscripts, grammar, and spelling check. And then finally, pitch camp. Bank. How many pages should you make your book? Is there a specific amount of pages you should create? Or is there a formula that you should be looking at? Let's move into these next lessons about creating a framework. Making sure that we can create a structure, a ran a book to make it a successful book. 10. Research and Finding Your Book Idea: Part of the success of your book will all come down to your research. And generating ADI is from that research to help you with a book crashing process, self-identified a few key things that we need to do when we are completing our research and the reasons why we're getting up doing your research. Let me show you those now. Instead, these are the key things that are identified for the reasons you should be doing thorough research. Number one is odd Dia collection, getting those ideas down on paper. So we know what we're looking for. Data collection, we've got some Chrome extensions that we're gonna be using to make sure we get that data and making sure that what the idea is that we do have are actually gonna be suitable for a book creation. What works and what doesn't work? What are the kind of books that actually are working? And what are the common themes that are working as part of the development? Training patterns? What are the things that are actually working right now? Inspiration, you do get a lot of inspiration from your research and you'll be surprised at how many ideas you do get that you can actually focus on for another book, elimination, we're eliminating some initial ideas that we might have had that really probably aren't going to work. We've got different marketplaces. Are the different markets for yearbooks. One bookmark work well in the United States. One bookmark work well in the United Kingdom, and another bookmark work well in Germany or Austria, or even Canada. Finally, do we have a book that is evergreen or is it short-term? What is our target? Do we want to book that's gonna be selling for yeast to come? Do we want a book that's only going to be selling for the next six months. For me personally are lot to create what we call evergreen books. Books that they're going to have a long-term future. So once you create that book, you had the opportunity of generating styles and having a longer-term impact, or sorry, having an impact for a much longer-term period of time. These are the things that we do our research for. Now. When we deployed our research, we need to be documenting this information down. And our recommend that you use what we call a research truck or a niche trek up. And let me show you what our develops and something that you can simply create yourself. This is the document and an Excel spreadsheet of keyword or book titles that are not document here, we've got whether it's called a long or short tau keyword. And I'll talk about this more in our research. Now that's the book ranking on Amazon again, or go into more detail about what the bay SREs. We could search results under different book categories. And we've got the number of books under 150 thousand BSR, which is here, That's the book ranking on Amazon. And we've got whether it's a piece on the first page of your search results when we're doing it, or how many pages down with these. But I'll go into more detail in the following lessons about what these different statistics are, what the information is. So you can actually create your own tracker and use that for your research, for your children's book that we're going to be creating as part of this course. 11. Chrome Extensions: When we perform our research for a book, you need tools that are going to help you. And there are two Chrome extensions at all, personal use that are free to use, that I think you'll find very helpful. Now if you have it already uses Chrome extensions. I'll give you a quick overview of what they are and how they can help you. So one is called IMC extension, expand. And I'll be showing you on Amazon have these Chrome extensions will help you. The second one is DSM zone quick view. Again, these are really good tools when you're doing a research to get that extra data that we need to qualify whether your book is a book that customers are potentially going to be searching for. It, that is your angle bangs styles. But you might have a different purpose for creating a book. But I want to make sure I show you in each GCE today's Chrome extensions. Let me show you how both of these would work if you're doing your niche research on Amazon. Now I'm on Amazon. And if I was to think about a different area that I'm looking at, perhaps writing a book on. What I might do is say, books for children about the beach. What I would do is rot that. And what I'm aiming to do is get as much information as I can. Click on it. And if we scroll down, you'll see these little box start to light up just here. Now, that is this one which is the Ds, sorry, DSM is on quick view. And you can see the Chrome extensions at work up the top here, the one across here, that's the IMC expand. And I'll show you how both of them work. Let's do this. 1 first, the DSM, Amazon quick view. The DSM is on quick view will show you the ISBN number and the book ranking. Now that's called the BSR. And it's basically the base R is the ranking that Amazon has across all the books that are on there. So for example, if we go down here, Let's do one more. Let's go to this one here. Ketone plugged. This one, is ranked 36,471 out of all the millions of books that are on Amazon, you've got the ice in number. So that's similar to an ISBN number or the book identification number that we have for Amazon. Now, if you wanted to, you could pie some more to get what they call a price history that I just use the free version. And you can use this data when you're adding it to your research. So we just scroll down and it will really help us when we're doing our research to see how that book, all those particular books are ranked. This book here ranked ICT 1464, this book down here, 190,224. Now it, That's the suggestion expand. So if we go back and just say we did children's book on, these are team. This will start to expand the different things. Let me just fix this. We'll see if we can bring something out. So children's book on and see how it starts to bring up all the different options. And then these are extra keywords that the suggestion expand at least doing. If we did kids visit to what might happen. Doctor visit log book for kids. Let's see if we can get one word expands even more. If we go hospital visit. This will start to come up with different keywords as well. Expense them. Now, another really good one more up a spelling book for and it's got Tori Spelling Book, Spelling Bee book. So the expanded just gives you additional keywords there. Sometimes you get lots, sometimes you don't get many. Now, I use these additional keywords that expand a has just a tap into different niches, and this is perfect. Here we go. If we just need spelling, It's got spelling right for spelling for Minecraft is spelling for dyslexia. Spelling and vocabulary. Spelling with love. These are the expander keywords that we get if we didn't have the Chrome extension put on for the IMC expander. We would only get these ones here, which are Amazon's. But the expand it gives us a lot more and we can start to plug those in to our niche trek out to see what keywords people are searching for, all customers are searching for. I really do like it. If we have a ***** book, you can see the different words that are coming up. Beach books for toddlers, for example. And then we can for Let's do eight. If anything comes up. Now it doesn't come up at the moment. But what we're looking for, popular books that we can use. Now the other different extension that I use, but it's a paid extension, is this one just here? It's called KD spot and it's a once off lifetime payment. And what this one does is gives us some more information about the ranking. Keywords in the book enhance ranking. Swipe for this to light up, so far I wrote beach book toddlers. Then the average styles, right? And that means across all the books, across those keywords, it's actually ranked at 12,053, which is very, very good. We're looking at having an average styles rung a rank under Beta 150 thousand. So it's very good. The average monthly revenue for these keywords is 44 thousand. And you can see how these books are ranked based on an information, popularity potential and competition. You do have the option of using those free Chrome extensions. And also if you wanted to, you can get that software called KD spot. You can consider that. Now. We would scroll down and we can see the different rankings that are here. And what I would do with my tracker is start to rot down the words that are actually popular or Familia the customers are looking for. Let's go down a little bit further. These different ones here, what are we looking at? What's the nine? Let's do visits. Books. We do a search. This society is 3 thousand results across all the books using those keywords. You can, you can see some of them aren't related at all. But if we did kids visit books, Theta is 375 results. And this will start to show us a few more books that we're looking at, creating a kid's sightings ocean. That's a start at children's book. This gets first day, first pitch day, and another one on looking to see if there's anything in here that I can create multiple column. I can say it is a visit to the doctor vanishing like that's a spots I call a sponsor book. Now I do go into more detail in this, in another course about Amazon kVp publishing. And that might be a good course to look at because it does have specific information about the niche research and going to significant depth about what you should be looking for. For us. What I think that we need to be looking for right here is just some ideas. As I mentioned, we're looking at eliminating some oddities that aren't going to work. We want to see what is. So let's, let me show you another way we can do this. Online. Children's Picture Story book. Let's just say what comes up here is 70 thousand results. We want to make sure that we're not competing in 70 thousand on the books, we need to come up with some keywords that a G9 to niche down a lot more. If I had children's picture storybook about let's say, police. It's a thousand search results here. And we're looking for books that might give us inspiration. Books we know we can probably compare it against. So what I would do, we've got the Amazon suggestion expander that we can look and see if there's any other words that expanding doesn't look like it. So we can leave that one. But what we can do is use the D Amazon quick view, have a look and see how these are ranking. These ones here is ranking. Eleven thousand, one hundred and nineteen thousand. If we hover over the picture, you can also see where it's ranked in particular categories. So children's jobs and caries, reference books. This cell is rank. These will give us information about the number of pages which we'll be covering in another lesson. This one is 24 pages. Paid. The cat is ranked 3,640 x are really well ranked. We can hover over 24 pages again. The other thing I look for is a sizable this is an eye point, sorry, eight by eight inch. And these are the things you need to look at when you're doing research. And it would be worth writing these down as well. Let's have a look place officers on patrol trend in 12 thousand we would probably looking for books under ranking of about a 150 thousand. He's probably ideal. Diet or PlayStation, 25 thousand died the fire station, 2 thousand. So these are popular books, books for kids about visiting the police station, books about visiting the fire station. Let's have a look at what other ones might be trending. Let's have a look mod dog. Awesome ambulances. What I would do is click on it. They didn't have a look at inside the book to see how hot this book would be to credit our own version. Let's have a look. I've used an illustrator for this. You can see a few pages in and how they're actually rotting the story. I can see it is quite simple what they've written here. You can then see the back information. Let's have a look a bit more into this. It's ranked really, really well. It's got a 4, I'd out of five stars. Then what we can do is again, look at the size is 7.8 by eight inch. It's ranked 301 in this category, Five, 23 in this category, and 609 in this one. What I also like to do is look at the different reviews. And what you can tell from these reviews is what's working, what's not working? What could be improved? What could you do if you create your own children's book on awesome, that ambulances, the G could actually create your own little gap in the market to create your children's picture book as well. That should be a source of inspiration. Remember where we're looking for things that are working, things that aren't working, improvements that could be made, data and these, it needs to be written down in your truck. You can find app if this is a book you should create. Let's have a look as well. If you look along here, you can see other options that you choose. There's another ambulance book, David, that's not really what we wanted to do. Kc going along. They might or might not be anything here that we can look at. That's a good way of looking at the different results. Let's go back again here. Scroll down and be further police officer. It's probably gonna be ranking 300s, I think once it loads 34. Well, let's have a look and see how this person has done this side. My daddy is a police officer. It's obviously popular. We look at the Pij is 24 pi just seems to become thin. It's an eye point fought by ICT, 0.5 inch. It's got lots of reviews, very, very good reviews. Let's have a look and see how they've written this book. Illustrations of quite simple doesn't show us a lot in the book, but sometimes the reviews do go down here. And also you can see my day is a police officer that place I bases place opposite daddies. This is obviously a thing that the author has gone for. Going down. Here we go. This will show us inside the book. Before we go to work. My dad, he wants to meet tonight. You're quietly say could not and keeps me on my head. Let's have a look at it. Read about that information. Let's go to the next one. There we go. It can read through it for net what's working, what's not. Can avoid bends in the book. Paralyzed reviews. And you have a look at what is good about these kinds of books. 4.9 out of five. What I'd be doing is noting down a police of a book. And then I would look inside and see what the writing style is like, what the illustrations alike or the California one of the graphics lock. These are things that I will draw it down, went on doing more research. You need to find niche of yours that you think work well, it could be. A bad place. It could be about the ambulance. It could be a bad dig is it could be for thought of books. But this is what I do when I look through the different research and I'll do, let's just go back here. And we might just do one more look. Stoke children's picture storybook, three days. Let's have a look down here. Bear and Fred, 764. So that's not what we're looking for. We can say that caught die. So you might want to credit children's book a bat costs. Keep going down here. Feed the bear, and then the bay book. Let's have a look down here. We're looking for those cheap children's picture storybooks. One is about the width up. So let's have a look at this. Created back in 201532 pages. Point IT Inch Pretty much. Let's have a look inside. It's really well illustrated. And it will give you a bit of information about head around it. Now this will show you how simple some of these rotting and creation of the rotting is. Drip, drop, skip and hop. Splish, Splash, sidewalk dash. When, when we go square. So I can see it's more the illustrations doing the talking, the actual writing. And you can see how well it easy illustrated. And it's obviously very, very popular. Being ranked at, if we go down here, say the ranking at 756, add up all the books on Amazon. You can see the ranking in the categories. And these are things you should be rotting down as well. The categories that these books featuring in they know what I'll do is go down, have a look at any reviews with the images. And then also have a look at what reviews are saying. You might want to go to the three-star review and have a raid, foreign edited things, anything in there that you could improve on as well. And this is where I would use a similar niche track out to what I showed you. Or you can create your own. If I was creating one here on lot, put here my keywords or title. Then you might want to have the actual niche. So it might be a bad place, officer might be a BATNA ambulance, sloppy about far thoughts and might be that the beach could be that swimming safety, all those sorts of things. I would note that down. Then you could put the base off for that kind of book. Now if you did have KD spy and you wanted to look at it. So if we go here, we got back at children's picture storyboard bear. Then I could use KD spy if I had that. And I'll just check this. And now as keywords have an average sales rank, a bite IT, 70 thousand. So if we go back to our tracker, we might want to have average base and you could rot that number in there. So we're really looking for books under Beta one hundred and fifty thousand, a hundred fifty thousand BSR. If we go back here again, we can see by using Katie spot, you can go to keyword analysis. It will show you whether those words are actually in the title or not. And keyword results are world-class or word cloud. These will tell us across all the books that KID spy showing what are the key words that are actually coming up in those titles or subtitles. Psychiatry, spy, something you can also use, but remember the ease of charge, a one-off charge to use KD spot. But you can still get away without having to spend any money on those free Chrome extensions, which we look up here, which is DSM is on quick view and the IMC suggestion, expanded data, things you need to look for when you're doing your research. 12. Amazon Niche Research: Welcome to this lesson. We are going to be going into even a little bit more depth for your Amazon niche research, we need to start to identify what books that you might lock to create based on the needs and wants of customers. But also there might be some inspiration you can get from doing this niche research. Now using Amazon is just one tool that chicken news. You can use a lot of other platforms to do your niche research. But I've found that if I'm using the world's largest online bookstore for my research, then it's gonna be giving you a pretty good idea about what a need and want there is from customers. Now when I do my research, I tend to use Amazon.com because it is the biggest market. Therefore, I have more data to work from. Let me show you a bit more information about Amazon niche research. And then also make sure that we're using our spreadsheet so that we can keep track of any ideas that also come up. Let's get on to that now. Now got onto Amazon. And what our tend to do is go to the bestsellers. You can see the link up here, amazon.com forward slash bestsellers books. Amazon, that will give me all the current bestselling books. And I also make sure I've got an American zip code. And then I'm also in incognito mode. Now the reason I do that is because if I don't have incognito, Then Amazon, the algorithm of Amazon can pick up other books or interests pain looking at. Therefore, it might obscure the data and the results that we're looking for. Now, what would be the first thing that I would do? Well, it depends on if I have a particular niche that are already have in mind. If your research is going from a place where you have no idea what you're looking for, then this is probably the best place to start. If you already have identified a niche, you can start to topping what that niche more pay or that idea into the search bar up there. Now one thing that you probably could have on hand is your truck out. And so that would be a simple spreadsheet that you could start at least any ideas that you come across. And also how those books particularly ranking on Amazon as well and therefore in natal not. Let's get into firstly, the cons of things that all will look for where the area is not going to first, just to check out what competition MOP and whether it's a niche that I've published, we'll be looking at, again, it depends if he already had a predetermined story or nature or did you want but let's just go. Assuming that you don't have an idea at this point on this guide to children's books. What I would do is just scroll down and at the time of filming, it's just before a star. Therefore, a lot of books are going to be showing. You can see there's a common theme amongst the best sellers at the moment for an ethane, what I would normally do is start to go a bit deeper with my niche research. I might go to, let's try animals. They might go for, let's go for farm animals. And then what I normally do is fine, if there's a common theme throughout here. I can go down. What we're looking for is the base of our rank and say what's coming up there that remain. Remember that is the ranking across all the Amazon Books. The problem we're going to say farm animals is that it's not being specific enough. So I'm not even go a bit deeper thinking about creating a book about the beach. So I might go back and see if we've got something about holidays were AT tools. Let's go here. Let's go. If there's anything here. Water sports. Possibly. If I created the book, a bat, go into the beach. Pete the Cat is a popular book. It's one hundred, ten hundred, four hundred and three. If you look at other swimming books as well, you need to say whether they are bad the beach with a better pool, whether they are bad, sweeping, safety sorts of things. If always looking here, mesial and swim, pool time. Let's stop me. If we keep going down. What I'm looking for, different things that might be popping up. Definitely want to swim books or not. Let's have a look at the key words. Total. Book. A lot of results here we are looking for under maybe 2 thousand results. Other thousands even better. This mob mainly, that's very broad toddler beach book. So maybe we have a look down one of Daniel's day at the beach. Let's find out what categories these bookies in. Children's books on seasons ranks at a 111. Let's go there. Probably bring up more about the weather and things. So let's just go back. Let's try and find a real ***** book. Maybe if we go back to the Cat book. So have a look. If we scroll back up here. Pete the Cat. So if we go here, beach, It's a bestseller in children's water sports books. That's an idea to have a look at as well. Can you experiences children's Cats books? This is just what I normally do to find out if there's any need for it. I'll click on the category. We're back to this again. What I could probably do in this particular niches for toddlers. Scroll down, Let's these stringent 29 results. So that's much better. What I would also probably do is check out the results for KD SPI, which is a software that I use. And this will actually give me the k words which we looked at. Average sales rank at 65 thousand, which is very good. What I would normally do is eliminate a couple of days. It's probably really good keyword to get involved with. What all would then do is write this down. So what I'll do, I'll show you exactly what I mean. So I have a spreadsheet where do they go? Putting a keyword, search results, we get back up to search results. And we can't here, we've got 329 search results. So we put that down as well in the truck out. We are looking for maybe under a thousand. So that's really good. And then the next thing I want to do is font and how many books are under a 150 thousand be a sound page one. So let's have a look. We can go 1234579. Sorry, is roughly 14 books, which is very, very good. We're looking at for maybe five or six. That's very good to have that there would continue in my searches, search for a particular niche. I'd start writing down what particular keywords are being looked for as well. So if I go back up here and I use my expander books for totalled. It's not really about swimming, but it could be books or toddlers to 40 girls. I could use that maybe in my subtitle. Books for toddlers two to four years. Probably put even subtotal for toddlers to four years. Therefore, that could be something on need to include in my subtitle when I'm doing my research. So that's where the expander is really helpful. Today's SPI gave me some more information. So if I went back to katy spy, move this around. What I'm doing is we're clad. They PayPal llama. Okay, with analysis, this would tell us how many books had that in the titles, the keyword, in the title, keyword and description, number of views, cells, rank, and popularity, potential competition. The things that we need to keep an eye on. As we scroll down, you also should look at what book smart stand there for you did you can have a bit of a look and see how popular this one paper the peak, it's a popular title. But let's have a look here. See whether we can have a sod. Sorry Burgess hit my window. Books. Normally just locked to look through. Have a look at the information that is part of these books as part of my niece initial research. Now, what we also need to do is identify if there's other books within the children's books to be thinking must be able to create so on looking at doing one on the beach, just because it looks like there's a need for it, keywords or strong. I think I can get illustrations done at that the beach. As part of my process, there'll be showing through boat, go back to children's books. We can say all these different areas so we can go children's holiday books. And this will give us another good look. And then you go deeper again. So this will keep on bringing it down. Nation rock down as much as we can. So if we have some of books, the cat is obviously popular. Spot is obviously very popular. Another thing is you need to take note of when you're doing research about what standing out, what colors are working. This obviously is not working too well. It's ranked at one million, one hundred and ninety eight. This one looks like speed stretched, and it's a coloring book as well. Again, not not standing out to me, these covers going down. I think we'd go back. And we have got 19 results. I'm not sure how popular it is going to be better. It does have a book here at 6,497. Sponsored book, which means it's someone who is paying for Amazon advertising for that book. Here it is here. What we could do is have a quick look on these. Safe. It's something that you could create, illustrations or getting images that could be potentially free to use. So we scroll down. These are just images, stock images that you could potentially use. And they've got one on an airplane, Dr. haircut road trip. It looks like the reviews are quite good. I've also got one as a Kindle book and a book and a paperback book. And 28 pages. Scroll down here. We further some before and children's around the world books, children's books and children's play in an aviation books. That's another ID go into it so that could be heavy. I'm going to write children's books. Aviation. You keep going down. Have you looked at here travel books, all kinds of things. Now remember the point of this lesson. Make sure that you're writing these down. Check for any totals that are standing out to any subtotals and information. So if you go back to this book here, we're going to have a look at the title and subtitle. Going on an airplane, a total of total books. I think I could probably have added a few more words in the subtitle. They want. You can also do is have a look at how they've done the description. We're looking for a size of these books are the 28 pages. This one is 9.5.5.5. We're also looking at reviews to find out what might be working, what isn't working as well. And that is a form part of your Amazon niche research. All of these elements come into place and you need to find something that is going to be exciting for you to create. Because you're going to be investing your time and effort into creating something that is popular for customers and book that's going to stand out to what's currently being sold. What we're aiming for is a children's picture book to really stand out for customers. That guy, look, I love this book. I'm going to add to the cat on the bite now. Therefore, you start getting more attraction with your styles and it will rank better with Amazon as well. This is a bit of extra information in regards to your niche research. Remember, Amazon pays alley one, you could go to many different other websites, online bookstores, and see what might be training on those sites. I booked a positivity, come up book type yet.com, the Nile bonds and novel target. All those places online stores have the books for you to be able to look at. And they're great source of information and data for you to look at. Remember, do your research, find out what's training, user track, and try and find something you're excited to create. 13. Creating Your Story: Welcome to this lesson. It's back creating your story. Now this is gonna be an important part because we need to get together elements in a structured format that will form your book moving forward. And if you get these elements right, you'll have a much better success right, at making a great book that will stand out to customers. There are two main parts and I'm gonna be covering here. And I'm also gonna show you a template that I developed when I create my kids books, children's books, that will help with the generation of that book and the flow of story. So let me get onto part one of what you need to cover and then part two, and we'll have a look at the template. This is what, a Copart one. And it's got five key areas to it. When you're creating your template for your story. Number one, you need to determine your customer. For example, at I2 to six-year-old child, an eight year old child. Are they a boy or a girl or boy and ago, this is where you bring together these key elements when you creating your story. Number two are the characters of your story. What are they going to look like? How they gonna sound? What impression do you want them to have on your radar or your avatar, as we say. The next one is the plot of the story. How's it going to flow? What are the key elements in it? And how do you want that to come out and become live form in itself when you're creating your children's book. Now before is the theme and message of the story. These are particulars message that you want to convey. Something in there that you want to bring to life. For example, I'm going to be creating a book as part of this course around visiting the beach and about beach safety and having fun at the beach, those sorts of things. So that's gonna be my theme and I'll show you how put that together. And then number five is the kind of story. Is it a running story? Is it the sentences that come together to bring along your characters has a kinda come together. For my story. It will be a rhyming storyline. I locked that writing format for me as a creator and as an author. But also think that at times it brings the imagination of the child to that will be part one. And I'll show you what part two in part it as part of your process for your structure, needs to look like. And it's part of your structure. You need to consider the number of illustrations. Do ADA going to get outsourced and get completed for you? Or whether this illustrations you'll get done yourself. So that's a consideration. In the other part, with part two will be creating your book structure. As in when you put your book together, where are the illustration is going to go? How's it going to flow? What part of the stories on a certain page have that has that kind of flow for you. Particularly if you need to add social illustrations, which I do need to create a book structure so that our handler until the illustrator, then I know where things are going to be positioned. Let me show you a template that are created. And what I'll, what I'll do is actually put that to get up. So you can actually see a finished or completed book structure for you when you want to create your own. Template can be created quite easily just on a Word document. I've just targeted children's book story outline Part one. And these are the key things that we need to consider when we're doing Part one, last story structure. So we're going to have the title and the subtitle. And these are things that you don't need to do from the very beginning. You might come up with a title and subtitle light around when you've done a bit more research, or you have completed your manuscript and you get a bit more of a feel of the characters that doesn't need to be done immediately. But I'll just like to include it there. The categories where they get to sit. And when you're doing your research, it's good idea to write down a couple of categories that your book can fall under. The customer age and demographic. Then you've got the story characters, the other view of the story, and then the theme and message of the story. That would be part one. And I'll show you a completed part one in a moment. But let me just show you those last couple of areas for part two that you need to complete as well when you're creating your structure. This is part two of the structure. So the number of illustrations you are going to be including the top book. Is it a paperback or hardback and a book or a combination of all three layout and the size. So what size is it going to be? Is it going to be? I point to five by 8.25, which is the square kappa? Or is it going to be rectangle? You just need to work through what's gonna be best fuel story or can see that what's going to be best because that's going to be important when you're doing your layout. And then the number of pages the books are wiping doing the research on really were about 24 to 30 pages. My book, I'm gonna consider doing probably that 40 pages. Let me show you a completed version of what this would look like for the book on creating for this course. This is the outline that I've done for my book. My book is called at this point in time it might change. It's called Ali and take the beach adventure. Then the subtitle, the exciting adventures of oriented sun and beach safety for toddlers images. As I said, this smart change. But the characters that I've got all the intense at all, it would be about four years old and he's got his teddy that he takes everywhere. And I do a lot of different adventures together. The potential categories could be Children's water sports books and children's new experiences books. So these are two categories that you can find when you're looking at other books in your particular niche, you click on it, scroll down and have a look at the categories that they listed under the story characters. As I mentioned, I've got all instead. And the book will also include all these parents. The other view of the story. So it's all instead of visiting the beach, I'm super excited that visiting all entailed learn about safety at the beach, sun cream, swimming, etc. And then having lots of fun making sand castles and things. Then the theme and the message of the story is about beach safety and having lots of fans that needs to flow throughout my book. Now you might go to a lot more depth with your outline. But I feel that this is what our new just to get spin inspiration went on creating more storyline. And what that's gonna look like. That will be part one. Let me show you I complete a PO2 of the template that I've created. This is on Pat to structure. Let me just scroll up here. The number of illustrations at this point in time on thinking about item baby, it's gonna be less. Maybe it's gonna be more. But it's I'm thinking around about 38 or 40 pages. It probably wouldn't need to include a bad itanium illustrations. But that might change once a create the story. I'll need to think carefully about that. The type of book I'm gonna do, all three forms or PAG back, back at an e-book. The layout or think and I, 0.25 by 9.25 is a good size. That is the quarter square sort of a book that you can actually have plenty of room for children to afflict through and look at as well. And I do think that the high 0.25 is gonna be a big enough to be able to have the illustrations that are won't notice and cleaves a children can say them and engage with them as well. As I mentioned at that 40 pages, That's my outline. That's how I do more books structure when I'm first thinking through the ideas, what I want to do is make sure I'm capturing that information to begin with. So therefore, when I do start to create the rotting element of my book, they don't know what elements on it to bring into it, such as the characters, that theme with a story. And those sorts of things are what bring together a great book. If you get that structure rot initially. Hopefully that helps when you're creating your own structure for your own children's book. 14. Creating Your Manuscript: Creating your manuscript is something that is very personal to h of it. I can tell you to write a particular way or to do it this way or do it that way. It depends on what gives you inspiration. What is your comfort zone when creating and writing? For me? I grew up having a lot of speeches, storybooks rate to me that we're running storybooks. I've got the most enjoyment out of those kinds of books. And I even feel that mine children have more impact if they read books with rhyming stories. But this is me personally, you might have a different tight on what you want to create with your picture storybook. And it depends on what your strength is when you are writing. My strength does fall in robbing storyline. And I'm gonna show you a part of my story that ought been creating to help give you some, some tips about how our rot. So when you create your own book, you have some information about what others might be doing and how they creating it. So as I mentioned the previous lessons, you need to create your structure first to get your characters. Then it might be worthwhile spending a few hours just sitting there going over a few different ways that you're thinking about rotting. Now you'll reach and manuscripts could take a few days or even a few hours, but it could also take a number of weeks or months. It depends on the time you're going to invest into it, how much you really want to create the book and the tom want around that when you'd love to get it published. So these are sort of things that I can't tell you. This is absolutely how you need to do it, but I will show you what I'm creating it to try and give you a bit of an indication of what that might look like for you. So let me show you a few, a few components of my story that I'm creating for this course that might just help. I've been spending the last few days creating a manuscript around my Ali and tidbits adventure book. These are the first few lines of the book. Grab your sand Bucket, yell Daddy, from the door. We're off to the beach to enjoy the foreshore orientate. We're excited. The beach was always fun. Rock pools, sand castles, and warmth from the sun. They applied this on cream to cover their skin on the United States cheeks and under their chin. You can see how my roaming storyline, um, I hope helps engage the children. And I can actually see the storyline unfolding. And what I've been doing is incorporating elements of my book structure. Look protection from the sun into my storyline from the very beginning, so that I can actually get the children thinking about what they need to do before they go to the beach. They just a few of the lawns and start creating my own book. And each paragraph will end up paying. Probably have an illustration behind that. But as I progress further, what I need to now do we start to think through the story and where I'm gonna apply say's illustrations. For the first one, grab your sand Bucket, yell Daddy from the door. We're off to the beach to enjoy the foreshore. Not include a illustration rot at that point in time at the very beginning of the book. And we've got a dad yelling from the house door that they're bad to go to the beach side. That would may need to be something only to structure for this particular book. Then all integrity or the beta was always fun. Rock pools, sand castles, and warmth from the sun. That could form part of that first illustration. Then the next one illustration would probably be applying the sun creams. I applaud this sun cream to cover their skin on the United States cheeks and under the chin. So they could have an illustration or could have an illustration of the Book of that sun crime being applied. So the children can see had a son crime is applied only in theta. Having fun with that when they're applying that sun cream as well. That gives you a bit of an idea about hemos story is going to look, as I mentioned. I'm gonna do a running story needed to complete the story still. So I'm just going to be spending a bit more time to get that rot. 15. Grammar and Spelling: Ensuring that you have your correct grammar and spelling in your manuscript is gonna be very important if you're not at sourcing some editing and proof checking for your story. What I love to use is a platform or a software called Grammarly. Now, I'll take you to the website of grammarly now. There is a free version. You can download the Grammarly, Grammarly or I paid version. So let me take it that website, grammarly.com and you can download the free version of grammarly. Grammarly will check your grandma, your spelling, your punctuation, all of those elements. Let me give you an example of what it looks like and how you can use it effectively with checking your spelling and grammar. Now, as I mentioned, you can just download Grammarly for free. What I have is a version on my computer, and it actually can be added to your top checking here for your Word documents. And if I wanted to check the grammar and spelling, then all I do is open Grammarly, initial start initializing the session. And it'll pick up any little areas that might be on here. I forgot down here, you click here. And it will give me suggestions if I want or I can ignore them. So it would be this section here. So if I wanted to, I can change it to that. The next one, spelling. So it's suggesting that rock pools in one word. I'd click that and saying castles, check your spelling. It, suggesting that it is one word as well. Now you can use grammarly for your whole manuscript, for descriptions, for all of these elements that you need to have something due the manuscript check to ensure that it doesn't have any spelling errors because that is going to be something that you don't want to have to change once your book goes law, if you'd rather make sure everything is checked before your book goes live. That's grammarly and I use it all the time. As I mentioned, all the easier when we created the book description for our children's book. And I'll show you again how it works, but highly recommended. You can use the free version or you can use the paid version which I have. You're very welcome to check that out. 16. Page Count: So how many pages should you include in your children's picture storybook? Off saying some books that are as low as item in pages and some are a 100 pages. It all depends on your storyline and how you're creating them. But what all would definitely recommend you do is get onto Amazon. But have a look through some of those books that you're going to be competing against or gonna be books that are similar to yours or a similar theme. So let me get onto Amazon. I'll show you some examples because I need to also consider the book that I'm creating and the number of pages that I have. But again, it depends on the number of illustrations you want, the length of your story and the kind of story that you're doing. Research is usually your best friend in finding out what is probably the recommended page count. Particularly for the demographic or the kind of avatar or child that you're aiming to have your book created for someone to Amazon now. And what I'm gonna do is my unresearched towards the number pages that are maybe in might be shooting include for my beach adventure book. If we do total. They took us have a look. I'm just trying to find a book that might be similar to mine. So if we even go to this one, we can have a look here at these 24 pages. You can see just here, just by hovering over the book. This one here is 12 pages, so not many pages at all. Llama, Llama is ten pages. Not many. Had to catch a murmur. That's 40 pages. Paint the cat. Thirty-two pages. This one he had Daniel's dead pages, 22 pages. That's a National Geographic book, 24 pages, bluey 24 pages, ten pages, 24 pages, 12 pages, 24. So it seems to be the 24 pages or bear about is the sweet spot for creating the book. That's 30 pages. 20. Need to think carefully about how I'm putting these put together. I think 30 i pages is gonna be too many for the economy book on creating. If I were to click on this book, it's a board book, which means like it's a hardcover book. And we can do hardcovers. Well, if we scroll down, sometimes we can see inside and say the format. This is the format of this book that got the rotting on the top section. And then they've got that writing there. You can see how this book please put together. The picture is a nice and clear and easy to see. There we go. So that shows probably about 20 per cent of the book for that look inside and it's a good opportunity to see how it looks. The other things that you need to look for when you're investigating the number of pages for your book. Remember, you don't have to copy the number of pages that other people are doing. But it's always worthwhile just researching, getting that data and information to find out how many pages authors are using to create nice, they're popular. Well, you don't want to change it too much if we scroll down here, but further, this one here is 12 pages, 12 pages, 16 pages, 40 pages. So that's 32 thousand ranked. If we look inside, It's not showing us too much. It's a watercolor kind of book that we guy. It's got some really nice illustrations gonna be quite engaging for kids as well. And also have a look at the processing while we're here. So the Kindle book is 50 and it's a hard cover, which is roughly $15.54, that they're not offering a paperback. Which is interesting if we have a look at the size of the book as well, while we're here, we scroll down. It is 9.3. I bought 10.38331 inches, which is a unique saws. I hadn't really seen that psoas before, but it is ranked very well. That's how I determine the number of pages just by doing the research, but also thinking through my story what's going to have the biggest impact? Or don't want to make the book too short if it's going to interfere with how I'm creating the book. But also don't want to make it too long because you need to look at what other successful books or authors are doing. And if they're short sharp books, they might be that's put on later IN for as well. That was just a bit of a lesson through some of my research strategy that I use, falling at the number of pages that I should create, that he's working successfully for other authors. 17. Section 3 Introduction - Titles and Subtitles: Welcome to this new section of that title and subtitle creation. Now the title and subtitle can form a very important part of your book because it's what people are going to see, what they going to feel a connection to. And also the keywords that you use in your title and subtitle a very important for ranking on platforms like Amazon keda. In this next lesson, I'm going to go into depth about your title and subtitle creation and things you need to consider when you are creating those. Now, what I want to do is run you through the process at all would normally go through. It gives you an idea of the thinking behind the structure of the total and what other words are using the subtotal to make sure I get the book ranking in the rod places. 18. Title and Subtitle Creation Process: Creating the right title and subtitle can really help your book to rank on whatever platform you decide to load it up too. If you're deciding to go down the self-publishing route, or if you're using a traditional publisher, they'll also expect that the keywords are using your title or subtitle, Gandhi, ones that customers are searching for. There are things that you need to consider when you're doing your title and subtitle. Unless you have a huge social media following. Or I can do a really successful book launch, then you need to ensure that your title or your subtitle includes the words that people are searching for when I taught that particular topic in the search bar of Amazon as an example. Now when we creating a title and subtitle, we need to do some research initially to pick up those keywords that people are typing. Now, your keywords will include words that the customers are searching for, but then also elements of your book that you might like to include. Now if you can't fit these keywords into your title or your subtitle. You can include them in what they call the seven that gain keywords of KD API. This is something I'll show you when we're loading up our book. But the seven backend keywords on Amazon KD API allow your book to allow your keywords when you're loading up your book to be noticed by the algorithm of Amazon. What I'm gonna do in a moment is I'm going to show you the template that I'll use. And it's very similar to finding popular niches or categories to create your book. But we need to start to write down some of those key words that are in titles and subtitles that waken also use in our book, but also what the customers are searching for. So let's get on to that main template now that she can create using say, an Excel spreadsheet. And you can then start the process that I will follow when I'm looking at creating the title or subtitle of models. This is the template that I've created to help me develop the rot title and subtitle. So I've got the nature of the category. The key words, whether they are long or short tail keyword being a long-tail keyword usually comprises about four or five words. Plus or a short takeaway might be two words. The average BSR of that book. The last couple of columns you don't have to include, but it might be something locked to include. Then what I'll do is once I've got those keywords, then start to develop the title and the subtitle. I also includes any keywords stock can't use in my title subtitle in the backend keywords. What are main bar that I'll quickly show you on Amazon when you're going, when you're adding the seven backend keywords where these will go. When you're on the Amazon Cloud API platform when you're about to logic hookup. Again, I will show you through this process later in the course. But when you feel it in the book title and subtitle, now the seven backend keywords and these ones just here. These are the words that if you can't put them or place them into your title or subtitle because I don't make sense or their words or keywords you want to rank for. You would include, include these keywords in these seven boxes that are provided right here. That's the spice that you do. So when I'm talking about the seven backend keywords, that is the place on the Amazon cat API platform that we're gonna be including them. But let's head back to the lesson, back to research track. And you can also find, gather different keywords via these different platforms as well. And we've already spoken about the Chrome extension that she can have when you're using the Amazon platform. We've already spoken about that, but let's go to Amazon now to try and find some main keywords. We're gonna be focusing on the beach theme just as an example, because that's the kind of book that on creating. And then hopefully you can see the process all correct. By doing that, let me jump into Amazon now, the first thing I'm gonna be doing is talking something in the search box just up here. And net will start to trigger off different words that customers are looking for. We might do law. Book about the *****. See how it's called here. What I would do is record toddler books about the beach in my truck out. So I go back to my checkout books that you can actually sorry, I need to put that here. Initial category might be. Total low-water activities. What I need to do is start list of the keywords down here. But before we do that, we go toddler books about the beach. We call this the long tail keyword because it's got more than three. So the keywords involved there. Now what we do is once we start searching that, we click here, then we have looked at the results, is 2 thousand search results there. So I'll probably include that here. The average BSR, you're welcome to include this if you wanted to. But that would be if you are using KD spot. So what I'll do, I'll wait for that to load up. The average sales rank is 50,400. Could probably get rid of that one there. We'll just say 30 thousand. So we go back here, 30 thousand. And we can also find the number of books that are under 150 thousand on page one. So what we do, we have here we just wanted to make sure we include the rot one. So we got 123456789101112131415. I think it's about 2525 books under a 150 thousand are on page one. Night. People are searching for a toddler, books about the *****. Now probably wouldn't be something I would include a title. Definitely consider including that email subtitle. I'll go back to caddy Pago. I'll start with other books. So we might see kids. Books like that. Keith spoke about the beach. Let's have a look. So there's 2 thousand search results. So what I'll do is copy that. Another long time. It's 2006 years old. Average BSR. So let me have a look again. This is not compulsory for you to do this. To just check to see how it's tracking with Katie spy. We have up here, get rid of those couple, 56 thousand. And you could count the number of books, but that's a chi. Then what we do is go back into this again and we can write something else. Let's have a look. This brings up any else kid's book about beaches. Kid's book a bat the beach. Let's have a look here. Similar. So I probably wouldn't write that one down. What about book page books for toddlers? Books, baby's speech, the children. So these are ones I would probably brought down Beach books for toddlers, which is a sign. So what I would normally do is Control Print Screen. Try and remember them. Page books for toddlers, babies. What I would do Beach books for children. That what I would do is just check what the most popular read, 50 thousand search results for beach books for children. It's probably too many. Let's write down. We've already got it written down. But what we need to do is just have a look at what the mind keyword. Just scrolling through having a look at the beach. Beach. Hello, lighthouse. Fancy Nancy saying counsels, Pete, the Cat paid at the beach. Just keep going down, having a bit of a look at how people are structuring their title and subtitle. Ahmad even do a quick little caddy spy search on this one. The very low there, which is amazing. But there is a lot of competition. 32s, we'll just say 33,004. This one here. Let's see average sales rank of Allah books on Amazon across those books listed in the top 20. The average book rank is 33 thousand out of all the books on Amazon for people that are searching for books, Beach books for children. You can say down here, popular is very popular, but potential, but there's a lot of high competition. You need to take into consideration. What you do is just continue to top in different books. This one here, summer and beach theme activity book for adult children. Probably wouldn't include that, but it might be a backing keyword that you might like to look at. We can have a look, obviously something that customers are topping. We have looked at Katie spy to look at popularity. A few books here. Rankings where we'd be high, then all I would like, get rid of these really, really high ones. Could potentially put it in. But there's not much competition neither. So it's not too bad. Just included not really credit for adult children though, but I'll will just put it in just in case. What I'm doing is building up my list of keywords. Therefore, I've got words that I've been using, my title, my subtotal, it must seven backend keywords. We don't creating my title or need to include maybe what main characters are. Then need to include the sorts of words in as well. What I could probably do, denture. Probably do that as the main keywords. These ones are quite there probably would be including my subtotal. So I could probably do what's the most popular. So we can do some of beach beach book. So it will Beach kids, kids, it looks a bit beach. That one's pretty well. So I'm just thinking through these toddler books about beach. You probably do. Total of what you can do is include that. We have. As long as it makes sense, we need to make sure it flows. Including these main keywords. So what people are searching for apical group here. So total a book about the beach. And we could also do story book for children. What I'm trying to do is include some of these key words that were in my research in the title and the subtitle. There are words here that account includes, for example, Beach books for babies. I would probably include it in this section just here. Or I could do coping that wrong one copy that I included there. And what else haven't. And toddler books with children probably include that one as well. Now you could just have children rather than repeating it, but I actually locked to include the full words because that's what people are searching for. So you just continue to add the words in here. Beach, safety might be another one. The safety. You need to think about. Other words that people might be thinking of. Some book. For kids. Again, I'm just thinking about what people are searching for, but I'm also using the data when you formation and I received when I was doing my research. And I've only done this research for ten minutes. You should spend some more time on getting the results to make sure that you're getting your words fewer, title, your subtitle, and your seven backend keywords. Main thing that I want to highlight is whatever you do, just make sure that it doesn't seem lucky. You've just thrown in words to include them as keywords in your subtitle or your title. They need to flow, they need to make sense. And that is important. So I've got oriented the beach adventure, my subtotal Bay toddler book about the beach. Some of the same pizza storybook for children. That would be fine. And I just need to find three other keywords that would go into my backend keywords for my Amazon card API when I'm loading it up. So that's how I would start to get my title and my subtotal. You just need to make sure you're including the main topics and themes of your book in your title or subtitle E7, backend keywords and use words that customers are going to be searching for when they are topping things of interest into that top search bar because that's how your book is going to appear. That has gonna be ranked by Amazon and nets where you need to make sure that you do your study and research to get the right words for that. Let's have a look at one last one. The beach book. Let's have a look here. Pitch book. 50 thousand results. There's quite a lot we probably need to do on the books again. Now, you can search and all or under books. I tend to search and books when I'm looking for my title subtitle. These Kate coming up book for toddlers or Beach book for toddlers. They keep coming up as what the main popular search words are that customers are looking at all. We'd probably stick with those words if I was doing that. And you can also have a look at other titles to see what they're using. Its peak, the beach, ocean. Daniel's day at the beach first summer, dark and goose go the beach. Beach, die beach. Just make sure you include the word beach. If that's what customers are searching for, for your particular book. Or might be to do with the zoo, might be to do with the jungle mop, be to do with first airplane trip, whatever it is, just make sure you include those words in your title or your subtitle. 19. Mid Course Review Checklist: At this point of the course, I always like to just stop and just make sure that you're taking action. And we've got some direction in what we're doing is part of this course. Firstly, have you defined your purpose yet about what your book is going to be a bat? Have you completed, you'll research on a potential book topic. If you haven't, might be posed the course this point in time and go and do those first couple of steps. A lot of people that go through the whole course becomes a bit overwhelming and not sure where to start. That's why I like to pause midwives through cost just to make sure you are taking action. Some of the steps. Number Three, started to create your book structure and the format and how that book is gonna look. Convinced writing your manuscript and story, which is a big, big component of this whole process. He's getting that story right. And the last one is creating know total annual subtitle. These are the things that It's really important to start to focus on now before moving forward. So you can get these elements rot. And as you watch the next lessons, you can name start to implement them when we creating your books. Please make sure you do. You stop and pause, take action on the things that I've already been showing you in the previous lessons. And therefore, you've kept that is ready to go and you can start to implement them as a teaching new things along this course. 20. Section 4 Introduction - Format and Structure: Welcome to section for weight going to be covering a number of different lessons for formatting and structuring of your book. Now the format and structure of your book will start to play a big part in the development of that. In the next few lessons, we're gonna be looking at the Con, a book you wish to create. It might be a type of back, a hardback, and a book or all three. With that decision, you will need to decide on the size of your book. We'll look at the different options you have in the sizes that cardiac pay Amazon offer and also Ingram spark. And then we're gonna be looking at the blade or no bleed in the formatting and structuring of your book as well. So blade, blade and how that impacts your file top and what you need to submit through when you're getting your book published. So there'll be a few things that we're covering in section four of the course. 21. Choosing the Type of Book: Welcome to this lesson. We're looking at choosing the top of book that you want to create is it can be a hardback, a pipe it back, or in a book, or it could be all three. Now there's no reason why you can't choose all three. But it depends on the kind of book that you were creating. Of course, if it is activity book with children Monterey to be coloring in or drawing something, then enable he's not gonna be an option for you. But if you want to create a pitcher storybook and the format of your book, he's gonna be fine for a book, then you can create that as well. Now let's have a look at the different options at some other publishes creating. Now there are some that we as cell publishes can't create under the platform at this point in time on Amazon or Ingram Spark, which is the other magic global distributor. You can't choose like a board book, which is one of those really hard, thick book. So you see that children sometimes have, you can't have books where they might be different patterns on the front cover that mod include things that pop out. For example, might be a book width. If you push a button, the fire engine sounds on the truck. And as you flip through, you can change the sound. So I sort of books, uh, generally done by major publishes and I'd got different ways of being able to do that and sell them. But our opportunity is self-published as heat. That's the thing that you're wanting to do is the back of the book or the apricot option. Let me hop onto Amazon. I'll show you some of the options that currently authors have to choose from. And then you can decide whether that format is going to be suitable for your children's storybook and what the format is that's gonna be best for your customer as well. When we on the Amazon dashboard or the caddy pay dashboard. Again, I'll show you this in a future lesson about how to get your account and how to have these dashboard ready to go. You are provided with a button here that says Create. Now when we push Create, this will then give us an option of whether we want to do Kindle e-book, paperback or hardcover. And so these are the three options that we can choose from. And we can choose all three if we want to adjust depends with hard kava currently pay offer approximately five different sizes. And I'll cover that in a moment. With paper back. There are a number of different sizes that we can choose from and a book. Then we use Kindle, preview up or create up to create our e-book for that kind of format. And again, I'll show you that process in one of the future lessons. These are the three different options that we do have. As mentioned, you can choose all three, but it depends on the kind of book that you have. But let's just go onto Amazon. And if we have a look at books again for toddlers, so I'm gonna go to my total depth h. We have a look at the different sizes that we've got here. So this one, if we hover over it, this is an eye, 0.25 by 0.25. This looks like a similar size, 9.757 plus 7.75. This one here is a non-point for four by 12. These ones I naught 0.57.60.7. So there's a few different varieties of books sizes. I tend to like the eye 0.25 or night by ICT. Let me show you an example of what one of those books sizes looks like or gone grab a book for my catalog or more book library right now. So this is i 0.25.8.25 size. That will sort of give you a bit of an idea. According to the psoas my hands, how big that is. You can also choose a book that might be more of a rectangle size. O grab one of those and show you as well. And so this is like a seven inch, seven by nine inch. So that's another option you can choose from as well. There's a few different ones, but let me show you the different sources that we have to choose from. But we'll be looking at the actual sizing of a book in a future lesson. So on KD pay DC's the TVA options or what they call trim size as you have. We can look through these. I'll be covering more often this in a future lesson. But let's have a quick look at providing a random bat, 15 In different options and then hardcover trim size, these five different options at this point in time we can choose from. And then Ingram Spark, which is the other major distributed they'll talk about. You have very similar sizes that you can choose from a slave. That I do an IPO, 0.5 by 0.5, but I don't do an eye 0.25. So that could be a consideration as well when you're creating a book, if you don't want to have to re-size things, maybe just stick with the one size you can use for both ADP and Ingram spot. But the sorry, this book here, that book there is a seven by ten each book. So that's a book that you can choose from. So these are the different sizes. I'll go into more depth in a future lesson, but let's have a little bit more of a quick glance at what other author or authors are choosing for the options for the book creation. If you'd like to have a look here, we've got a paperback book and a Kindle book. This one here is a paperback kindle and hard kava. This one here is a paperback hard kava, a board book which we don't have an option of at this point in time on Amazon cardiac pain. You generally say that these are by major publishes. Then we scroll down and before pipe it back Kindle. Another one is a paperback kindle hard cava. These are just some options for consideration that you might want to look at. It. 22. Choosing the Trim Size of Your Book: Welcome to this lesson about choosing the trim size for your book. So the trim size is actual size that your cover is going to be for the front and back when you're choosing a trim size, as I've mentioned in a previous lesson, about changing the rod size, it's going to be perfect for your customer. Is it gonna be a customer that is a young child and lots of big a book. Therefore, the illustrations can be put in there nice and big and bold, or it doesn't need to be bit smaller. There are different sizes we can choose from in both Amazon card API and Ingram Spock. Are we talking about more about Ingram spark lighter in the course? But for the moment, let's have a look at both platforms and the trim sizes that both offer when you're uploading your book. These little list of trim sources we have to choose from, followed by, followed by ICT from previous book or developed. It's only a quarter a small little book that's a fought by its size. Typically a six by nine is what a lot of longer form high content book. Authors or publishes choose. A sudden bought tin is about this size, so it's a little bit bigger. Then if we are looking at, even if we go all the way down to a 9.5 by 11, that is quantum much bigger book that probably most exercise or activity books have. Then if you're looking at children Size book other night 0.25 or 9.5. These options just here, it's approximately what we saw is just here. Just a few examples of the sizes that you get to choose from. Now, HOD kava is relatively new to pay at the time of filming this course. So Diane, the Alpha, four different book sauces. That's where it's hard. If you want to credit hard kappa under KD p, then it is difficult unless you choose one of these sauces. But the option I tend to choose when doing a hard kava is to use Ingram Spock. So I'll go to Ingram spark in a moment and show you the trim saws as diaper meat. But just know that these are the sizes that you can choose from ADP. And you've got the black and white PIPA, black pipe, black ink and Crane PIPA, standard color a wallpaper. So when we're doing a children's book, we need to consider the color that we're using because Kayla does actually cost more for printing as well. That's a consideration you need to think about. And you've also got premium, Kayla. And you'd have a standard choice or the premium, I tend to get premium artist wanted beta customer experience. And it can do the same with the heart exercises as well. But let's go to the options of alpha Ingram Spark. We've got the ink quality. So again, I've got Standard and Premium color printing. They look, they don't show you that the side or the printed paper is done on 74 j is same. And this one has more high-quality pipe, it's used. If we go down here, we've got the book cover options, pipe black or hardcover. You've got the front cover, a net gloss cover. I haven't done a digital cloth before. You've booked up the book bonding, which is perfect band, which is this kind of bond, which is just, just thought that then he got nice laminate, which is the hard cover and a jacket case, which is more organized for high content books. And then if we look at the different trim sizes are available. So they've actually got all the way down or four by six, which is very, very small. If we look that got the typical size of a six by 97 by ten. And dicot The we've got an iPad or an 8.5 by 8.5. So if we go to Amazon, they caught the eye 0.55.5 as well. The iodine Ingram don't have an eye 0.25 by 8.25, which is typically this was sauce here. So that's what you need to think about, is if you're looking at putting your pipe it back on the boat, Amazon card, a PE and Ingram Spock, then the eye 0.5 by 8.5 would probably be a better option just because you've done it didn't need to reformat the front cover and the manuscript of fit two different platforms. What our modern up doing for my book is choosing the eye 0.55.5. Because therefore I can load them that sign manuscripts and front cover to both platforms without having to adjust to anything at all. And then I can create by kindle a book separately. Then you can do calculators as well about how much it's gonna cost. Thinking through the color options that you might want to choose, either the standard or premium. And when we apply that book, OPR, show you the different processing that occurs when you choose other black and white or color blending premium or standard as well. But these are just some considerations for the Zazi book checkout. Other books, find out what sizes they are using. And then you need to choose the size. It's gonna be brought few audience. 23. Bleed or No Bleed For Your Interiors: Welcome to this lesson. We are going to be talking about something that some people get a bit confused about, about blade or no bleed. In this lesson, I'm going to give you a practical example of when you may or may not use bleed for your interiors. Now, I do. I will mention this during the lesson, but it doesn't have anything to do with your cover. It's your manuscripts or your internal manuscript. When we looking at adding blade or no played, there is a calculation that we need to add. Let me show you that. When we're uploading a book to Amazon card API, it'll give you the option of either choosing no bleed or delayed in PDF format. When we're adding the bleed, we need to actually add 0.125 inches to the width and 0.25 inches to the heart of our manuscripts. Now remember that only applies to our manuscript, not air cover's. So let me show you a practical example by using Canva. And I'll be going into some more depth of that camera in front and back cover designs and interior designs laid out. But let me just show you a practical example of how that might work. Normally when you're doing your interiors, you would do 8.5 by 11. But because we need to add the extra 0.125 to the width and 0.25 to the height. We need to do it in this section, section here. What we would do that would now become 8.625 because we've added the 0.125 to the width and this would become 11.25 inches. They weren't We do is create new design that will actually now be sized to the width and the height. When would we use our bleed as part of our interiors? Will just say you had a flower that you created. And we want change the color H02, I blew. Then if you wanted that illustration to go pass that inline, you would use bleed. Because what you'd find, if you didn't have the blade that was just to 0.5 by 11. I'll show you what you could potentially have if we had just gonna get a shape for you. I decided to put this long here. If it was a normal eye, 0.5 by 11, we'll make this white. That's what will end up looking a lot. When we have bleed. Effectively, what it's doing is allowing that to be crossed over that line there. If you had, let's give you an example. So if it's like this, and we wanted this illustration to go over the top without having something like this. If it was watt, this is traditionally what it would look like. If he printed it just with that blade, you'd have a watt trim line that would run around and would finish like that. That's when you would use blade if you wanted to ensure that your illustrations when all the way across and you didn't have a watt line that ran around it. So that's an odd around publishing with blade or no bleed. Remember it's an option for you when you're uploading your manuscript to callee pain. And it only applies to the interior. You don't need to do Blade two covers for example. And it's easy to organize with the sizing on Canvas if you're using camera as well. Hopefully this has helped you in regards to when you use blade, what he's blade, and the actual measurements of adding an extra 0.125 to the width and 0.25 inches to your heart. When you're organizing the interior sizes when you first start your creation. 24. Section 5 Introduction - The Design: Welcome to section number five. This is an exciting section because we start to bring together many of the elements that bring a book Alive. So let me show you what we're going to be covering in this section. That's dying is quantum depth. But it's important that you get to know these sections. Firstly, we're going to look at Canva up and how I use Canada design my books came up is a software program that you can use online. It's all the fray or pied, and there's no reason why you can't just use the free version, but I'll show you the pros and cons of why, why you shouldn't choose that option, the X1, with doing talking about illustrations and images, you might choose to add source your images or your illustrations. You may also choose to do them yourself. We talked through the pros and cons in that as well. Next one, we're looking at creating your front cover. We can either then we'll look at cranial back cover with Canada as well. Then we need to have a look at how to create our pipette back, back and add a books. Next one is formatting your books correctly so that they are suitable for upload. We're creating our interior using Kanban, writing your descriptions, and then being published ready. So what other things are the elements you need to have together to have your book ready to be published on a platform like Amazon, kVp, or even Ingram spot. So let's get into section of a five with the first lesson. 25. An introduction to Canva: In this lesson, I'm going to introduce you to the platform of Canva. Canva has been a tool that I've used for a couple of years and it is paying fantastic. I initially started for about three or four months using the free version and then I'll upgrade to the pro version. And not just gave me so many more options that I could then use to scale up my books, to sell more and to get better graphics and images. And this quite a few other things that you can actually do on the pro version that you are limited to with the basic free version. But let me take you into the platform of Canada. Show you a few of the tools, specifically focusing on those we're gonna be using for our book creation. And namely how to do our book covers and our manuscript seizing Canada. It's just basically an introduction. Then when I do go into the lessons of back cover design and a bad interior design, I can go a little bit more into depth about how this software of Canada will really help you. So let's get on to that now. Firstly, you can just go to canva.com and you can create an account by just going to sign up. It'll ask for some basic details. Then once you've signed up, you can then log in and you can start accessing Canada. And I'm going to get onto my account now and show you some of the features. Now logged into my account. What I'll do is just show you a couple of simple things you can do. You can use a search bar up here to look for templates and things. So if you write children's book, click there. And then it'll show you a number different templates locked to use. You can do the different styles. So many different things you can do as part of your children's book. We're using Canva. Now, one of the other things you can do is go straight to creating a design. We can have a bit of a look around on the different features and things like that as well. But let's go to credit design to begin with. We can do a custom design, these different things here. But we're going to do an IPO 0.5 by 8.5 inch because that's the source of the book that I wanted to use. But what we need to do here is make sure we're using Nietzsche's 0.5.5. And we can go create a new design. Then this will bring up the size of whether it's gonna be more cover or whether it's gonna be my manuscript. Now, if it's your manuscript, innate, think through your blade or no bleed, which are covered in a previous lesson. But at this point in time, on just gonna be using this for the front cover, just to illustrate a name. When we do the lesson on the manuscript, open at the blade and show you how driven measurements then. But on Canva up, what you can do is actually look at the different elements that we can use this uploads, There's different ticks that we can use. Backgrounds that we can also choose from. You can search the templates. And if we want to say add some text, I'll show you how to do that by simply clicking on text. It's different stores you can choose, or you might have a heading, the heading, and you can change this up. So if we just did, then you can actually choose a number different font types. These ones you can apply yourself sick and upload a font as long as you've got commercial use of that font, you might want to use one that's already there. So let's just use one of these for example, and we can move it. The other things you can do is click here. You can position it so I can center it. You can put it in the middle. These are all different features that you could spend hours on learning. What I really wanted to do is just show you how easy cave at least to use. So you've got your main templates. If you wanted to say look up beach. They needs could be something you could use fuel kid's book as well. What you need to make sure you do though, is change up the elements or the rotting and things like that that you're using. Because you yes, you can use Canva for commercial use purposes. However, you need to make sure you change things up. You can't just use, say, let's just choose one. Can't just choose, this, will just go replace count. You can't just use that and then uses your front cover. You need to change elements up. You could, for example, let's go to this one. You can change this around. So you might want to have. This up. Sorry, these are the current actually rot on these ones. These are actually just move on once not having to do that with this one, that one you can write. These ones I think he can just get rid of. But there's different elements that you can use and you can get into the inspiration by each of these as well. So we might go to this one. And once it loads up, we can click on different elements. So those, those can move around like that. Like the word party, but you don't really like how that one is done. So you could then copy it anymore. I want to have stretch it across. We can make it smaller. And you might want to move the hats, this thongs, you can move items around. Two umbrellas might be too much for you. You might want to move those. The modern want these ones here. You can send it. You can change things around, you can add pages. We start doing that when we're doing the manuscripts, but when we're doing just a front cover, we don't do that, which I will show you I run. Then you can go to elements and you can draw out what you want here. If you just leave pitch, then you can choose from photos, it can choose graphics. And you can use these within your book. These atoms here. Now there are ones here, the couch, easy if you don't have the prior version. So for 82 filter and we did just the free, then we plot the filters. These are all the ones you can use for free. And if you wanted to filter it, so you've got pro and we get rid of that. Then these are all the extra ones you can use for protein. You can see a little crown that then hire lots. It's something you need to have that provision. If we had something like this, we moved that down there. We can get rid of this routing here. Want to get rid of the hat, could get rid of the umbrella. Get rid of thongs. Can start to create your little while your book, your front cover of your book. And it's just really easy to use. With uploads. You can go to upload unique and upload any of your own photos, any of your own images. And I'll be showing you that when we're creating my Olin textbook, you might want to add INFJ, the chairs there as well. This is really good things. You can use. Backgrounds, you can do different designs. So you might want to right-click here. And you can find different pitch, photos, backgrounds, and the Y that you can use camera effectively. These by also in the pro version, you can re-size it. So this is an excellent phage that are found with a prior version. If I want to change these to an EIP 0.25 inch rather than the eye 0.5 inch. Because I'm creating it. You can copy and re-size this or chromic, come up with a new tab and now it's already done. Whereas with the free version, you can't do that. You need to go and redo the whole thing and move all the elements and get it to where you want to be more fiddly. And that's why a lot the pro version. But this is just a quick introduction to Canva. You can change all your different fonts, hops around. You can use ones that got preloaded. You can use ones that you've uploaded yourself. These functions with the boat and you can do a fix. We can have now fixed, so we can do a shadow. You can change the colors of the shadow. You can broaden it, we can offset it. You might want to have. Let's change this back to this one. And we got to fix. And then we can increase the transparency offset. You can change, you can see how it's changed over time, the direction of it. We can even make it into a blurred. You can change these, make them hollow, neon knots and brought backgrounds, different curves you can do as well. It could, could show you for three hours the different functions of kava, but it was more just an introduction to show you what some of the simple features are that I'll be showing you what I'm doing, the manuscript and the front and back covers for Canada. So hopefully this helps just to give you a bit of an idea of what you can and can't do with all these things. It's quite incredible the different options you have available, even under the free version, there are so many things you can choose from. Hopefully that helps you with an introduction to Canada. 26. Illustrations and Images: Welcome to this lesson. We're going to be covering off images and illustrations and different options that you have for your book when you're creating it. Now, images and illustrations, There's a few things we need to cover in regards to the commercial licensing of the use of these images. And you need to be very careful what images you use. Because what you don't want is to be using images that aren't for commercial use. And that could compromise your book, the Future styles, and it could even be pursued legally if you don't have permission to use images. So let me go through the options for you. And we're going to be starting with a few different websites that you can use to get commercial free images for your books. Then what we'll do is cover the option you have for illustrations and what I personally do. So let me go into the websites that you can use to our source different images for your book. I want to show you four websites that you can use for the commercial use of images. And these websites in no particular order. But I think that these websites will help you. There are some images there that it could be great to use in your books. The hardest challenge you have will be to get images that you can have flow through your entire book. Because you can't just pick one image and have that at the beginning. You might need to have similar images that flow through. And that's where getting someone to create your illustrations might be the way to go. But if you do want to use commercial use images for free, then let me show you these websites. These are the four sites we're going to have a quick look through. One's pixabay.com, then unsplash.com, Victor asi.com, and canva.com. So let's go to pixabay.com. What we need to do is make sure that you're checking, that you do have the right to use them. So what we do, we can check here and when guy then the illustrations, which is usually what we want or vector graphics. So let's go to, we'll just go to images. If we just go. Umbrella. Couldn't find any matches that are exactly what we wanted. But we can actually see that these are photos that we can use. We can go back, Let's choose Illustrations. Beach. Then this will provide different illustrations that we can see that using in our, in our book. Now if we wanted, for example, to use this one, if we click on that one, then you can look at the loss and seeing free for commercial use, no attribution required. So you can have a look at the loss since here by clicking on it. And it will go through what content you can use and what's not allowed to use as well. Don't sell unaltered copies of content. And you don't want to have exact matches and things like that. So always check that you have the commercial license for any of these websites that you want to or pitches that you wanted to use. And all you need to do is click on Free Download, click that and that will give you either a JPEG or PNG file. You can also choose for the victor images as well. You can have a look at these different images too. If we go back. If we just did say playground, we got illustrations, then you can see all these illustrations again are available. If we saw a book, sorry, if we saw I picture, lock this one. We click on it again, free for commercial use, no attribution required. That's what we want to make sure that we're getting. Just need to make sure you're checking all of these things when you're going to these images. So let's go back to the next one. Let's go to unsplash.com. Here we go. On this one again, just check to make sure you can use these images. So if we go here and what's this guy? Beach again. We'll just keep a common theme so we can see most of these ones tend to be photos. Unless you actually rot in here, Fitch. Let's strike. Then you can get some ones that might be cartoons or illustrations, but this one tends to be more of photos. So it's not as good for picture storybooks. I think the other ones that I'm showing you probably going to be better. But you might find that they read some images that you could potentially use. Remember, you just need to have ones that have a common theme. And again, it'd be able to be used throughout the book as well. Just make sure that you check any of the And illustrations for the commercial use and that you can actually use these ones as well. So let's get at least one. Let's go to Victor easy.com. Now we evict easy. You do have the opportunity to use the free images for 50. To sell 50 items. Once you exceed that 50, then you do need to go ahead and purchase a loss in switch spent 120 US dollars per year. But if you're selling 50, then it's worth that investment to get that loss since to use that image more often. And then you can choose many, many other images as well. It can choose here, you can go to photos or videos or victors. And if we did if we did beach umbrella and we can go here and it brings up a whole heap of images. You can see where it says free. I can choose these ones. You can go across here and choose the free Lawson's. Or we can choose a pro. So this will give you the free images on victor easy. Now if you wanted to upgrade and guarded the pro loss and then this will offer more options like it would be Canva pro. So you can scroll down here. If we went to an image like this one here, click on it. Free download. Attribution is required. So that's where you need to, to contribute something for the use of an image. Free loss. Since what's this? So we go there and it will show you what the free loss since what that allows. If we go back here and we go attribution required, It's where you need to copy this link and then include that in your, at the back-end of your book to say we received that image, you knit modern need to have a section at the back where you are providing attribution for the use of those images. You don't have to pay money for them, but you need to show where you got them from. So it's at least at the back of the book with all of those sites where you're getting them. Now, you can have the entire law library if you go to the pro version. That will that will provide that evening the information that you can do, the free download through Victor ASI. That's another one. And if we go back here, so done picks up by Unsplash thick Daisy and Canva. Canva is my favorite. So if we go to cave up and we would just create image credit design. Now let's go to the customers on that Cisco and 0.25 by 0.25. Then we've got our L and we got to elements. And if you've got the pro version, you can use any of these. If you had the free version, then you're obviously limited to what you can do. So if we do and you can filter, so if you had the pro version, you can do the free world Pro. We're just going to leave it at both the moment. So if we scroll down and you can see how it's got that little crown. That means that that's for the pro version only. But if you click on this little ellipsis, then you can say where you can use the image for free. What's allowed? Media sites use this media cyclin camera design for personal or commercial use. You can use these in marketing or social media. Don't sell or distribute or take credit for unaltered media provided through Canada. And he can't trademark the designs. We stuck media. If you want to learn more, you can go about into this link here. And it talks about in depth Canvas loss and seen, explained, talks about the differences in the free and pro version. Pro content loss since what that allows, what's the LAD using content in your designs, trademarks, and logos. It's really, it's highly recommended that she go through the process of writing this information so your crystal-clear on what you can and what she can't use on Canva. But that's why a lot Canada and most particularly when you get the pro version, because you just have free rein to be able to and choose all these images and use them. And then even if you go into templates and rot, you found something on here, then you can individually using images that are on here. So this one, you can grab that and use it. You can use the girl here, you can use the hat if you want to change it up. And you thought there was an element in here that you wanted to use, such as here, you want to use a clock, then you can just copy that and move it to your Pokhara or your internal pages. And that's the great thing unlock a lot of that came out. You can continue to do that. As I mentioned, my preferences to get an illustrator to create my images, which we're gonna go into in a moment in your new lesson. But if you working on using images from Canada or any of these others for your books, then you know how, you know where the exercise images and you know where you should be checking. And if you go to say, picks up by, sorry, go back a bit. If we go to or even vector, easy, if you go back to the website. So let's go back here. We'll just wait for it to load for you. Scroll down. You can even see the loss and seeing agreement just tier. You can check out what is involved and what you need to be careful of as well. And this is provided with updated information, has got frequently asked questions to make sure you check that out. 27. Outsourcing Your Illustrator: Welcome to this lesson about outsourcing illustrations. Now this might be listening can just skip straight through because you might be great artist itself and can design and do your own illustrations. But for someone like me who doesn't have any ability to draw on needed to outsource my illustrations. And it took a little bit of time to get someone that I could trust. They could take the concepts that are head and design them or draw them and bring those to life and to reality so that I could put them in my books. Now, I did use a few different platforms to do my research and find someone or a couple of different illustrators that could actually do these tasks for me. And what I'll do is I'll show you three different platforms that I've used previously, that it actually really helped to source a artist that can do these for me. So let's get into these three different platforms. And I'm gonna show you the process that I did to try and find the right person for my books. The first salt we're going to look at is Fiverr. If you haven't heard about father before or a mini, these different platforms, they've freelancers that create, or they can help you by creating what they call a gig. And that starts at five US dollars and increases. And you can then really try and refine the kind of person that you are wanting to engage for your work. Now might not just be illustrations and might be formatting, or might be other things that you would like to get done. Pretty much this can think of it. There's someone who's happy to do that work for you. So what I would do, recommend you do is do some research across a few different people that if you're wanting to look at your illustrations, then I would simply go to book illustrator. And what do you do is do your search. Then this will bring up all the different options that you do have naked do filters as well. So you can sort by relevance, you can solve by best-selling. You can sort by budget. So you might have a budget if say, let's say $200 to 300 volts. And apply. What you can do is start to look at different illustrators and what they might offer you. What I tend to do is look at the illustrations to find out if there is a kind of illustration that I think would sit well with my children's book. You want, might want more of a hand-drawn book or a more of a sort of a painting, sort of one. So let's look at this one. So I'll create children's storybook illustration. You click on that one. And then you can actually go and see what the different illustrations look like. This one's quite really see, it's quite nice actually the way that these artists is completed, these, these are more sharper illustrations that's using the watercolor. Because as you can see, these artists has a numbered or a good range of illustrations that they can complete for you. So it just depends on what you're looking for. Now, what you do is look over the different things that are part of the gig. And it will provide this. So if you are happy with EC, just push Continue. And if you want to, you can go the basic package. So that's one picture. You've got a standard, It's got two illustrations or premium, that's five illustrations or figures. And you always look at the different fit or the feedback that's coming through because you need to find out what that feedbacks like. We stay responsive, whether they provide the complex illustrations that you needed. You just have a look through that sort of thing. Now, this will provide you with the packages are available. So you generally have a basic standard and premium. And it'll tick the box of what you will receive as part of that. I have a good look through that. Let's go back and have another look at an option that we might choose. Scroll down here. Let's go. Let's try this one. And we'll see if they provided much more successful. You'll striations here for coloring books as well. Have a look down. I didn't provide as many illustrations is what all would normally look for. I probably wouldn't go for that one. So Kate going down and I always try and do a bit of a combination of reviews and the illustrations and whether they're standing out to me. You can also do just here. Just to illustrate that or children bookstore book illustration. And have a look and see if there's anything that comes up that you think would be good. Is it same as we saw before? I keep going down. This one looks pretty good. It starts at $28. They sometimes are artists that I just getting into father who have more cheaper right. To try and get the truck or trying to get traction and get reviews happening. They always worth having looked at as well. So this person just had the one 5-star beta Min distance is Simba. These are different packages that are available. Just had the 11. So this might be someone that is looking to, it gets some more work and they might really happy to work with you. Obviously they can very talented with what they do. You can look at this standard packages and the premium. That's what I do with father and I have found one of them are based illustrate, this was Illustrator on Father Dave. That's how I initially got her to do my illustration. She's currently not on farther. She's doing her own thing, but I've kept in contact with her and I do engage her for future illustrations that I have done. But she was initially part of father. Use that opportunity to engage her for two books and then I'll use her for other books as well. There are some excellent artists, excellent opportunities here. And the reason I'll lock father is because you can then do you sort on based on your budget, delivery time. You can do it online, sellers as well. So if you want someone in your own country, you can do that as well. So all we need to do is join and fill in some basic details. Then you can start to search through all of these options. And you can do different searches as well. They might be default ones that you'd like to do search for might be to do with Amazon kVp illustrations. It could be just illustrations. It could be a hand-drawn illustrations, all those sorts of things you can use. That's farther. Let's go to the next one which is Freelancer.com. This is Freelancer.com. Again, you can get freelancers for a range of different jobs. You can get them to do illustrations, formatting, conversions for different formats, all those sorts of things. You can engage it in a lot of different ways. You can actually set up projects. So you can set up a project and you can get a number of different illustrators is sent through an example and then you choose which one you want. We can just set up the one so you can look through how it all works as well and get some further information about freelancer. But you can go browse jobs as well. And you can do illustrate. This is also for people that are searching for jobs too. You can post a job or you can search for jobs. Coming up with a moment. But let me show you some of the other things you can do on freelance out once you've actually signed up and logged in as well. What you can do on freelance is posted a project. That's where you can create the 90 projects. So it might be kids. Illustrations. For Bache book for example. You tell about the project, you upload a few different things. E1 illustrated. What you can do is post that project and Daniel has at least of 25 to 30 different people that come back to you decided this is my cost is walk and do the small portfolio. It is a good way to get a number of different freelancers come to you. I posted a job back in 2020 and to create some slides that I was doing. And I wanted some illustrations to accompany those slides. And those artists that I reached out to or that are engaged through freelancer. And I'll show you the quality of some of those illustrations that these artists sent through. So let me bring them up. Now. This is one just here. Let's go to the next one. Was told him that a balanced diet. Do with the Success Academy. You can see the artist did an excellent job at bringing to life what I wanted. That was one of my favorite ones. You can see the fantastic it was to do the law of graduate. These are the kinds of things you can get your freelance to create. And they have some very, very good illustrators that part of this network. As I said, you can create a number of different things. You can create a project. You could actually sit a limit. So you can say I want ten illustrations completed for 200 US dollar. And you can even if someone to submit through an example of what the illustrations a lot. So you get an opportunity to see that and use the service that way. Let's Freelancer.com have a good look around. It would take me an hour to show you all around the platform. But there are a lot of different options you can choose with Fatah, you pi upfront for the service and then once it's done, you approve it and that money. So it is the pie and it's the on-hold with father and then it is released. With freelancer though, you don't necessarily have to pi upfront. You can wait for the work and you can create. I hope one more thing. You can have an amount that sits I a 100 US dollars once father illustrations or down, and then it is released after that period of time. And you can sit $250 after 20 illustrations are done in the new release, that sounds like a part project, a math that he's released as things are completed. Suddenly not having to spend all that money, all the ones at the end, you can get that freelance, you can give that freelance is some money as I, as I progress through the project, which helps them with their cashflow and also can help your cash-flows. Well, let's go to the last one which is Upwork, and we'll have a quick look at that as a platform to this is upwork.com very similar to Father and freelancer in a few ways. Or you need to do is do your search so you can sit projects. You can look for different talents. Let's do book, strike and then search. This will show you what the alley right is, what the success rate is. Gives you a little bit of a look at the portfolio. You can sit different budgets. You can do for free lunches and agencies or just freelancers are just agencies. You can have. There's a lot of different categories you can search for as well. And it will also show you what different skills they have to and with a top rated and how they perform. So if we clicked on this, oh sorry. These illustrate all this does on a rod hill here. It will show you the alley, right? And it'll also talk through the different jobs that are in progress. That's something you need to keep in mind as well. If you're searching for illustrators, think about the time that the turnaround time that you named your book as well. If you're happy to wipe that spawned it has got, if I've got a few jobs in progress, but if you need it quite immediately, just keep that in mind. We have a look down here. They're all range of different illustrators. So you might find something that he's going to suit the candidate illustrations you want. If you have two more of your futuristic book, then that might be the way to go. If you want more of a traditional book, then let's have a look at this one here. I have a ray through their information and what they offer and also view their previous work or the profile as well. And that also helps. We have looked at the portfolio. Let's have a release. Need to sign in to do that. But these are things that you need to look over the reviews and this illustrated here obviously has an excellent history of providing exceptional work. Marina v. Remember that one if you want to look at upwork.com. This one, I'll actually show you the different work that they've got to keep working down and having a look at the different work that they offer. Obviously very talented as well. Have a look through and see all of that work is upwork.com. So we've got our father, father.com, freelancer.com, upwork.com. I'm going to use five actually, I might use Freelancer.com and ongoing to source and illustrator. And I'm gonna get some illustrations completed for my beach book. So I'm going to complete the manuscript then ongoing to go to Freelancer.com. And I'm gonna read chat to a previous Illustrator that's done some work for me before. And I'm going to set that up. It will probably cost me maybe 400 US dose to get bad eye-catching illustrations completed. I'm going to sit that project for my illustrator. I get him to do that work. And then I will show you the progress of those illustrations. And now I can show you the quality work that you can get through Freelancer.com as well. That's it for the illustrations and add sourcing illustrations. You might have another platform you might want to try, but I do recommend other trialing father.com, freelancer.com, or upwork.com. If you need to add associate illustrations, just make sure that you had a commercial use rots or those illustrations when you're engaging your illustrator that were part of the ticket box scenario as well when you're looking through down here as well, Where is it? To have a look here? Usually on the on the conditions it will have. You have the commercial use of those illustrations. When you engage someone, look farther, you actually own all of that work once it's completed, not the illustrator themselves. Hopefully we'll let helps and make sure you do your homework to get the right Illustrator test a few at, if you need to do that, because it's worthwhile just doing your homework to get the right Illustrator first before you engage in for illustrations, get them to try one to begin with. And if you lock they work, then engaged in the remainder of those illustrations that you've got that you need to get done. 28. Creating an Illustrator Outline: What I wanted to do in this lesson is to provide you with a quick look at what I provide my illustrators when they creating illustrations for more manuscripts. Just needs to be a basic outline of what you want for each of your illustrations. Let me show you what I gave to my illustrators. So it makes the job so much easier and it brings to life what is in my mind onto paper. And so I can include that in my books. If all is providing the outline and it was the oriented book. So I'd had the night saying plays night throughout the illustrations, I wanted to highlight the importance, some protection when they had the beach and want to ensure all family including tidier, wearing a broad brimmed hat and a top to protect their skin. So what I do is I get them, I'll give my Illustrator what the manuscript wording is from a book. So grab your sand Bucket, yell Daddy from the door. We're off to the beach to enjoy the foreshore. Then outside. Number one illustration, dead standing the CAD or categories open, strapping his surfboard on the roof racks of the car is appropriate head-on, a single top, sunglasses and B8 shorts, Laney up against the back of the caries or large beach umbrella. And on the ground is a picnic basket. He's in the driveway of their home and there are some noss, green trees in the background. He's a big smile on his face. That would be illustration number one. And then what I'll do is say that the second section is now illustration required for this writing. Then Number two, illustration or GYN or provide the writing so they apply the sun cream that cavities skin on the United States checks none of the chin. Always Watson cream that he's applied to. He's nice and he's always on one knee and he's leaning forward and he's placing the Watson cream to take his nose. Td is a small beach towel that he has a randy shoulders. Ali's in his swimming costume to beside all the entities ascend back in spite. To give you a little bit of eye looking to what my illustrators actually started to do based on this information, is I'll provide you an illustration of a one. Illustration number two, to show you following my description what he has been created. So this is illustration number one. It was dead exotic with the surfboard umbrella is resting up against the back of the car and about to head off to the beach. And illustration number two was TD getting a sun cream applied to his nose by Ali. And they got the sand Bucket and this byte ready to go. So the illustrator has brought to life what I wanted. And that's the importance of making sure that when you do write out what your illustrators to draw, that you do nice and clearly, and they are out to bring that concept to laws. That's how I do my concept with the drawings and for my Illustrator. And I'll make sure that it's nice and clear what they are doing and when an illustration isn't required and whether these, and I'm going to continue to do that for the Illustrator. They are very, very clear on what my expectations are. And if any changes need to be made, then we can do that as we go along as well. So that's just an example of what are provided and I'll do that for the rest of my book. For the beach adventure. 29. Progress by my illustrator for the book: In this lesson, I wanted to cover off a few real life examples of the progress that I'm having with my current Illustrator. Because I think it's important that you get an idea of the expense, the time frame involved. If you are outsourcing your Illustrator to get your illustrations right through your book. Now the process can take a bit of time depending on how many projects your illustrator already be working on. So you might be third in line, or you might actually have two white, a number of months before the project can actually commence. For me, I've got a great relationship with one of my illustrators that hey, actually gets going on my illustrations within a bad awake or two from when our submit through more requirements from our books, just depends on the work that they've currently got on. And therefore, you've also got to work out your budget and how that all works. For illustrations for my books, they usually cost just under a thousand US dollars. But that is inclusive of the time involved, all illustrations. And it does, it does take a fair bit of time for them to cry these illustrations. And it depends on how many as well. So for your book, the MOD need 40 illustrations, some of the more alienated ten illustrations, it just depends on the corner book that you're working on, how much you're willing to invest, and therefore, these old dictate the cost involved. Now, I've worked with different illustrators that have only costs 20 US dollars per illustration. Worked with some that it costs upwards of 50 to 60 US dollars per illustration. It just depends on what is involved with this illustration. How much work is going to be required by that? Illustrate them their experience of a new illustration. And they're wanting to get a few jobs up and going so they're willing to discount they work to get some good reviews. Well, they might be a highly experienced illustrator that charges a premium amount. It is up to you to determine your budget. And I've been able to utilize income from other books to be harder than use that money to reinvest back into NI books around creating. Therefore mod budget might be quite high, can pay to someone that starting out. Remember my initial budget when office started doing the Children's illustrated picture books was approximately 200 US dollar. And that covered a BAT. It there might be 15 illustrations. And then with more books that I've created that become a bit longer. And therefore not necessarily have a bigger budget to be able to kind of photos, illustrations. The current book that I'm working on as part of this course of God's think it might be illustrations. I'll just have to go and double-check that. But I will show you the progress of those illustrations and the time frame so far. Pain whiting for about a month for these illustrations to be completed. So it does take a bit of time, but I'm really, really happy with the progress. And it's only a couple of illustrations to go to finish off the project. And then I'll be ready to start creating my interior. But I thought it was important to show you the progress so that you understand how long it can take. And therefore, you need to know what the steps are to get your books illustrated as well. Let me show you a few of the illustrations that I've had completed. Now the next stage after this, we'll be utilizing those illustrations to then create the interior, which will form the upcoming lesson a back creating your interior using illustrations. Let me show you some of these illustrations now. This is the progress from my Illustrator. These are just a handful of the illustrations that I am getting done. As you can say, they're meeting my requirements, have nice fun, joyful, and colorful illustrations that are engaging for kids. And they illustrated as sticking by what Marr requirements were when I created my outline. And that's where it's important to create your outline. So you've got dad holding up nice and high and flying like a bird. You got Ollie intended that are running down the beach, really excited there on the wider the beach here. In this illustration, the damp all the rock pools checking out everything but making sure that I didn't touch anything dangerous. And in this one they're on the way to the beach and having lots of fun and seeing different songs about the *****. So these are some of the illustrations really happy with the progress. And the next part of the course will be actually using these illustrations to create the interior for Apple. 30. How to Design Your Front Cover: In this lesson, we're gonna be talking about creating your front cover. Now you may decide to add source. You'll cover design through groups like father or freelancer on Upwork. But for those of you that might get illustrations completed and then had the opportunity to create your own front cover. Using those illustrations. I'll be able to show you how to do that during this lesson. The amount you illustrate it up for my book has provided an illustration that I want to use for my front cover. You can use something similar or use your own illustration to create something that I'm gonna be doing by using the same steps. So let me jump onto Canada. And ongoing to use illustration that might illustrate is provided to do just that. This is the illustration that my Illustrator has provided. And I'm gonna try and turn this into a front cover. Now too, has some other illustrations that are could choose. But a lot to see if I can create this one into the front cover for the book. And I'm gonna be using an ICT 0.5 by 0.5 because that is a universal size I can use for both Ingram Spock and Amazon kVp. Let me upload this illustration to Canada. They now can start to create my front cover and you can use similar steps feel from cover. The first thing I need to do is go to custom design. Custom size. I'm going to use inches and I'm going to use the 0.50.5 inches. The InDesign here is more designed or the template that I'm gonna be using, because it is a front cover. Just going to leave it like that for the moment. Because what we do later on, if we're using Canva, we can bring both the front and back cover together into one PDF inside it. But for the moment we just want to create that from Kevin. So the next step you want to do is upload my illustration. What I'll do is go to Uploads. Then I click on upload media and bring that illustration up. I've done that now, I'll click on that. What I can do is right-click Set as background image. Now remember with your covers you don't need to laugh at any bleed or anything like that. You just need to make sure you get the pizza where you wanted to. You can also add a border, whatever you want to. Now the next step is to add the text. So we're going to just do sub hitting the intended net position. We just need to be mindful of. What I'll do is I'm gonna change this to, I think it's cool. Bold. Going to change this. Now. Water can also do a could put it across here. I'm just going to be, again careful where I place it, not to get into why of anything, any seagulls or anything like that. I need to change the color to a color that's gonna be brought. And it's going to stand out from our book. What I would normally do is use some different color combinations potentially. So this here is showing me what if I did that color? It's going to be signaled to the same. It's just going to blend in. So we don't want that. We might be able to pick up of a callus here. So we can get also have a look at base purple is not working. Watt. Possibly we've got the brand from *** as well. So if you want to check out what the keller that is each tick there, got a little dropout and you go down to the brand color. And then that will show up there as well. We just got to work out what color it's going to be. Now online, have a bit of a play around with this for a little bit, just to try and get the right color, might end up being black. And then I'll resume filming and I'll talk you through what I've done. I'm trying a few different things with the front cover. So I've got this option, but I've also got this option as well. When I zoom back out, It's always good to try and compare what might work. Both might look like is very hard to work out with this one. I had to add a little bit of blue in place. This I want to do is send to back. You can see a slot line across there which is not ideal. What we try to do is work out what cover is going to stand at the most. Now, this one's got wonderful colors in it. Some thinking on what stop with this and see how they might be. Some small adjustments are needed to MC. But this one works. The other thing I need to do is put my name on here as well. What we might do for illustration purposes, we might use this top one. What I might do is delete this and copy it up. It would not do a zoom it up a little bit. And I can do is reduce this up and put it down here. They're gonna put it down here as well. It can always have a little bit of a look Ronnie models a lot to include your illustrate this just depending on whether that is something that I are happy for you to put on there as well or give them credit. Some of them, some illustrators do lock that credit and acknowledgement of his would prefer just to leave it. I'm just going to leave this lattice for the moment. So what I did is I grabbed my illustration. So if I just add the page or to show you again, I went to upload. I uploaded my illustration. Then our right-clicked and said set images background. And we know that this image is the eye 0.5 by 0.5 inch for front cover. You can play around with your front cover as well. Now what you could also try and do if you go to templates, might find some different rotting stalls that might work for you as well. Let's just say this routing here, it looks quite good. If I get that gap here, we might rot. We want to actually reduce it significantly and psoas, Let's just make it 30. We change it to black. We might think that that routing is better than the other one. I don't think so. These are things you just got to test. Just to check if the if activity a new one. So you go down here, Let's just get rid of this again by just a tasting few things. Let's have another quick look and safety is any other font hops that could work for this book. Keep speech. What's that writing there? Look, that is cooled more sugar is cool, more sugar. So let's just say with a more sugar has a rotting top work. That may work as well. So let's just straighten it up. Say to the wife moment. Could also work. Let's have a look and see what that looks like. It's rotting top. You can also use that. I think I prefer the other routing top. But it's always worth just having a bit of a look, just checking to see everything as you want it to be. Looked down here. They might be other things you want to put on here as well. So let's just have a little look and see if there's anything from these templates that we've got lot to add. Let's have a look on here. One of these things here we got starfish, but we not going to be further. The crab there. I'm pretty happy, I think with the font tops abused. Quite suitable for young children as well. And when you're designing your front cover, you just need to make sure we get that size rot. So always using the eye point by 0.5 inch. When you get your illustration, makes sure you had a border or stretch it and set the image as the background. Put your mind hitting on there. Just try and utilize the spice. Just got to be careful and I'm utilizing space because there are signals in the y normally I would probably make the rotting a bit bigger. But in this situation that's okay. And I have written by Romney Nelson. That would be the front cover that I'm creating. And that's what you would do for that front cover. It just doing to make sure that you don't have the writing too close to the bottom or RAM because we need to allow a little bit of spice for any trimming that occurs when they are printing the book. So it's always worthwhile keeping a few millimeters away from the edge. And you'll see that when we do upload our cover to Amazon, you'll say that I'll quickly show you an example of what that law needs to look like. A manual cover. The cover that I used in credit for another course that I've done. You can see the red line that runs around the border of your book. You need to make sure that there's no writing that falls outside of that red line. Images of fine that can extend all the way to the anion. You can see this an image that can extend through and that is okay. Anything beyond this water and black line here could potentially be cutoff. So you don't want anything really any images that you don't want to be cut off within the red line. That's where the writing needs to be for both the front and back cover. So we just need to keep that in mind when we're designing a kava using Canva. What I'll do now is go up here it goes share. We're going to download it and we need to make sure we save it as a pain J image. We click Download. And now we have that image and we save it in the file that we're going to keep all of that K images in nitrile. You do that when you save your front cover. And we'll be reverting back to this front cover and joining it with the back cover. Once we've created that, let's move on to creating the back cover. Now. 31. How to Design Your Back Cover: Welcome to this lesson. I'm gonna be running through the steps of that, creating your back cover, this term. Now you're back cover can be very simple or it can add a number of different features onto it that might include illustrations that are in your book and placing them on the outside of the book so that your customers can actually see what some of the inside illustrations and lock. You might also like to include a description on the back cover of your book. One thing that you do need to make sure you leave enough space for the ISBN, which is a barcode that goes to the back and that will provide your identification for your book across the world when you sell it. So let's get into this lesson. We're gonna get back to Canada now, which is on a back cover. And then what we'll be doing is bringing both the front cover and back cover together. So we've got a mine file top that we need when we submit your book to Amazon, kVp or Ingram spot. So let's get into the lesson now. What we need to do again is go to custom size. We have an 8.5 by 8.5 inch creatinine design. And now we've got the back cover that we can bring together the elements that we want to use. I usually thought to keep the tab open with the front cover so I can drag things across. So I might copy this and then paste it and I can make it a bit smaller if I want to. They're not going to use the beach adventure. Not going to include that in here as well, just make it a bit smaller. What are usually lot to do is try and get a color that are like, I would normally go to background. If I want to find out what one of these colors, then I can do that. So let's just say it's the light blue color here and get elements. Then I just pick shapes again. Any, anything's fun, all I'm trying to do is skip the color. So we go here, click there. And let's get that blue. That's the blue color there. We go, back to our back cover. Click on here. Click there. At the top. The color that we've got from Dan at the beach. What are normally locked to do is grab some illustrations that are inside the book and place them on the back. That might be one, not this one. So I can put that there. I can get this one as well. We might want to turn them on the side, slightly on the side. We want to do is make sure they're the same size. So what are normally do is just either the top or at the top and just make sure it's the same size. The other thing is the angle sets on seven thought degrees. This one can go five degrees that way. Just make sure it's center is at the top. We've got the scientists since on the sides. So when you're doing this, you can see the square has lining everything up. Now, what you might want to do is go back to elements. If we do shapes, I'll go to the border. Not walk a little blackboard around this. What am I aiming to do? Good, sorry, I'm just focusing on nice is allowing customers to see what some of the illustrations are locked in Saud. I just wanted to sorry, I just wanted to check this. We're going five degrees and this one needs to be fought degrees as well. What we tried to do is lack customers to have a bit of a sneak peek of what the inside is going to be for our book. Because if I can see a few of the illustrations inside, then they might actually lock what I say and I might think, well that's gonna be great. That's exactly what I'm looking for. They don't do the cytosol, so we're gonna go too far. I'm bringing up here the top. Then when we reduce this, say a lot that you can keep on playing around with these Smart Lock to add something on the side. For example, we might go to here. We're going to rotate this on the side. We can bring this up here. We might have a look at another color. Actually, we can go back here. We might use a cow. Let's have a look here. We need to get rid of that. I'm going to try and get this green color is this green right here? So we just choose one of these again. And we're going to pick there the green here. Green color, not coming out for some reason. We will choose it there. Copy that. Go back here. Click there. The grain Matlock to write something in here. Kids. Six. Guy, we need to make sure that the rotting isn't too close to the edge. Struggling to move it where you want to on only just zoom it up a little bit. We wrote there, I think it's gonna work. We can add whatever features we want. We want that to be watt. And that muddy them look a bit better. And we need to extend this beyond. What we can also do is we can add some beach, beach theme in the background. We might lot to grab an umbrella. Umbrella. You can have a look and see if there's anything here that we can use. Saved me, say something like that. You can go down here. When you're doing this, you need to see that there's gonna be an ISBN code about there. It just needs a lab that spice rot there for any ISBN is going to be putting into place. They might be other things he had not liked to include. So I have a bit of a look through this one might be even a good one as well. We might want to replace that one. You can flip it. That way. What you would normally locked to do is you can add a border around, he can add. You might have an illustration that you can put in the background. If I go back up here and go to uploads, you might even like to include one of these pitches in the background. Or it could be a component of the beach. You might like to change it up, just depends on what you wanted to do with the back of your cover. You can also, if I go back, sometimes you can, even if you reduce the page or this name, we got a to the image background remover. This is on the pro version. You can do this. What it will try and do is just get the seagull for me. Here we go. Well, it didn't quite work, but what you do, you go restore that'll restore that. It's not really what we wanted, but we just wanting one by itself. If we get rid of this, we'll try it once small guy there. Let's try and remove the background from just an image. It might or might not work. It could be a good market. Rid of that. Now we mark it back. Let's try one more time. We can remove the background. Let's start with saying that's what we can do. We're going to have that seating rot or want to have it on top of pizza on top up here somewhere. What we can do is just depending away we want to put it be the tricky one. We could have it sitting on top of there as well. If I could get rid of that, what you can do this, bring it down. There we go. Having seen that, now you might want to have some writing on your soul. Show you an example of where you've created a back cover with some rotting on it. So let me grab that and show you now. Here is an example of a back cover. We are, I've included rotting a bat, the book, and I've also included the illustrations. So that's something we can incorporate into our design as well. So let's go back. And include the fault. I said that the app and reason like that. What we'll do is go back so we can either leave them with a black random or we go to Edit Image shadows. Pij lift. Then that lifts up the illustration that we want to try and do the same for this one too. We might do that. We got eight of the image chateaus pij leafed. Then we can increase size like that. We're going to say Go down to be like that. We can include a rotting, a little blip here again, making sure we allow for the ISBN that will appear down here. That's saws at all. Spn will be let me get I squared. It will be approximately that saw is brought there. And I'll give you a quick example of where that's going to be showing on a previous book of credit as well. As you can see, the ISBN would pay down the bottom right-hand side of the back cover. And that's the size that we need to allow the spice we need to laugh for on app that covers well, so please keep that in mind when you're doing your design. We can actually leave that there for the moment. We can always delete it during the process of creating a back cover. Now what a model so do is include some quick little bit of rotting here. And then we'll be ready to save as a PNG. Now I've added just some rotting join all entailed as I visit the beach for fun field and exhausting day by the foreshore, only entitling about beach safety and some protection and have a wonderful time building. They're selling councils. I've just added that in there Of also lift the space for the ISBN. There'll be going there. And so this is gonna be more back cover. What are now do is save the back cava as the as I pay and G. So we go download, keep it as pain j, we download here. And we wait for that to upload. And then what I need to do is cite that in the raw file where I'm keeping all my files for this book that he's had to do the back carve-out, remember it's the sine domains and sub front cover. Later spice to the ISBN. And if you've got any illustrations, make sure that, that if you don't want them cut off, make sure they're a little bit further away from the edge. And remember, the writing also needs to be within your zone that so it doesn't get cut off as well. So it's always based on move it a little bit more and be safe. That's how you do the back cover. So you've got to have front cover and back cover. Now we just need to bring them together for a PDF file that we'll use when we're uploading ebook. 32. Formatting Your Cover Correctly For Upload: Now the next step in the process is formatting your cover, making sure that you've got the front and back cover in the raw format so they can actually upload it to get a peep. Now, on this lesson, we're going to be focusing on the paperback book. There are two ways that I recommend you can do this. Now. We can use Canva and we can use some calculations provided by cardiac pay. Or we can use a software program called Book bolt that takes away all issues regarding calculating the sources. What we might do, we'll start with Canva and then osha, you book bolts as well as that might be an alternative way that you could consider creating know Piper back if you want to save some time. So let's start with Canva and I'm going to show you my front and back cover. And I've actually made a couple of small changes to my front cover since the other lesson, just to make it stand out a little bit more. But let's get onto the next steps. This is my carbon out of my day hitting a lot bigger. And I've also included the rotting and slightly different font color as well. And my back cover is this one just here. So I could, if I wanted to change this to a similar font top is this PSA can just copy that. Go back here, and I can change that. And let's just save it looks like hi. Just to make sure that it's a similar sort to the front kabob satellite actually comes up quite well. So what I will do is I'm going to save this as the new cover. So downloaded paying j, It's Dan like that, I'll get rid of this other one. Psi that replace my previous back cover. And then I've got both my front cover and back cover falls ready to go. Now onto ADP kava calculator. If you want to find these, just go to Google and just write kava, kava calculator. And it will bring up a page that you will have the opportunity to plug in all the study here. Now it's important before we get to this stage to know how many pages your book is going to be. Because these will calculate the spine width that you need to have when you're including your internal manuscripts. So this might be something you need to do, light up on when you're creating your book. But for the moment of creating this lesson, at this point in time, we can get our cover clay colitis and to get up so it's ready to go. I've done a manuscript and it's going to be 40 pages. So what I'm gonna do is go to the bonding top. So a nice example needs pipe interior. I'm going to use a premium color. The piper top, stick Capet a watt pij, turn, keep it at left to rot. If you're doing the measurements were doing at these niches, the trim size. So I'm gonna be doing the eye 0.5 by 0.5. And the pitch camp on doing 40 pages, that's gonna be the length of my book based on my manuscript, what I've written, the illustrations have been completed. As I said, you may not know the exact pages at this point of the course, but you can always come back to these. Listen to create your Khabbab and the calculations. Once you do know, we just go calculate dimensions. Then it gives us these dimensions here. So this is what we need to put into Canva when we're putting together our front and back cover if we're using that software. So we got to canva, we go to Custom Size and we need to write these numbers in here so that an eye 0.75 and we're doing inches, height 0.75. Credit new design. Then this will bring up the front. This is the side and the back over here. What we name now need to do is we need to get the template which these also provides. So we got Download Template. It'll bring it up here. White fur to load. Then we're going to use the the pain J. And I'm going to do Control Print screen. So I'm gonna be getting a copy of this. I'm gonna go back to Design. We do Control V. Then we need to do is trim this rod up there. They're not going to do is position it here and stretch it. All the way to the end. Now this provides us with the template that we need to use for a book. So as you can see, we've got the template which can be moved around on here, but we want that to sit this. Then when we put out front and back cover on, you can see where it's going to sit. Then we simply delete this back template. Once we're done. We can see the pink that runs around here and also the ISBN barcode area. What I'm going to now do is upload my front and back cover. And then I'm going to place them in these ****** wrote here. So let me just apply mod two images, the front and back cover case, I've got my images, so I've simply click on that image. I don't move it. Just drag it to the corners right there. Right there. Then you can bring it across until it hits the end. Then we do the same with the back cover. I move it, just drag it, clicks into place right there. Then you can bring it rod across. Now it sits perfectly in place for a front and back cava, there will be an area that runs down here, that will be the spine. So that's where we just got to be careful with the dimensions. What we can do also is drag this across just to sit there. And we can also have look with a template as you can see, the thin watt area there, that is where the spine is going to be. So we can even drag it drag that picture rot there, and that one can go right there. That's a front and back cover. Now what we need to do is save it as a PDF. Let's get that organized right now. The first thing we need to make sure we do is we get rid of this template so it lifts it up a little bit. Click on the template, delete the template. And what you can also do if you like, is to add a background color. So go here, click here. And we're going to add the background color. Is any gaps at all. It'll be the same color as that sand right there. Now once that's all done and you're happy with the positioning, deny the ISBN or find there. If we wanted to have a look and say where it was, Let's just click it back a couple. We can say where the ISBN will fit right there or the bar code. So that is perfectly fine there. So let's get rid of that template again. Let's add the background color will just reverse. Grants working. Let's try it one more time. Now we've brought together, if we were to list it out, draw there. Now what we need to do is save it. And we are saving this as I PDF, not a pain G, a PDF. We go down to PDF print. We downloaded, just leave these. Don't add anything there. We don't need the crop marks and bleed. We're going to download that. That will then bring will give us the PDF file that we'll be using to upload book. It's important you site is somewhere carefully. I'm going to now save this file, this PDF file. And you can say it's got everything we need. So that's how you do it with Canva. Let's go and do the same process, but we're going to use a program called Book bolt. Now just going to save this file first and then we'll go to book bulb. Mode files are kept the front cover, back cover in the pain j and Mike, full cover, the front and back that we just created in Canada as a PDF document. So I've clicked on that. That would bring up the PDF and that's what we need to use for a download. Knock these two. Now the next thing we're gonna be doing is going to book bolt. And I'll show you a fast and simple why you can do what we just did without having to create undo all the, all the calculations. This is book bolt, book bolt dot IO. And it is a subscription model. It does give you quite a few free resources you can utilize, but we're going to be using the kava designer tool and Anita login to my account and it's a bat tenuous doughs per month for the software and IT is fantastic. I'm going to jump into and login and I'll show you how we can do a cover design and get that formatted very, very quickly. Once we're in book boat, we go up here and we click and we got onto book bolt designer. Then what we need to do, we've got an option of paperback or hardcover. In this lesson we can do and pipe it back. So we go there, leave it as cover non interior trim size. We go down to 0.5. By 0.5. We're using a premium, Kayla. We do our pitch camp which is 40, then submit and we just wait for it to generate the template that we need. The Kaaba template is now being done. So what are now need to do is go to images and our drop my images so that one. The back cover name, what I do is drag the image across. And on A2 position it. Saudis rot. So there's a little gray dots. There implies a guy down here. What am I to start again? Clicking on once. Just drag it until those little gray dots are on the lines and then drag it across until it seats rot in position just there. Then I'm gonna do the same with the bank habit. Drag it, hits the bottom line across, get it in position. Now it might be B2 far across, I can say that law and there. So we want to make sure that we're not too far across there. As long as a rotting is inside this gray box that goes around. That looks to be perfect at the moment. That's important. And once we've done that, then we can, we can do the download. So we go up here, here. Just firstly, just make sure everything's rod, as I mentioned, you just want to get these position so it could go halfway through the line here and then that one goes across slot that if you wanted the background to be a certain color, I'd recommend going to our color here. We can go to elements. I can find out exactly what are these BAD doing L shape. So we just got it here. Let's find out exactly what the calories, it's this color here. So we copy that. We'd go back to Book bulk designer and we get a product. Put that code in there. And now if we were to move this, the color is in the background there. Let's just get this back into position. Short. Oh good. Remember the spine is gonna be running down the middle here. So it doesn't necessarily matter if you've got a little bit of color they're showing his, that's gonna be fun as well. It looks like we are ready to side. Apart from that, we need to make sure that he's on the lawns and ready. So I'm happy with that. Now, what we do is push, download it, prepares it, and then we get to see if it's got everything that we need. Now it says ready to download. So we click Download. And then this will show us F front and back cover. And we simply didn't have to download it as a PDF. So there we are. Now, as I said, you do have that gap day which is the spine. If you did want to move the image across, you can. And then what we need to do is click on this. We need to save it so we can save it here. We'll just call it book bolt addition. And then we just need to save that. Going here. There we are. Said that is how quickly it can do the book bolt cover rather than having to do the calculations through cardiac pay. And with Canada, this is a much quicker and more efficient way. And I've never had a rejection on caddy pay when octane using book boat with the calculations. So it's definitely worth investigating if you think it's gonna be good for your future books that you're creating. Let's get back out of this now. And just to finish off this lesson. Now we've got our front and back cover all in one file as a PDF. Now this is your paperback. We can look at how we can do out hard back in another lesson. You can also use our book bolt to do that hard back for you. And it is quite simple OVR to show you that in the next lesson. And we also can show you how we can do our e-books. But the next step is to make sure that we've got a manuscript or where do they go, all designed so that we can actually bring it all together. So then we've got our file, a PDF file for our pipe or back cover. And we've also got a file ready in a moment for our manuscript as a PDF document as well because they, the two files that we'll be using to upload to pay for a book to be ready. Sides that concludes this lesson. 33. How to Create a Hardback Book Cover: If one of the options that you want to consider is making a hardback book, then this lesson will cover those things for you. Now, we also will look at an a book and how to format and credit that. But that will be part of another lesson later in the course. But there's a few things for consideration that we need to think about when we're creating our hardback. Because today pay limit the different sizes and the page numbers that we can use to create our hardback throughout children's book. Let's look at what those limitations are now. Let's first look at the different sides, size options we have for Amazon cardiac pain. There's limited them to five. There's a 5.5 by five inch, a six by nine inch, and 6.14 by 9.21 inch, seven by ten inch. And I 0.25 by 11 inch. Further to that, we can only create books that have a pij cap between 76 to 550 pages. Now if you're creating a Children's illustrated book, not many books are going to be 76 pages in length plus. Therefore, the Amazon KID pay option does limit your opportunity to create a hardback book. What I use Ingram Spark to do my hardback books that are less than 60, sorry, less than 76 pages. And we can create a hardback books with income Spock. It's the only, both main limitation is you will require what they call an ISBN. Isbn is a books identification number. And the identification number is a code that you get that identifies your book compared to anyone else's out there. The process range from $5 per ISBN if you buy them in bulk, even free if you're from countries like Canada, all the way up to a random bit naughty dollars for one eyes begin. Now that can be purchased via groups I bow alka.com. Or if you're in Australia, for example, it's dope Baca.com. But to get your ISP in, you'll need to purchase that. If you're using Ingram Spark, then that is definitely something you need to do. If you're using Amazon pay, that will give you an option to either use your own ISBN or to use the free one using Amazon API. And we can cover that off when we're loading handbook up. But let's get back to this lesson about how to create humpbacks. What we'll do is, I'll show you if you happen to have a book that he's greater than 76 pages or falls into one of these saws categories. What you need to do. Then I'm going to show you what you can do as an alternative with Ingram Spark. If you had a book that felt at sod of these dimensions and you wanted to use Ingram for the distribution of your hardback. Firstly, let's get to Amazon kVp, and how we create our template to credit Kaaba. And then we'll using grim Spark to do the sign but 4.5 by EI, 0.5 inch book or square book and the options that are available. I've now gone to the Amazon kVp cover calculator, and that can be found at Kite a P.amazon.com. Forward slash a n on the scroll. Us. Forward slash cover calculator. Even if you Googled calloc calculator, will Amazon tidy pay kava calculator? It would probably bring to these Pij anyway. What I will need to do if I'm selecting these, I'm going to choose hardcover These TA1 interior. I'm gonna use the premium PIPA top watt pij turn direction, leave it at left to rot. Measurement units is going to be as inches, trim size. This is when we choose one of these five options. In this situation, I'm just going to use a seven button just for illustration purposes. We know we have a limit As a minimum of what we can choose for pij can, I'm just going to choose IC for this example. We then calculate the dimensions and then we plug in these data house right here into Canada. So what I need to do is go to canva home and putting these dimensions. So I'm just going to copy this. We're gonna go into Custom Size, put that in there. Then we got we need to make it inches, sorry. Then we need to get a hot. That is the heart there. We put that in creating the design. This will give you a template again. Now what we need to do is go and download the template. For it to download. I put it up. We can open up the pain j. Then what we do is print screen back here, control V. Then we need to get rid of the asset side here. All the way to the pink. Then what I need to do is position, draw it here. It's central. Stretch it to the corners. And just make sure when you're trimming it that you get it wrong. You can always zoom it up if you need to get it. So it's rather we just stretch it down there. That is a template now we just need to bring it up a little bit. That's a template. What we would need to do if your book cover size, for example, is a seven by ten inch, you would then need to upload your image. So we let us use this one as an example. What I'll need to do is stretch it down here. Stretch it up there to the black lawn and drag it across seats rod on the spot. And if you want to use the background color, so you can go background color, you might want that Sandy Keller, the Beta background. So we go to the plus, use the drop-off, click there. And now that's the color there. But what we first need to do is you would add your back cover as well. Now I don't have a back cover. I do. I not I think I've got a back cover for this. Maybe I'll do let me have a look. Now. I don't have a back cava for these particular size. I just wanted to show you what it was locked. But if if this well, let's get rid of that. We're going to copy this. If this happened to be at back cover image, we will do exactly this side. We would size it, wrote to the size. If you wanted to, you can stretch it does a little bit over the black lawn. And the reason that they have the logic pink area around here is because we have Beck's is a fold-over that occurs with the cover up. So they need to allow for that. Don't have any writing that exceeds these black law and that runs around. And you can stretch your PNG image into the pink. Just know that that's gonna be folded over. Then once you've done that, you can delete the background. We can then add the background color if that's what you wanted to. So we can just use the drop-off. Now that's the background. And you've got your front and your back cover if that was gonna be brought. Now what we do is say that as a PDF file lock we did with our pipe book. The same process applies. These get the template, apply your colors and your route to go once you save it as a PDF. But what happens if our cover is a different size and we don't want either of those options that are provided in our trim saws is just here. What happens if it is an 8.5 inshore and I 0.25 by 8.25 inch cover. Will you need to use Ingram Spark? So what I'm going to show you is the Kaaba generator for Ingram Spark and how that works. And then we use Canva again to create the cover for us. What we need to do is go to the calculator or the cover, generate them. And you can get that. I'll show you where to get that right now. On Google, you can just go to Ingram Spock how that template generator click on the first link there. That will then take you to this page. Now as I mentioned, you will need an ISBN for this cover template generator, the work. Now it would be handy to create an account for Ingram Spock, and it only takes a bad thought, attain minutes to create that account. Therefore, you'll have everything ready to go for that. Later in the course, I'm gonna be showing you how to upload a book to Ingram Spock. And during that process, you'll see why I using room spark for my hardback books as well. But let's insert the ISBN that I have ready to go. Then all complete the details. So that we can get these template ready to go. Just go here into that in there. Don't worry about the publishing a published a reference number, trim size. These are the options if we go down further and just make sure that hard back in case laminated, ticked. And what we can do here is go back here and these are all the different sizes in hardback that Ingram spark of a. So they're not limited to those five that had a PE have. We are then going to go down and choose the eye 0.5 by 0.5 inch. Choose that size. I'm going to use color, premium color. You can choose standard or standard calyx 70. I'm going to use premium choosing the hardback Thyestes laminated option. I'm going to choose gloss in this situation. Pij count mod book, he's read about 40 pages. Now you get to choose a fall top. I just like PDF. I'm going to enter my e-mail address. Confirm it. Don't worry about the process, the currency, and download with the Prosci in the bar code. Then I'm gonna do is submit this. And this will provide me with the template borrowed amount that I can name use on Canva. So let me go ahead and do that now. Self narrowly say the email, I just simply open up the document, the template that I provided me and I'll do exactly what our deep before, but you need to get the actual numbers here. These are the numbers we're going to place into Canva, into our custom size so that we can create our hardback using this method. So what I need to do is go back to Canva and create these custom size. So the first number is this one which is the width 19.137, do not contain 0.137. And if we go back here, what we need to do for the hot, this is the hot number right here. Now, let's just go back to my tool. We've got our width and our hot. Yep. What we need to do is go back to here. On A2, add 1.5 inches to the hot side. If it's an eye, 0.5 inch hot, it will now become ten. If it was 11 inch hot, it would then become 12.5 inches. You just need to add 1.5 inches to what this number is here to inputted into Canada. So it would be ten inches. New design. This will blame bring up the template. We go back to this template right here, and I'll will print screen. And we'll go back to my template here. Control V, then reduced this all the way to the blue. All the white to the blue. Bring it down all the way there. Now need to position it so we're centered. Here it is right there. Stretch it to the corners, and just make sure that you have it as close as you can. Just like that. Quite happy with that. Now that you have this implies there are a couple of things that you need to consider. The ISBN, and it doesn't always work this way because i'll, I'll give you an example of a book that are created using Ingram Spark initially on the template that said the ice being was gonna be in the middle, but it ended up being down the corner here. Let me describe that book and show you. If I show you these, the ISBN is right here. It's not presumed presented or position right there where it's suggesting. So that's something that you just need to think about when you're creating your hardback. So don't think that it is gonna be right there. 99% of the time. It'll be down the bottom right-hand side. So you can go ahead and you can use your initial pain J image that you used when you created your pipe of x. So let me upload both eyes images and I'll show you how to position them. So that way in the spot where this area that runs right around here. So let me upload the two images that let me start with the front cover. We uploaded at prints in the middle, we drag it down here and we move the cover up to this position right here. You can probably just got extended a little bit. Now what you'll find is the image as you bring it across, easing going to be right where you need it. Say how there's a quite a big gap there between the pink and the blue. So you just need to keep that in mind. What are normally do. Is I will get the top and the bottom. And I will just drag it in lattice. They not bring that into the middle, rot there, then drag it down. Therefore, on my way, the rotting is, and if this pizza I bring it like this, there is no rotting, which is gonna be going to the blue area. Now you can drag it a little bit beyond h area. Just say that when it gets printed, you don't have a watt law and that runs around it, so I do like that. So that should be perfect for the front cover. Now for the back, let me get the back cover ready to go. I've got the back cover now. I do the same process, drag it down. Drag it up. It doesn't matter if extends beyond. I'm not doing sign here. Just bring it along here. To the end. You might want to get it centered. What we can do to center it is just keep it here and then bring it up so we know where it is. What we need to do is get it positioned there. Give his position just a little bit over. That's a little bit out of there. And that's a little bit either they're just slot that. Then for the background, we can, once we've got our front and back cover organized, what we need to do is to do the back color. We can just go background. The drop-off. We might use, we might use a Sandy Keller rod here. We do that. Then we get rid of that template and we have a front and back cover ready for our hard back. The last thing we need to do is save it as a PDF. Then that cover will be ready for upload to Ingram Spark. We got to share. And actually before we do that, let's just draw and adventure back. Kevin. Therefore it is labeled and listed their form. We say that we know what are these. Now we got to share and we need to go download. We are using a PDF documents. We click download. Then at document will appear in a moment. Once it satellite it. Here it is. We're just waiting for it to download. This will be ready for us to use when we decide to upload it to Ingram Spark. Let's just check it out. There. We are all ready to go and we will cite that into our file for lighter. So that's the process of using income Spock and kava for our backs. And it's not an easy y to be at a credit your hard backs with a variety of different options for the sizes. As I mentioned, cardiac pay on layoff of the font, different sizes. Ingram spark of a tan, or maybe even 14 or 15 different sizes. And we want to make sure we say this PDF, we have that available. It's just that you need to make sure you leave that gap that runs around and labial spice for the eyes begin. Now Ingram Spock, once you send it through, they will manually check it to make sure it's the right dimensions and it makes it all the requirements. So just make sure you use the dimensions that are provided when you are creating it using this and it's a mail through to you. Don't use the KD pay kava calculated to upload to Ingram Spark because they can sometimes on different occasions be different sizes that they use just fractionally that's enough to knock back for England spot and you have to redo it. So just make sure you use the right calculations that Ingram had provided when I email you through the cavity implant. Now going to cite this and we'll be ready to use this when we're uploading our HA back to England spotlight around. 34. Creating Your Book Interior: The next major step that we have as part of that creation process is getting our interior ready. Now there are a few steps you need to have ready before you start this process. Number one, you need to have your story or your manuscript ready to go and just ensure you've had it runs through Grammarly. You've had someone spelled ticket or grammar check it just to make sure it's right. The second component is to have your illustrations, your images, ready to go for your internal manuscript as well. These will B, a path that can be tricky at times to get right. But we need to make sure we take our time. We formatted correctly, and then once we got everything ready, we cite it as a PDF. Therefore, we have our color in PDF format and we have our interior or a manuscript ready to go also in a PDF format. Let me jump onto Canada now, and that's what we're going to use to create our interior. I have my illustrations ready now. I have my manuscript ready. It's just a bat. Bring them all together. And I'll need to work on, talk through how the structure of the book and the format of the book works. So you get that right from the very beginning. So the first step we need to do is create a custom design, which is 8.5 by 8.5, or that's my cover design. Using. So you need to choose what the kappa design is that you're using on using inches I 0.5.5. And we got to create new design. Now, if we were using bleed, we would need to add the blade onto the ongoing to actually choose blade. What I'm about to do the calculations, I can show you. What we need to do. Here is let me just do this. 0.58.5. If that's out except to have a cover, then what we need to do is add 0.125 inches to the width and 0.25 inches to the hot. What that'll end up being 0.62 inches multiplied by 0.75 inches. I did there. From that number is added 0.125 to the width. And I added 0.25 inches to the hot basic gonna be my new calculations for my interior. If I'm adding bullied, if I'm not adding blade, you just keep the dimensions, the sign as this. Please refer back to previous lesson in regards to bleed or no bleed. And that will allow you to decide what you want to do. But for this example, I'm gonna be using bleed. So I'll need to go back to custom design. I'm gonna be doing ICT 0.625.625 multiplied by point. Correct? New design. Now this is our anterior. So what I'm gonna do interior venture. And I also 625.75. That will give me the actual measurements. And all. Remember that for the interior, the first thing we need to do is create pij number one. So if you think about when you have a book, when you open the cover, the first pages on your right-hand side, we normally put information there that might be about usually the first part of the book that we might want to create. We might add information on page two, copyright page. We've got when we open the book up, that's on the right-hand side. Page two is on your left, page three is on your right. Any any even numbers are on the left-hand side. Any odd numbers on the right-hand side of your book when you are flicking through the pages. What I'm gonna do now is add my interior. I'll start the creation and then I'll resume the filming of this lesson. So the first thing that I'm gonna do, I've just started this first page because I open up the front cover just to grab this information here. But what I'm gonna do is download all of the illustrations that I've had created. So therefore they ready to go. What I need to do is just continue to add the pages of the book and add the manuscript information. So I'll need to have that on the whole ready to go. They can just be in a Word document and copying and pasting it. And then I have my illustrations as well. So let me upload all my illustrations and I'll have my manuscript ready. Then I can just keep working through the book and adding the information as sound participating, downloading all of my illustrations now you can see them all popping up. And in total I have IT including the front cover. Can use some of these illustrations as part of the first page. What am I do is use this one just here. But what am I trying to do is type of why the background. So I'm left with Ali and TD. Diagnose this will work or not. But let's see if I can use the background removal tool to get rid of the sand, the background, it might just get rid of the blue. But let's say what it looks like if it does come up correctly, it didn't come up. The wire wanted to, even if I went to a rise, would have to spend a long, long time getting rid of all the sand here and then it becomes very, very fiddly. Could potentially do this. But what a model, so I try and do is safe is another illustration I can use, or a mop you how to use the whole one in his spot. So this is to cancel. Cancel again. We're going to get it back under the pitcher. Could even do this potentially. It's like this. Even if it is quite small, that it's not odd deal. Still think it could work. If I do a lot. These just got to be careful that I've also got the bullied running around, so just need to be careful with that. Could could have it locked that to get rid of that altogether and just have my mine at the top here. My illustrator details down there. Leave it like that. So that's one option. So it's a matter of just playing around with these try and get the rot options suitable. Didn't put that up there. I just need to try and work out if there's something on it, put it in this place. Here, mod I didn't go back to here, Olin TD. That could leave it at altogether. That's part of the process, is not rushing it, just trying to get the design rot. I can show that where you're putting words isn't covering up illustrations and things like that. You might want to have public class if we go here, probably find something suitable that maybe we can always change the color as well. What are the cows have we got here? Different bubble might go back here. Let's have a look along here. See if there's anything that could be suitable. Change it to blue. If we could see this in watts, looks better. You can leave it like that. You could change things up. You might want to put it up the top there. You might just get rid of this altogether and then might apply again. Just draw a few different things worked through your book. Determine what's going to be best for the book. I think that suits that spot. That might be fun because when you open up the book. When you had the front copy book, you're going to have that Pij. Then the first page you see is that, which is perfectly fine. And the next page we have we scroll down will be the disclaim or the copyright page. So I've got the details in filled in here already. And then the next page after that, you'd just like to add something about the old thigh. You could just have credit by and similar to what I've done, as we look through the book, we would have pij or sorry, the front cover, page one on your right-hand side as you open up the book, then that's on the left-hand side, page two on your right-hand side. Now what we need to do is start to add the manuscript and we just need to put all of that information in there. I'm gonna start to add my own manuscript into my pages. And then I'm going to add a full illustration here. For example. This one here, I'll just need to look through page is going to be leave it might be that one. And we're going to be working in reverse lawyer through when you had your illustration in place. Right-click. Sit as background image, and therefore you've got the whole image costs a whole page. That's what I'm going to do for this design of the book. Then I need to add my own manuscript here. So I'm gonna grab my manuscript from a Word document and start to place the words here. I have my manuscript with everything I've got four or five pages. What I'm gonna do is copy this. Go back here, and I'm going to paste it. I'm gonna be using plying GI and bold as my fonts hop. I don't need to make sure you get the right consistency is saw as established 24 bit small, but I'm also going to narrow it a bit. Position, center, middle, money to go a bit bigger. Guy, position, middle. Grab your sand Bucket, yell Daddy from the door, Roth to the beach to enjoy the foreshore. That needs to be a lowercase. This is what you need to make sure you check before you start doing it. So all I need to go back and make sure my manuscript is accurate and that each Tom, I add my manuscript words that they're gonna be fun and I don't have issues later on. And the other decision or need to Nike is the background. So do I use background is color here? On my trot? Begin with and see what I need to do. Just to get that background, get rid of that color. Just get the **** out of here. I think it's that color, which is just get rid of this box down here. To the background. Color there. Anyway. Now we've got our illustrations. You can do the sign color if you want to with these, you might want to change that to white. We're all not gonna change it to watch. Just to paint is what's going to look a fictive. Not be better in watt. Back and leave it at watt for the moments. We scroll down here. Same bucket that if no door after the base enjoy the foreshore. Now I'm going to keep adding the manuscripts and my illustrations. And I'm just gonna keep this style. It's quite simple, but I think it's gonna be effective. And when you're creating your manuscript, you just need to determine what the right design style will be for your book. This bookmark be very different from your book. Wouldn't recommend copying the design side of things or the formatting because it could be very different from what you've got. But I'm just showing you the prices I go through when our correct more internal manuscripts and my internal document. So it flows occur to thinking about the customer, the size of the writing, the position of the writing. Do I want full page illustrations? Don't want half-page illustrations with writing. Do I want the writing to appear on the page? So as an example, you might want to have a section of your illustration that actually has the rotting somewhere on your, on your book or inside here. It's not gonna work because as illustrations aren't suitable for that. But if you're creating illustrations and you want your writing to appear, you need to notify your Illustrator or have your your illustrations position. So can include the writing for this book on having them separately. When the customer or the child, for example, opens up the book, you've got the rotting on the left-hand side, and then you've got the illustration on the right-hand side so they can see the rotting and re the writing. And I can see the illustration on the other side. I'm going to keep working through this book. I'm going to use the same background and then H Tom just going to add an illustration as our scroll through it. So let me just do a couple of others to show you. And then you can say that process all the way through. So I have now pretty much completed the internal side of my book. I started with that covered that we looked at before. Then I had my disclaimer or more copyright page that I had just had an author who I am credit by dinner started my manuscript. I had my first couple here. Then I have my illustration. Then writing again. Then I had my illustration that I have my rotting again, that have my illustrations are kept on going through the book like that. Now, this guy and this is my flow of the book, is gonna be suitable to this design. But this think about your audience. What's going to work well within what structure is going to be best for the child. When they radiate, the size of the writing, the kind of rotting, they need to be able to say the letters and the outer rate, it needs to be large enough for kids to be able to read it. And they need to be at a flip through the book and see those illustrations and had them nice and clear. The illustrations for me, I've decided to make them full page in an 8.5 by 8.5 book. That's gonna be quite large, but that's my intention. That's what I wanted to do. Now what I'll do is I'll just go right to the back of the book and I'll show you another case. They achieve what she might like to include in your books in the future. The end of the book, there's last illustration with Ali entailed going to sleep after a big day at the beach. And then I've got a bat. The author now just got some little bit of information here, picture of myself. But one thing you can include would be a QR code that mod direct customers to your author central page or website somewhere that you might be able to sell more of the same book. They might be other books you have in that series that I can go to. You can create these barges, go into QR code in Canada, you entered in, generate the code once he thought the URL in there and it generates it. That's how ACTs. And then you can just say where it's going to. You can add whatever you want to be able to add. Another bonus page here. There might be some information for me, for example, that beach safety, my heavier book about something else and it might be another bonus. The concept that you might like to include in your book, which would help build an e-mail list. Those sorts of things that are important to consider when you're doing your manuscript and take you Tom, Just go back through the manuscript, make sure you've got the grammar correct. The rotting stall is accurate. We've got everything place where you want to because from experience, the last thing you want to do when you publish a book, he's saying era and after reload it and redo it and reformat it, just try and take your time. It's best to spend an extra two hours, half a day awake, getting the book right, get someone else to double-check it for you before you site and have it in the format that you need. The next part we need to do once we've completed our manuscript, we got everything right. They only need to do is go to store to download the document. So we go to Share, we go download. We're going to download all 38 pages, but we need to make sure it's in PDF print. Then we download it. And then we have our document out internal manuscript ready to go. And that's an exciting part of the journey. We've now got our front cover in paperback and hardback if you have it. We've also got our manuscripts now, remember minds in blade. If you don't want blade, just do the normal dimensions. But if you wanted to blade to add 0.0125 to the width and 0.25 to the heart. And that will give you the bullied for this manuscript. There you have it. That's the interior. All done. This lesson is complete. Now for the next lesson, we've got coming up. 35. Writing Your Book Descriptions: Welcome to this lesson. I'm going to be covering the importance of book descriptions and the structure that you need to follow to make sure they're as engaging as possible for your customer. Now there are some key things that we need to include in-app book description as applicable, because not all books will require this, but it's good to have a general rule of thumb when he going through. So firstly, the k tips must be grandma error-free or as close to it as the candidate, because customers will pick that up and they might judge the Y that you create your book description with what is actually part of your book. So you just need to be very careful when you're writing a book description to be grandma and and spelling free. What we need to do is include a strong hitting. We need to make sure that, that captures the attention of the customer immediately. So then I want to keep reading. Next thing is to include k product pitches of the book, but only if applicable, needs to be well formatted. And then other k information that might flow as part of the description. Now, Amazon cardiac paid doesn't last to include an HTML as part of our inclusion for ad description. But we can also use the formatting tool within caddy pay. But there is capital of tools that I use that or thought to be better. Now using the HTML code allows things to be bolded, better headings, and just stands out a lot more. So getting those features rot is important. We'll be covering that. I'm gonna show you an example of a book description. But I'm also going to go onto Amazon and let's have a look at a few examples of good and bad book descriptions, anything covering these key points here. Let's get onto my example that I'm going to show you for the Ali and Bache adventure. And be able to go through the key steps that I took and the template that I'll create h time, I have a book Soft followed the same prices. This is the structure that are generally follow. I had the key tips up here to remind me. And then I've got the title, the subtitle, the description information below, product overview, and the HTML code which we will create the k tips, again, creating a headline that captures the attention of the customer. So firstly, the total Bay all entailed the beach adventure subtotal, the exotic adventures of all indeed, Sun and beach safety for toddlers, new experiences. Now the description, my heading will be explore and have fun at the beach with Ali indeed, then my description is in orientate the beach adventure all in TDD visit the beach for fun field and exciting day by the foreshore. All entitled learn about beach safety, protection and had fun exploring the beautiful rock pools while searching for sea creatures and shelves. The Oregon TD first-time experience series is a fun and enjoyable pictures storybook using creative rhyming language and to lawful color illustrations to help young children prepare and provide reassurance for new experiences. With beautiful engaging illustrations. Toddlers will love to follow all intake on all of the new adventures. So what I've tried to do there is include a key headline of God information in there about the book. Now what I'm doing is k features or product features and onto the dot points. So we've got an 8.5 by 8.5 inch book, 40 pages printed on premium color PIPA, and available in paperback, hardback and a book, your model. So I like to say that's a gloss cover. Or it could be a matte finish just depending on what your undo. And then this bottom line is what I call a call to action. There's actually evidence to suggest that by having these increases your chances of a style. So I've got scroll up and click the Buy Now button, sorry, click up and sorry, scroll up and click the Buy Now button to die. And what I need to do now is create my HTML. But firstly, our need to check that this information is grammar and spelling frame. And I'll use Grammarly. I've got my Grammarly connection here. And I'm going to click on that. And then we're just gonna see what comes up. So it's initializing it now. It'll give me the options. So it'll say just here, visit the beach for fun field and exciting day. Died thinks I am going to lay that. Ethan. Yes, I'm okay with that. For all entailed learned about beach safety. Some prediction model leave that next one, rock pools, these two words. That's if I'm using English, Australian, UK, or are you going to leave the US spelling? Because that's my mine. Audience. Illustrations. Now they're not the diet illustrations. Diet can be images, but I'm just going to leave illustrations. And then here we go. Totals will love to follow oriented on the new adventures. We could probably get rid of that. That covers off the Grambling. And what I need to do now is to just bring that back in Montenegro to change that to e-book. Just check that. Regard. I've got everything on a never next tip that I usually do is I add the HTML code. Now there is a great free resource we can use. Now what I'm gonna do is highlight all of this, copy it. I'm going to go to can-opener. It's kinda enterpreneur.com. Afford slash, Amazon Dash, book, dash, description, dash, generate a forward slash. And what we're gonna do is just going to get rid of this. Water provides you is a place where you can create your HTML code. What we do, we'll come up with a narrative. Begin with when we do this. That's a kite. We do it again. Well, we'll just make sure it's all good there. Now, I did forget to put in those other product features. So we need to do, we need to add this information in as well. We go back and add that. It should be all there. Now, what I need to do is highlight these and you can have a hitting some mountain like that, hitting four. Then Ahmad even bold, this bold. Just have looked through here. Product either view as a hitting a ball that it's already got the dot points. But what I might do is use the HTML code generator to create those for me. One of my shorts or automatic correctly. So we haul lot those. We got back up here and we can use a bullet list. And then I'm gonna highlight that in bold and name. We've got everything right. So once that is done, you scroll down here and I generate my code. This is the code. What I then do is grab that code and go to another site Code I blurb.github.io. This shows you exactly what customers are going to see on Amazon card API. Now there's pain suggesting that Amazon pay limiting the size of your hitting. Going to make mine and three, just to make it a little bit bigger. And I believe this still accepting that and I'm going to leave it. So then I just make sure that everything is what it's gonna look like when I go to Amazon or women Booker is live. What do I need to do now is copy this code. Copy it. I'm going to place it into this section just here. You can reduce the size of it doesn't need to be that full size. We can unbolded and we can just make it like that. Therefore, when we go to load up our book in Amazon, when we get to this section just here, when we loaded up a book, we can include the HTML code right there. This is on the first page when you're loading up your details. And we can add HTML. So we could add it loud that therefore, it is all set to go. And when you do go to Amazon IPO feature, exactly a lot of these, it'll be able to read it correctly. That's how I do my book description. And that's an example of water I would do for the Ali and tidbits adventure book. And I'd have my k features or run it through Grammarly. Make sure I've got my dot points. I've got a code of action of K Hitting as well. Put it through can-opener to create the HTML code which is there. And then I've also done the Amazon Blue Preview just to double-check and see what it looks like. And then when it does get to this point, I can add it in, but just ensure that you save all of your details onto your template. And therefore, when we do go to load up my book, we've got everything set. So I'm just going to save that now. Before we finish this lesson, let's jump onto Amazon. And let's see a few different examples of the description formats that other authors are using any there, including these five key features just here or key tips that we need to include. Now I'm on Amazon and I'm just going to go through and have a look at C, has some other authors are creating this. So let's go to Biscuits first speech day. Let's have a look at it. I've done it. Now this is very, very short. I would create more information, go to the beach with biscuit. And that's all I've done. Psi, that is very basic information. Let's have a look at, Let's go down a bit further. Let's have a look at, Let's have a look at this one. See what I've got here. They got the dot points. So they've got the nine hitting, learn from home and explore the world with a span and easy board books. Were young children love to play in the whys of the beach. He is Hello World book that teaches them all that oceans and the creatures and plants that live there. Then they've got the different series of books so you can include that information as well. So that's how I've done that book. Let's have a look at Daniel's first, our diet, the beach. Let's go to here. They've got their main heading or a couple of headings. And I've got some information here about it. Again, they haven't got the product features are being including a bit more to capture the attention of the audience. Let's go down to look at some successful books that are doing really well. So I'm just waiting for the ranking. Let's have a look at which one is it? Let's go to the next page. See if there's any more Beach books are doing well. This book seems to be doing quite well. Here we are. Here's some more dot points so that I've got in mind hitting written, find out about what leaves in the shell in his California will start at nonfiction picture book. Then it's couple of mine information has got dot points, further dot points. So that includes my my information. And what you'll find when you load your book up is you'll get the k product information down here as well. This is 32 pages, the grade level, the rating ij. And so you're getting a bit of an idea about watching need to include. And when you've got your description, you need to have some of those key points that hitting a bold. Italics might be dot points and the HTML code does it for you. Let's have looked at the beach. Bluey. It's got a nine hating here. It's got a bit of information. Again, I'd be including more information just to try and attract the customer. But obviously this has been effective at the moment. And it just goes to prove you don't need a huge description, but you just need to make sure it contains information which the customer wants, needs to make that decision to buy. That covers off the information about our book descriptions and our hope that it covers everything that you need. A bat writing a book description and formatting that description and lighter on when we're uploading our book, you'll have that information. Where did he go to put into Amazon keda in that description component of the applied process. Hopefully that helps you get everything ready for your book description. And you can also use a description on the back cover of your book if you want to make an amendment to that as well. So that's an important information to feed through regarding your book descriptions. 36. How to Create an eBook: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you a simple and effective way to create an e-book. And you use Amazon's Kindle create. Now it's a free download that you can do and only need to do is go to Google and Google kinetochore. And it will provide you with a download. I'll show you where that is now. If you just go to kinda create and type it into Google, then you click here kinda create. Then you'll be given an option to download the PC or download for Mac. Once you've downloaded it, it will then be on your PC or your Mac. And then you can then start to use that software for free to create your e-book. And it will be specifically tiled. All the files will be tiled for upload to Amazon. And you can't use those files if you're uploading, for example, to Ingram spot. But it is a great little phrase software program you can use to create your e-book, which is nice and simple. Now if you wanted to create an eBook for Ingram Spark, then you can get people to format and create that for you. So you might have different platforms like five or, or Upwork. And you can just simply write a book formatting. And there'll be plenty of gigs you can get to create that for you. But for the meantime, let me show you how to create your a book, which is a great option for customers to purchase using Keynote create. Once I've downloaded the software, it will appear on your desktop. And all we need to do to do is go to Create New. And then we start filling the details. Then I'll give you a couple of different options. It's either flowable comics or print replica. Now you just need to read through what is going to be most suitable for yours. If you do flow, but we need to choose other doc or docks. On the comics, you can use a PDF document, and that's what I prefer to use. I'm going to go comics. And you can watch tutorials about how to put it altogether. And it was say, the compatible devices. So free Kindle Fire tablets or Kindle e-readers. Going to continue. And we look at the rating direction left to rot Ratliff, we're going to use left to rot the landscape so I can now the single-pass images are facing pages. Now facing pages is when you've got the lift and rot together with my book, that's what it needs to be. So I'm going to use facing pages. So you got one-page Pompey's it, if you want a single pages, that's where it's going to look like. For this book on using facing pages or NAMI to choose my files. So choose the files or PDF or the jpegs. Then on a to choose the file type. So you can either choose an image or the PDF and the PDF. Now I've got here my book interior. And that's more full book interior with the blade. So I'll click that one and I'll choose that file. If we are open. Now it starts to create the actual document. So it's importing and converting your document. Just wiped for this to happen, import successful. Now what we do is go continue. Now it brings up my book. And so you can see how it's all flowable. If we go to the next page, we're gonna X1. We can see how it will show everything together. This is how it's going to be viewed. So what we need to do is just go to the View. Actually what we'll do, we'll go to here and we're just going to be facing pages needs to be adjusted here. We should just have a single page that's automatically done the facing pages. So I've got my writing, then. I've got my illustration, rotting illustration, rotting illustration. And then that puts it all together for me. So it's all together all the way through to the end, which is the final page just here. That's all set to go. And then on a to do is to preview it so we can click and say what the radius will actually say. That's what the rate is again, the customer C. And we can flip through each page if you want to. And you cannot have a visual look at, see what it's gonna be locked. So that's how it's going to look on the radar. That's good. And that works out perfectly for what I want. They want or need to do is go up. We can just do this, get rid of me just here. We close that down. And now what we do is do we need to size the kinda credit in progress. So we cite it. What we need to do is go to the area and that's going to be siding with the scroll to the file. That's the specific Amazon one. We're going to save that. Reduce the length of like I don't need to do. I need to go back here. Save it. What we might do is just get rid of these like that inside saving the project. Now what I need to do is generate it. So export your Kindle e-book to publish the Kindle so we can generate that. We're going to do the same thing. We might reduce the size. Back here. We save it. Now that your file is ready to publish. If we go to where the file is, it actually shows you a little box here. This box here contains the file and the formatting when a, when we upload our a book to Amazon KID pay. So that is the file here, the one that looks like a little cardboard box that contains the files that will be needed for keda. It's called the kinda correct Previous. That's exactly what it's going to be. Let's just go later. And that's how easy it is to create your a book using Kindle create. It's very, very simple and effective and it does all the hard work for you and size it all formats at all, as long as you've got the right PDF and we've cited the Rottweiler initially in the PDF document when we started with Canva. That's how we do a book for Amazon card API. Just to conclude this lesson, to be really clear, what you need to do is have the Kindle create, downloaded onto your PC or Mac. Then what you do is have your PDF document ready, no interior ready. And then you have when you load your book up to Amazon, you provide the cover. And then you provide the Kindle create file that I just showed. You got that little cardboard box which then upload and I'll go through the process and show you how that all works when it's rotten to upload our e-book onto Amazon. That is the process of creating a book Nice and simple. You're a book using Kindle create. And that is a free software that you can just download nice and simply, and you can use it for Amazon. 37. Being Publish Ready and Format Types You Require for Uploading: This has been a big section of the course and we're now getting to the very exciting where we're going to be getting ready and the published ready to load that book up to Amazon cardiac pain. One of the file types that we need in preparation for having high back at Piper, back at a book ready for uploading to Amazon cardiac pay. And then what about the paper back and back ready for other groups or other platforms? Lock Ingram, Spock. Let's have a look at these different file types that we'll need to have a paperback and the a book. And so we've also got our interior documents. Effectively. We need a pipette back cover, and that's going to be in a PDF format. We've got our hard back cava that's gonna be in PDF format. And our interior. And all of those documents need to be put into the one file. Show you what I do in preparation to be print ready to be uploaded, ready for Amazon card API and Ingram Spock. Organize my files. I've got a book, hardback and type it back. These are the three top books they don't creating for this book. So what I need to do is I'm going to click on a book. So if I'm uploading my ebook on now, which fold up to go to this, we'll have the two files, the one Niger fall here that I'll be using for the e-book uploading that are just created on Kindle create. Then if I go back, if I go too hard back, then I've got my book interior, the interior with Blade stuff. I'll click on that. That just brings up the PDF version for me right here. So that's really the guy. Then if I click here, I've got my hardback cabin in final format. That's the PDF version again. So that's part of the lesson we did when we created the hardback cover. Then if we go back here and we get back, I've got three fall tops here because at 1 in time during one of the lessons we created a pipe of back cover using book bolt. Remember you can also use book both for your hardback cover. We didn't cover that in the lesson about the hardback. But I do provide you with an option of creating hardback using book boat as well. So that's something for you to consider. We've got the sine book interior. It's the same file as the one in the hardback or just copied it and put it in here as well. Then I've got the Kaaba that we did on Canva. So we got that one to choose. Or I can choose the one that we did in football, which was that one. So our market may probably use the book bolt cover. Doesn't really work for me either one. These gonna be fine. What I need to do is have all of those ready to go. So they should all be in PDF format and ready to upload. You might choose a Word document and that is okay. Fault hops in Word document are okay. But when we go through the uploading process shortly in a future lesson, tidy pay will stipulate what fall tops you can use. But to be safe, I always use PDFs and it tends to lock in everything and it's much easier to upload. That's how I organize it. Mod book falls to uploading a book, hardback, paperback. Their default tops of got my cover or more copies across all three. Got my interior ready to go, and I've got a rockfall tops. And that's the organization that I would probably encourage you to do when you're using your book. Also applied you up. That's the end of this lesson, and we're about to move on to a new section. 38. Section 6 Introduction - The Upload Process: Welcome to section number six of the course, the upload process. In the section, I'm gonna be showing you the major files that we need to have to get up when we're uploading our books to Amazon card a P, that also the opportunity of uploading your book to Ingram Spock, which is another opportunity that you can have for global distribution of your books. Now the applied prices is important because if you upload the wrong files, the wrong fall taught you could potentially get a rejection from Amazon pay and you have to restart the process and just delays that. Launched Pretty much of your book. Make sure you watch these lessons carefully. Take some notes if you need to. Look forward to delivering the next lessons for you. 39. Creating Your KDP Account: In this lesson, I'm going to be talking through the correct white to create your kVp count. So let me jump onto Amazon now and show you through the simple steps to create your camp. The first step is to go to card api.amazon.com. Forward slash in under scroll us backslash, forward slash. So I'll put this in the description notes, but that is the dress ego to watch you need to do is to sign up to a new account. That process will actually take you through the steps that you need to do to develop your ADP account. When you do start moving through the process, just going to click on create your account. And you can then start to enter the details and passwords and details like that. Now the main criteria that you need to include us, the things like nine, address, your texts, information, bank account details, and things like that. And this step takes you probably the steps take you maybe random bat, bet ten minutes to do. But it is nonsense, simple. Kp have created this easy to do. And remember to only have one account. You're not allowed to have multiple accounts when you create a Kindle Direct Publishing account. So please remember just the one account and remember what a email address that is under and your password details as well. That is very simple step process to developing your cardiac pay account. 40. How to Upload to Amazon KDP For Global Distribution: So how do we upload that book to Amazon? Keda paid. There's a few different methods you can use, but all ought to be organized before going into the process of uploading my book. I've got a template that I use to make sure I've got all the details. So let me show you what information I included that template. So before I actually saw it in to apply my book, I have everything prepared and ready to go. My template of God's seven different things that don't need to get together. I've got my title and subtitle details. Here they are here. My author name. So it depends if you're going under your own name, a pen name, published, a name, just make sure you've got that ready. We've got to have description in the HTML format. So that's what we just put straight into Amazon. We could add categories. This is, in a previous lesson, we were doing some niche research and we're looking at books that were in the area. We're looking at publishing and the different categories that we've got. But there is a way to ensure that you can check the right categories. And that is through another platform. So I'll show you that as well. Then we could have seven backend keywords that we can talk more as we go through the process. But basically it gets seven keywords you can include that you want your customers to be searching for, to find your book. That just help if you can't include keywords in your title or subtitle is seven backend keywords is that spot. Number six, we have our anterior fall and a book cover file. And then we have an idea of your book price. That could be something you need to do some research on before uploading a book. So you price your book accordingly. Don't want your book to be priced too high or too low. You need to be in the market to get those styles. And you need to look at the length of the book, the size of the book where they're in color were there in black and white. All of that comes together to ensure you get the rock pricing for your book. So we can have a little bit more of a discussion about that when we get to that stage of the upload process, let me hop onto Amazon, onto my cat AP camp. And we'll go through this upload process. Now, the first thing we do once we've logged on and we're under our bookshelf, what we need to do is click this big yellow button here, and it says Create. Now that will give us the option of choosing either a Kindle e-book, a type of bag, or a hardcover. Now in this lesson on the go and do paperback. But the price is, is almost identical for the other options here as well. Let's just do paperback. And we can run through this process of uploading your pipe of Factbook. Two, kVp, click Create Piper back. And this is where our preparation comes into place. So we've got our language. So you choose what language your book is going to bain On leaving that as English book title. So I'm going to go and bring up the details and say book titled copy, go back and paste. That's what's going to be organized. Subtitle again, I'm just copying and pasting all this information. Back to the book. Paste these yearbook part of a series. So if you're east part of a series, maybe you've already created two other books. Then you can add that to the, it's for the minor. I'm just going to leave that, but this book will form part of a series as a mike more books for Ali, indeed, edition number. You can include the edition number if you want to. I'm just going to lay that at the moment it is optional author. What I'm gonna do is put in here and then I do the contributors. So if you want to include an Illustrator, you can do that. You just need to click here and you might want to put the illustrators name or the details. Just depends how closer partnership bees that when you're creating your book, is it someone that's being a father gig and you just have formed a relationship while getting illustrations done. Are they a long-term Illustrator for you? And you've worked really closely with them and you've discussed whether they should be on the book as part of a contributor, data things you need to cover off. You can't just go adding paper without the knowledge of them actually being contributor. So make sure you get that check first. Then we go down to the description. And this is where we add in the HTML code. So we copy and paste. And we'd leave that like that. Then what we do is go to publishing rights. You own the copyright and hold necessary publishing rights. Yes. Now, some people do public domain work. This means it's freely available on the public dynein. I have never done that. Always about creating my own unique books. So I'll just leave it there. Now, the seven backend keywords. This is when you, these are words you couldn't keywords you couldn't fit in your title or your subtitle, that would, you'd lock your book to rank for on Amazon KD peak. For this one. You might like to do some prior research. Don't overthink it too much though. These optional, but choose up to seven keywords to. In your book. There's a drop-down here about how to choose them. Just make sure they're relevant and don't repeat words during the title or category, the description, because that will already be found in the algorithm. You just need to list word. So it might be safety for safety for toddlers. I'm just going to fill out a few more of these and resume the filming for this lesson. Now I've added these in beach adventure for toddlers, Sun Safety for toddlers, beach swimming books for toddlers, kids books about Beach, beach books for babies, water sport toddler book, summer toddler. I've added these seven keywords because these are potentially words that customers will be using to find the book. I've chose a nice Now categories. I've listed these books, children's quarter sports books under the categories. Now if we want to engage with these, then there is a freeway and a pied way. Look at the freeway to begin with. So what we need to do is go to book bolt and it provides a free categories search. I'm on book bulk now and I haven't logged in. Just go to Resources KTB, category fonder. So what I'm gonna do is do my keywords. So let's have a look at, let's just do water sports. See what comes up. These are the different ones here, juvenile nonfiction sports and recreation, water sports. That's the 100 want juvenile nonfiction sports, recreation. Juvenile non-fiction. We go down. We followed it. Sometimes it'd be hard to find sports and recreation. We're doing water sports. Then the other one was children's new book experience. I would just do new experiences. Go back to this one. Look. We go try and find new experiences. If it's in here, have seen it before, doesn't seem to be there. I might have another look. The other way we can do it is by using publish a rocket, which is I paid way. But let's see if we can do that. So I'm gonna bring up publisher rocket. I'm going to go to category search. This is a paid subscription publisher rocket. Sorry, it's not, it's a one-off payment of about a 100 US dollar. And you get this software philosophy. So we're gonna do is go to book. And if I do, Here we go. So this is the one we got to go growing up in facts and law, family law for new experiences. It's under children's books. And we need to try and find that category. So let's see if I can find that now. If I go back to juvenile nonfiction, I believe it's in here. Social issues of the MOP under new experience here we are. I've got the two categories of selected a juvenile nonfiction sports and recreation, water sports, and then juvenile nonfiction social issues, new experience so you can choose to I'm choosing those two. Does this book contain language, situations or images inappropriate for children that I didn't use of age, definitely not. Going to save and continue. And then this will go to the next page and take us there. Now, you can choose to either use your own ISBN. So if you are uploading to Ingram Spark, then you're welcome to choose them or assignee of free Katie pay ISBN. For this example. Use the freak ADP ISBN. But usually I'll get my own Ingram, my own ISBN because I'm uploading to Ingram Spark as well in the same eyes being can be used for the Ingram book and also the KDE people. Whereas if you use the kVp ISBN, you can only use it ISBN for Amazon tight API. You can't use it anywhere else. It's the freeway I'm giving you, so you must not use it in your OS. But for this example, I will choose the free one. And I'm going to have more ISBN there. Now when we go down public hashing date, I'm just going to leave that for the moment. You don't need to click a certain date that it was gonna be lost unless you have an idea. Usually the publishing Tom can be anywhere from 48 hours to seven days, even sometimes ten days for books to be confirmed and available under Amazon card a P Once I've been reviewed. Now this is where we do that print options. So I'm gonna go the premium color interior with what PIPA for these children's book. If you had another book and you just want a black and white, we can choose out with Crane paper, with white paper, we could do stand the color. The premium collages, Saints be a slightly thicker pipe out and Beta in much better quality. Let's have a look here at the trim size. Now. I'm going to choose my eye 0.5 by 0.5 inch. You've got a choice of the other square book here as well. Now these are other trim sizes you can choose depending on what your book size is. Yours may not be the 8.5 by 8.5, but that's what I've been using to create the book as part of the course. I'm choosing that one. Blade settings. This is where the manuscripts, where your internal document, if you added the 0.0125 to the width and the 0.25 to the heart, then you need to choose bleed. And it's a PDF document only. The cover. We can choose other mat or glossy. If it's a book that's going to be used a lot and might have some grubby fingers on it. Gloss off. Bonnie is better just because it can be easily cleaned, whereas the net tends to be bit stickier. I'm going to choose glossy for my children's book. We now need to do our manuscript. This is where we had to have our files ready to go. Now, you can upload a doc, a doc RTF. But I tend to use the PDF file, which is much better. So I want to do is go to upload paperback manuscripts, and I'm going to choose a PDF. So it brings up my files we created earlier in the course. I did a paper back room. This is the interior. Needs to go to this one just here and got open. We just wait for these to upload. It can take a few minutes, so just be patient and let it upload. You'll see it come up in a moment to say it has been announced, It's processing the fall. Next thing we want to do is I put cover. Now you can use cover creator by tidy paper it, I found it very hard to navigate through and crediting decent. I'd rather credit line. So upload a caveat already, have in PDF. Finally, we do that. We've got to upload your cover on to select one of these. I'm gonna do this one here, which is my paperback that are created on book bulb. I'm going to go open. Again. It uploads and we just need to wait for the process to occur. Now importantly, once this is uploaded, then what we need to do is do a launch per viewer. What's important to do during this process? Before you click Launch, pray viewer, whites until the clade where it says processing your file. You don't want to go to launch preview before that happens because it will take a lot, lot longer if you do that. So just be patient. It could take five, maybe seven minutes depending on your Internet speed, it could take a bit longer or shorter. So just be patient and I'll come back once it is loaded and show you what you need to wait for before we click Launch preview. Now it's all ticked. Processing is being done. Now, the next stage is doing just to ensure that everything that we've been creating fits this specific locations of TDAP could get an error on Mott, get an era which will not need to fix, fixed on the manuscript because it could be elements that it's detecting that are going to be wrought when you do upload it. So let's check if there is an error. I'll need to go back and fix that error before moving any further. Let's go to launch preview now. It's saying that I didn't pick up any errors. Now sometimes it can look a little bit blurry, but that is just the KD pn, not your book. So just be mindful of that. Now the key things we're looking for here. To ensure that we don't have any writing these ads, all these red line here. So let's have a look around and check the documents so you can see it's quite close to the red line that runs around here that's following night is still in the boundary. We keep running. It's written very, very close there, but it's still in. We keep going around. Just carry on the border net. There is. It's fine still. And the back description doesn't cover the ISBN. So everything looks good. Now, the next thing we need to do is go to the pages. What we need to do is wait for this to load. Now, that is not going to work. See how that falls outside that line there. What we need to do is to go back and our need to move that just so that my writing doesn't go over that law because once it's manually checked, that can sometimes pick that up and then you'll need to re-do it anyway. So you may also get it right the first time. Need to re-do that bit, but let's just have a couple of other pages just to make sure there's no other elements on need to redo. All the writing is fun there. That's fine. This week get to see the layout of book, of the book as well. Everything is in the lawn there. That's great. Just keep checking. That's good. So each saints to be all really, really good. What I'll do is I'll go through the rest of the book and just check it and make sure that there's no writing that he's going to be falling outside of these because otherwise it will get a rejection. And I've got to the back of the book now. And that's all fine. It's just that first. Let's go back to page two. Page three. Notice back here. What I need to do is go and fix this, re-upload it, and then make sure that's right. So let me do that quickly now. I've just gone back into Canada quickly and move the writing. And I've decided I'm going to go and apply this fall again two kVp just to ensure it doesn't get a rejection because it's over though, that's special red lines. So let's go back and do that. Now. I have just going to exit Print Preview and I'm going to upload that new manuscript documents. I go back to upload paperback manuscripts. I've updated that now. Let's do that. White for that to upload. And again, we wait until it stops, is assign processing your file. And we just had the green ticks and not that writing there. So I'm just going to wait patiently for that to complete. The fall is now correctly uploaded. I'm gonna go back to launch preview and check it another time to ensure that now it's not gonna be covering the red line that could get it rejected by Amazon. Cardiac pain stuck at the front and the back cavity here. Then I'll go to this page that had the issue. So now it is clear and I've got no writing over it and the rest of the book is fun because I've checked that before. Everything is ready for mind. It says that the quality check didn't pick up any issues. And it's got all the details here that I've entered previously as well. What we do here is approved. Once we've done the proof, we now go on to the next section and that covers the processing. So we scroll down, make sure we got everything that we need. These talks about the summary of what it's gonna cost using premium pipa to do the printing of approximately 40 pages. So it's $3.65. So what we do is save and continue. And that's American dollars. What we do is save and continue. And this will take us to the next page. We now need to determine if we want a book available in all territories and worldwide. I always choose, yes, unless you had a book that was particularly for a country or for a certain language, probably knock apply some meat leaving his Amazon.com, but you can change it to any one of these ones. Now, the market price or the processing, the books that I've been looking at, a roughly $11.99. So if we do that, what we do is put that into place. This will provide the printing cost, which was 365. The right, which is what the author gets us a 40%, 60 percent split between Amazon cardiac pay and the author or the publisher, 60%. So I would receive a $3.54 royalty for every book that sold. They can do expanded distribution. Now if you didn't have plans to upload your book to another platform like Ingram Spark, then you can click that button. If you are uploading a book to England, spark, don't click that button. I'm going to leave it because I will be uploading these book to Ingram spark. Now you can adjust the processing for each of the different areas. If you wanted us to leave it, that's fine. You might want to change these two items is 99 for the UK. I pound ninety nine. And then it'll show you those. Then we scroll down, you can see all the different pricing here. You might want to do attend those 99 for each of these. And it goes all the way down at.com that i u and then the last one as well. Now, I'm not sure which NLS. These are all the different pricings that you've got organized. Now the last thing you would need to do is click here, publish your paperback book and you are ready to launch onto Amazon cardiac p. Now what happens from that point in time is that you receive an e-mail when you book has been authorized and clean by the internal review for Amazon card API. And it will say Your book, he's now alive. You can click on this link and video book. Again, it can take anywhere from 48 hours to experience two weeks before three weeks. So they can take a bit of time depending on the time that you do upload your book. But expect anywhere from four to five days is generally the time span that you can expect fewer book to be cleared. They might pick up a couple of small areas that unique challenge. That's why the book previewing component is such an important part. And you've got everything ready to go. Once you're ready to publish. Good luck. And that's how you do upload your book to Amazon card API. 41. Using Artificial Inteligence For Creating and Publishing Chldrens Books on Amazon KDP: In this updated lesson, I wanted to provide my thoughts and feelings and a bit of information around using artificial intelligence for creating books for Amazon, kVp, but even other bookstores as well online book platforms. So what is my take on it? Well, let me go through a few things about how you might be able to use AI to create books, but also some strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. My own swat analysis on where I think I might be going to for your book creation process. Let's get into a presentation now. I'll take you through a few different AI platforms that are currently quite hot at the moment. And then how I think that I might transform the way that we do self-publishing. To start with, let's look at a couple of different, or three different AI platforms that you might be familiar with. And I'm going to focus more on chat GPT than the others because I don't have as much experience with the others. But let's go into that now. We've got chat GPT, which is our Open AI, which I'll jump on to in a minute. Then these mid journey. And there's also Jasper. These are the three that I'm familiar with. I'm sure there's probably plenty more that will come out in the near future. However, I am getting more familiar with chat GPT, so I'll be covering more of that in this lesson. And why is it you can utilize that to your advantage when you're self-publishing. What I thought I would do to try and create some structure around this. I just went to Amazon and I've just written children's storybook. And if I go down here I can see unicorn book. And there's a couple of other books, mermaid books. Let's, let's focus on, sorry, a unicorn book. And let's see what we can gather and create a story from that. So if we go back to check GBT and they say, If we, if we had create a 300 word, roaming, roaming, a story about a unicorn, learns to flop. Okay, so let's see what this comes up with and find out if this could create a children's picture storyboard. Once upon a time in a magical land, sophie lived a unicorn with a mean of silver here. She gazed in fields dance in the sun, but one thing was missing. She had not begun to spread wings and saw through the sky. She dreamed of flying and learning how to fly. She asked the other creatures big and small, but they all laughed and said she couldn't get all. The unicorn was sad and felt quite low. She thought you'd never learn this skill. But then one day she lay in the grass, she saw a bird soaring past so fast. She closed her eyes and visualize the flight. And when she opened them, she saw a beautiful her wings. It's sprouted and she was ready to saw. She flipped them once, twice, then off she did so up in the sky sheets world and she spun with a Winona in Maine and the sun at her tongue, she laughed with joy and felt so alive as she flew higher and higher. She didn't want to dive from that day on the unicorn fruit fly. And she spread your wings up in, up, in the sky so high. She amazed all creatures with a Grayson of flare and they all cheapy parade as she passed through the air. The unicorn learn that anything is possible if you believe in yourself and make it unavoidable. So whenever she felt, she felt down or just wants to play, she spent her wings and takes to this guy for a joyful SLI. So some of these, I really like, some of it needs some work. But this was created in about 20 s. And what I'd need to do is adapt some of these to make sure that it made sense and went through the process of making sure grammatically it was okay. And that it does actually make sense. But you can see the power of this and how quickly it came up with a story about a unicorn that learns to fly. But what would happen if you copied that exact line? Would you get the exact same story? And someone else is going to get exactly the same story. So that's where the trouble may delay. If someone created a YouTube video, e.g. about a back reading a book about a uniform unicorn that could fly, would everyone start to get the same story? Now, let's have a look. You can refine it and you can change it. So you could have a change to a 250 story. And then what happens? That should have been 250. Let's stop that. Ray brought rewrite 250, we're storing. And let's try it again. Thinking. What I might have to do is adjust this guy down here. It's going to want to see the change I just saw here, to spread your wings and soul through the sky. She dreamed of flying and learning how to fly. She asked the creatures, but they just laughed and said, flies off the media, especially in your head. The unicorn was sad but you didn't lose hope. She closed her eyes and visualize a way to cope. So you can see how it actually has changed things based on the word count. So you can do that as well. Now I'm going to keep moving through this. Otherwise it can actually use chat GPT, or an AI would be for keywords. Keywords for a children's unicorn, storybook. Let's see. It starts to generate those. We can stop generating. Or we might want to have a title, a book about a unicorn, lens to fly called Jim. Jim mom and the flying unicorn, a tale of adventure and self-discovery. So I could say rewrite two AT this monophonic or an adventure in shorten it very, very short. You can have different ways you do. So. You can see very, very quickly, I've been able to come up with a story. I can show that, I can lengthen it. I can then if you do a sales copy, so if you want a description of the book, a description of a book for a unicorn. Mama, to flow. Here we go. Following your mom are curious and determined unicorn agenda, she discovers her ability to fly. This heartwarming tale explores themes or self-belief and perseverance is Gemma overcomes challenges and spreads of wings in the sky. Join Jumana on a magical adventure and be inspired to reach for the stars. So it's actually very, very good. So that's how you can use chat GBT or OpenAI. It's extremely powerful, but you've just got to be careful about putting your own special touch to it. And that's what I see. The problem with these potentially is that they might be shortcuts, that they can be taken. So just be very, very wary of that. But within a few minutes, There's some powerful ways you can use it towards your book. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Now, I'm not gonna go into great detail about this next one, mid journey or do your own research on it. But from what I see, you can actually get II created illustrations done very, very quickly. But all I'm going to say on this one is just be very careful on the copyright side of things and the ownership of it. Check the terms and conditions, but do your own research about meat journey. And I think you'll be amazed at what the ability of this system has to generate illustrations for a book. The last one is called jasper. You can also use this for our new images and marketing copy. So again, I would look into what you can do with this. You can get a free account to begin with. And you can generate using stuff for art, and it will generate it for you. So this one, Let's have a look at the different creating content. You can Rock content in different languages. So if you had a book that you wanted to get translated in different languages and help you out. Now, one last thing, I just wanted to mention that meet journey, that is a paid plan of 30 dollar paid plan. I believe it is. It might change by the time you actually go to it and sign-in. But with the $30 paid plan, did you actually can get access and rights to the use of images. But there is CO license, which means that you don't have full ownership of those illustrations if you're using the journey, but please check out the terms and conditions before you start using it. The commercial use of those images with any of these AR technology that you might be using. But they're three. So we've got our chat, GPT, we've got meet journey, and we've got chess. But I did a three that I've become aware of that you can start using if you intend to use AI towards your book creation process. Now let me cover off the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities. It's what we call our swat analysis. Strengths. I can be a massive time-saver. The time it will save you could be significant. Any Saudi illustration with a unicorn book, how quickly that story was develop for me and for the majority, for the good part of it was actually very good. Could be huge cost saver. So you might like to use it for illustrations. And if you can pay a 30 dollar fee, e.g. for meat journey to create illustrations for you, rather than engaging in Illustrator. That could be a pathway you choose to go down. But also in regards to copy or sales copy and writing, the amount of time site is significant. For that. Next thing, it cast the net wider than ever before for niche ideas, keyword sales, copy, and seeking additional data. So it's becoming the opportunity for us to gather information that we can use is becoming even broader every single day. The more input we provide these systems, the more powerful they will become. One of the weaknesses we could be in breach would infringe on copyright and trademark law. That's a serious thing you need to look into and make sure you make the right decision and check everything first. So there is a gray area when it comes to ownership of inflammation then then you are opportunities for the commercial use of that information for now and in the future. So imagine if you had a book, you created it using say, meat journey, making a lot of money. And then I came to you and say, well, by the way, we've got a co license. We actually have partial ownership of this book as well, because the illustrations, we want you to start paying us now. So think carefully about that. And we could reduce your appetite potentially learn absorb information when it's so readily available and cats thinking Tom down significantly gain its pros and cons about that. What are the opportunities? When should we embrace the technology that we have at our disposal? We need to think about how things are going to change for you. These systems becoming more intelligent and we need to continue to be at the forefront of a new technology. So I think we should embrace it. You may not always agree with it, but you do need to embrace it and move forward and determine how it might benefit you. So I will provide a whole new advancement when it comes to the book creation process. Uses cave abilities at a minimum of keyword research and nice niche research, and assisting with titles and subtitles. You don't use them directly, just allowed to come up with a few different options for you to consider and then put your own personal touch on it. What are the threats? Well, it's kind of a technology will have a significant impact on the way that we create a regional entirely books and resources. So I could impact the professionals. Such should be professionals like illustrators, copywriters, artists, many other freelancers with some of the work can be done in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the cost. I'm not suggesting that the quality may be as high, but some people might choose using the new technology versus a human being. There may be a huge influx of new and Facebook's flooding Katie pay and other publishing platforms with this new technology, the market may become even more competitive than these right now. So you need to think about a few things and these are my thoughts. How you think of your customer. What would they want? They want to create a children's picture storybook where the storylines being cow created by AI. Illustrations with G personally buy a book that you knew was created by II. It was about a penguin that didn't know how to swim. Would you buy that or you move away from it? You just need to think about your customers. I often create books, but there is still a critical phrase of a successfully launching our books. So anyone to load up books, who will ever see them if they don't know about them. So the launch of your book processes critical. So don't ever lose sight of quality versus quantity. And the human factor of feelings and emotions is highly unique to human beings. So we need to make sure we tap into that. It's something that an I-I can't yet do. So let's let's make sure we take advantage of that and put that into your writing in the way you create your books and your illustrations. If you're using illustrations in your book. And finally, please be very, very careful and consider any legal consequences or ramifications using AI technology. So don't be surprised if K p real line in terms of business, but book publishing based on methods used with a supportive II. What I'm saying is you need to think of the long term. Don't just take shortcuts using AI and get compromise your future within publishing because you're doing that. So there are a couple of things that I wanted to bring up using IRF4 book creation. And there are a few more thoughts that are orderings you to be aware of before you move forward with it. So everyone's going to have their own opinion about where they feel it. I will come into play for book publishing. Now, for me, I think I'm going to different ways that I can embrace it. Now. Not every part of AI I agree with, but it's moving at such a rapid rate that I think it's important to keep up with new developments as they come through. There has probably quite a few things that do concerning worry me about the self-publishing space with AI, particularly the volume of books that people might start creating with the advancement of time-saving methods of creating books. But there are other ways that we can utilize it. As I've mentioned in the presentation, that will certainly be to our advantage. I just don't want it to take over elements of quality versus quantity. That's my biggest concern. And I also know that we need to think of the way that our customers are thinking, which I covered it early in the presentation. So hopefully that helps you. There is a lot to play out in this space. Keep up-to-date with how you can use it to your advantage without taking advantage of customers by providing them with poor quality or my books. Just try and be as original as you can to provide the best experience you can for your customers. 42. An Introduction to Ingram Spark: Welcome to this lesson again to introduce you to Ingram Spark. And Ingram Spark is another global distribution opportunity that you have. So let me introduce that a bit in more depth for you right now. Some of these lessons, I'll go into a bit more detail. The ink from Spark and the opportunities that you have, the global distribution, Ingram spark to have over 30 thousand distribution partners across the world. So I do have a big footprint to get your book out the odd based on income Spock and lots of books up now for a couple of years. And it actually has helped significantly with the branding that I have. And importantly, a lot more voxels rather than just having my books on Ingram spark. The disadvantage, I guess, is that you do have to pay for an ISBN. But if you think of the long-term sales opportunities for your books, purchase of an ISBN is very insignificant, long-term opportunity you will have. Now there are limitations on the cons of books that you can upload to income Spark. Do you go into that in a moment with the video that I'm gonna be showing you. But just know that Ingram Spark is another opportunity for you to think about the why that your book can be branded across different marketplaces. And always consider not just having all your books on one platform because he's something happened to that account, for example, Canada a PE, then you'd lose all your income with your books. You just need to make sure that you're giving yourself an opportunity to get as much exposed usually can, but also minimize risk when you're publishing to. The video I'm gonna be showing you in a moment, does apply to a book that is a low content book. It's not a children's book, but it still gives you an idea to look at the platform, how I upload that book. And therefore, when you do want to upload your children's book, you can follow that same process and you just need to make sure that you're choosing the right size, the right Piper top. And you also include the description and information there as well, but that's all covered in this video. I hope you enjoyed it. Let's have a look. The main platform of Ingram Spark we'd before we get into more features. If you would like to expand beyond KD payout, definitely recommend you look at using Ingram Spark. If we go to how it works, you can look at different means of expanding your distribution of books that help get recognition for your brand. And it's another platform offers e-books, paperbacks and how backs. But there are, there is an upload pricing schedule you need to know about. But there are some workarounds in regards to this as well. You can do print in a book for $49 and print book only for $49 and a book for $25. If you scroll down, you need to own your own ISBN, which is International Standard Book Number. And I'll talk about that a bit more. You need to have your own cover interior files. You need to have your email address and PI methods as well. So you can do that. You just shows you there's different tutorials about learning how to self-publish in distribution. But I do have over 30 thousand different platforms or distribution channels so that I can help you. And you can look at different calculators it downloads as experts. It can help you. What you would need to do is create an account and just follow through the process of doing that. But let me jump onto my camp. And I'll show you some of the successor of how within-group Spark. Then I'm going to actually show you a few things you need to know about before you can see that with a publishing with Ingram Spock, he's gonna be suitable for you or not. When you log onto the platform, you have a solid penalty in here and you can choose different things about your titles and all the titles that you have. And you can have reports which is generated. So we're gonna go into print sales report just here. And I'm going to choose print sales report just here. You've got different units that you can choose from because Ingram spark of a distribution across the US, the UK, and Australia. And you can pick your date range. If we did. Let's just go back to say Let's do some August 1st and let's do through to the end of October 30th of October. We're going to look at the US area to start with, and we do US dollar now, down here you got two options. We can't keep both tick till you get to choose one. So POD is print on demand, and Global Connect is when they can actually through two different markets like Germany, France, easily by distribute your books through those areas as well. But you don't generally tend to get many styles from that. So you just do print on demand. And if you wanted. Longer periods of time, you can request an email with the PDF. But if you just want a small period of time, welcome month up to three months, you can just do a screen display. You can also just filter by different ISBN and totals. So let's do that period of time that we've got just here and see what results. This brings up four more books. Do submit. Now this will bring up all the different bookstores. Got, you've got the quantity sold, any returns or returns can occur, then I'd be damaged or wasn't exactly what the customer was looking for. You've got the NIC, quality, quantity, styles, returns, net sales printing charge. And then you got a new set of recovery which is not charged. Then you've got your publisher compensation. And that's the amount that you receive as an author publishing through the Ingram Spark platform. Let's scroll down now. These few books that are selling well across mine here, and you keep going down. This is just for that period of time than I did. So these are the books all over that period of so-called non-linear 19 books. They were 35 returns, which is actually quite high. I don't normally get that many. I'm not sure what happened in that space. Sometimes bookstores can buy your books, then they can actually sell them. They can return them. Then you sort of have to pay for that return charge, which is you do get an option or whether you want to allow returns or not. That's up to the author. But sometimes if you don't allow returns, then you don't get into bookstores are Brick and Mortar Bookstores. You then have the total styles. So 194 book's title styles of 564, $4,643. But then you've got the charge out for the printing. But this lift ME with publisher income of 2350 US dollars. And I have not had to touch any days. Books is no marketing, no Amazon marketing, nothing at all. So it's just really passive. Once you create your books and load them up, then you get that passive income. That's a good amount of revenue to generate over that period of time. And of course, over the whole year, it adds up to be quite a significant number. But let me show you a few things you need to consider about Ingram Spark as well before you determine whether it's Roth for you. Let me quickly cover off before we go into this any further bit, wire would publish through income. Spark wanted to spread more passive income streams. I also, I increase my exposure to more customers by using Ingram Spock and not just guide API. If kVp changed its algorithm or could limit more potential and this could create significant income adjustments. And also I don't want one online platform having major control over more publishing decisions. You might start, we've cut a paying, get quite a few books going and get some income happening. But either the longer-term, it is wise to diversify. So that's why I do also published with Ingram Spark. What are the considerations we require an ISBN and the ISBN is the international standard business SRE book number. And that is an option you can purchase in bulk from a group called Thorpe BellKor. Each ISP and you can purchase an individual one and a mop be something really high, like 50 or $60. But you can buy in bulk for, I think, for example, in Australia, I can get 100 ISBN for 490 Australian dollars, which is equivalent to about 350 US dollars or a 100 or ISBN. So it is considerably cheaper when you buy in bulk. The cost to upload Ingram Spark, as you saw, is 49 US dollars for your book. Remember that that investment will come back to you if you saw my income report just before and I'm generating quite a significant amount of money will have a long-term effect. Keeps on going well, I'm well and truly covering the cost of uploading. Formally, they had free applied codes, but there is a workaround to cover that $49 US cost. What is that? Well, let's throw a group called ally, which is the Alliance of independent authors. And I'll show, I'll put the link in the description of this lesson. But at present, as of December 2021, that membership is approximately a $120 per year at these prison time. Again, I may change this up, so you need to check it out for yourself. But currently they're allowing five free uploads per month. So you pretty much get $244 of value with those five free uploads, or $2940 per year by Pine at $120 an image. Definitely look into it as acetyl lay the description below for ally. And you can just check it out and you can get those. You get a unique code to upload every time two increments spark. Just have a look at that. But there is something very, very important you need to know though, before we consider uploading to Ingram spark. You are not permitted to upload no content books, the blank line journals or anything with nothing within the interior pretty much. But you can upload hot quality low content books. That's at a minimum. We're not talking about high-quality. You need to be I'm pretty sure they're gonna be meeting the quality control because I do have a content integrity unit that checkbooks that are uploaded. And you just have to be mindful that you don't want to be spending, for example, the money for an ISBN and to upload your book, for it to be knocked back. And you can't continue to upload and have a global presence with England spark. That's something to definitely consider. And you need to make sure that you are going to be providing. I've had literally tracing books and things like that that have been sold really well. Gift books that have sold very well. And you just need to make sure that they meet the content integrity guidelines as well. And I'll provide a link to the content integrity guidelines as well as part of this lesson. And that's just something to consider. But if you were to upload to Ingram, sparkle does show you the very easy upload process and how that works as well. The upload a title, you just go to the homepage alveolar dashboard once you saw it in and you go to add a title. Now this will vary, easy to walk, walk you through it. You can choose either the print in a book, depending if that's the option. Print book only sign price and enable kindly twenty-five dollars. So you click on that. And then Isa, Yes, I have all my files. So you would do that. And we said no a lot, just say the available options for creating files. Now, but I went to my total information, submit the false lighter. I can do that as well. Let's let's go to this one. And you just go print jacket. You can either choose. When you're talking about the print jacket and okada, that is just your mind cava, and then you've got your interior as well. So if you had an 8.5 by 11, It's the sine cover dimensions that you'd have to pay for that. And if you're using, for example, book bolt, that sign fall would apply to your upload for Ingram Spark. And same with the interior. You just clicked both of those. And you have an option here of either printing, distributing, and selling the book globally, or only printing the book. That means that if you had a, if you designed a book for a business, for example, we created a partnership. We created a book just for a business or organization and it was exclusive to them. You would only print the book, which means that you could go into your dashboard and organized, say, 50 copies. And it wouldn't be available to anyone else globally, just to you to be able to print. Let's see option you have here. But if we wanted to do global distribution, we click that and go continue. Name. What we do is complete the details. So you do your title, your language, so you have different languages. So you can do those languages as well. Plan two different languages you can do. I'll upload the books for multiple different languages including Spanish, French, German, and they've all had some good success. Then you include your eyes begin number here. So that's the number that you purchase through group block balcony. Or in Australia, it's Thorpe a backup. But some countries even give you a free ISBN, like Canada. This lesson are provided in regards to the course. That ISBN and with the innate, the Monod thing you choose the publishing rights. Then if you click here, it's important click that because included a subtotal here. So I can include other information like series name or series number. If you've got an addition and additional edition numbers nine, sorry domain, then you can do the authors and contributors. So if you were the author, then you can just put your first name and last name. But if you, if you had a brand name and your code on the Creative Book Club, then you heard you just say the creative and then you'd have book club in this area, there was a brand name for example. And then you can also add different data files. So country, any biography information contributed prior work, all that information can go in there. Then when it comes to categorizing your title, you can have the imprint of your brand name if you like, months already just in there. And then you choose the subjects is the categories. So if we were doing, let's say a GIF book for grandparents or your grandmother, then if you just did grandparents, do you search, then we'll give you that and you choose that. And you add it, and you get to add three. You might have another one might be motherhood. And you choose that one. And then you can choose one more than the audience depending on what your subjects are, you would then choose that. So tried or general is just adults. What we can do younger age group. But if we chose that one, it would say that we know how to choose those two there because it needs to be for juvenile if it's juvenile just there, but you also have young adult categories as well. So if you're just doing it for adults, just choose that one. You might have different textbook, so you're doing remote, just do try general. Then you can add different fields as well. So you might have the call thermos subjects, which is sort of Neijing down in regards to the different areas. So you can add different areas which can be important to find your books. Don't ever really include the table of contents. I just normally lay that review quotes. If you had some quotes or reviews he'd received, definitely add them here. And net because that just adds the social proof element. Then you will need to include your description. Now you don't include an HTML description is it's got an ability to rot or to add. So my grandmother, whatever it might be. And then you have, you can just make it big. You can do the different sizes as well. And you might already had this been a format on Word document. And then what you do is just format it once it's in here as well. I'll give you an example, just get one of the descriptions that we've used previously. So I thought I just grabbed one that we've used earlier on in one of their sessions about book descriptions. What I would do is just copy that. And then I'll go to the screen. I'll just paste it. Then what I'll do is go through and just make sure it's meeting so if we wanted large or we can even do the heading, sorry, the heating needs to be so hitting three might be even be hitting on getting four. And then you can start to add different things as well. You can make sure you space it out. You can add bold. You just spread it through. And then what you then do is do the K words now the keywords you can use for any of those keywords used at the backend when you're doing a description and all those seven backend keywords when you're doing your loading to cardiac pain, you could just go back and refer to those and you just keep adding the keywords. You can actually add a bat, a 100 different keywords and maximize it uses many as you can. So it's a great tool to be able to do that. And you just keep putting a semicolon in-between each of those. And then once you've done that, then you go, actually, we can add more fields to stand here. I can have a short description. What are normally do is just copy these and I'll paste it down here and just make it usually hitting four. Yep. And then you've got 250, pretty much characters used, 191. So you can just add anything that you think might be good as a short description for your title they want you to do is once you've added all these details, then you click continue, and that will take you to the next page. Once we come to the next page, then true. Choose your trim size. So it just depends on the book that you've decided. And you might have a bit of a look at these are the different options you have available. So very similar to pay. What I'm going to choose is, let's go down here on going to be doing the eye 0.5, but I 0.5, that CSR is gonna be choosing five. Then you can choose all the black watercolor for this particular book on gonna do color. Then you get to choose other standard, standard color, 70 or premium. Now this is an assign Piper top. These two, if it was a book where someone's rotting in it, then you need that extra thickness or even coloring so that the color color doesn't move through to the next page. So I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do standard PIPA on this one. You choose all the paperback or hardback, so you get those two options. I'm gonna do Paperback. Perfect bands eat only option you get, you get to choose your cover finish glosso net cava. So I'm gonna choose gloss. Then if you do the pitch camp, my page is 42 pages. Then it gives you your printing cost. Then what you need to do is do the retail price. So once you calculate it, so for a book like this, it's going to be more expensive than height API. So you need to factor that in because it was what I call a wholesale discount. With that's the discount that you offer for re Tyler's to sell your book. Now, I'm going to do a price of ten, not E5. If I do 1099, if I do the wholesale discount to do it at 50, 50% percent actually, I wanted to do 55. And I'll show you because I do say that for bricks-and-mortar stores, you have more of a chance of selling into those stores If you have a high wholesale discount. Now return IU wanting to have this book ethers are custom issue and I returned it. Are you going to permit that now? Yes. Deliver which means you have to issue Pi for that or Yes. Destroy and only two, yes, Destroy. This gives you a compensation of a $1.31 thing. You just go through the markets and do the sign. We're just gonna do this all the way through. We have the same again, so we choose those. They're all done. Just making sure you've got the rot, profiting with the maths here. Just know that the entire easy, exclusive GST in Australia that will organize a processing for you automatically are normally I'm compensation is 0, I'm not sure what it's going to 0 if we remove that down to 50. Before we got there we go. Just keep moving up zeros. So we need to make sure these price, if we go 1299 and we did a 50, just need to make sure you're not in the negative. I'm gonna go 55. You might want to even have it 1199 just I aim for between a $1.17. $2 is pretty much what I feel sells the best. You understand is to destroy like citable, the process enable the book inside. You can choose other, these two as well, print publication we're going to do as to die. We didn't just going to choose that. You can do more fields to optimize, but on only lay that site and can continue. Then this is where we actually upload the interior information. So I'll do that and then we need to do is continue. So let me quickly just do that and pause the video. And you'll see that I've now uploaded more documents. Now we got to continue. Then what it does. It does the total metadata, metadata validation. Now sometimes this comes up with a warning. I just ignore the warning if it comes up because I've never ever had an issue regarding the content or the United quality of the images that I've been using. It is white for these validation, to confirm for me that everything's fine. As you can see, it gives you a bit of a warning, but I'll never had an issue regards to more books when it's got that issue. And then I hereby authorized in group to go ahead with it. Yes. Proceed. Then it gives you the opportunity to put in your promotional code. So this is when, if you don't have it up, it costs you twenty-five dollars, twenty four dollars coming to $49. But I'm going to enter my code for my through the alliance with alive or Ali, the outlines of the authors independence program that I'm part of. So I'm gonna do that then on going to agree. So once I get the code organized, so I'll do that now. Once I'm on a lie, I go to approved services discounts and deals, the AI product distribution. And then you scroll down and you'll see where it has England Spock in a moment. Just wide for this to come up. Here we are. Free title setup. We've got more details and net will take me to where my code is. So I can't show you that code unfortunately, but I'll it at that now where it offers five free uses per can per month. I'll do that and I'll add that code to the applied process. Now I've added more promotional code and it's at 0. Then I got a gray. And once everything is fine, then I click Submit. That is the process that you need to go through for the Ingram Spark. And that's another wire can continue to generate styles for more books. Sound now just clicked Submit. We just wait for it to process. Now it says the total was excessively submitted and now just wait for it to be approved. And then I'll get I'll get an email and I need me to check the interior and the capital, make sure that I'm happy with it. Then I prove it on my dashboard. And it's either two in group two then distributed to all the different networks. So that's how you upload the title to Ingram Spock. That is one of the complete process of paying out to upload to Ingram Spark. So just remember the key things that you need to have an ISBN. You can either pay the $49 upload or join an author's independent group log ally that potentially can provide you with codes. And you need to make sure that they really good, high-quality, low content books or the minimum B can't upload no content books. But as you can see, few prepared to get them uploaded to this platform. And it's not the only one. There's another platform called Lulu. You can also look into for being able to distribute, distribute your books globally and not just on KP. I'm hoping this value carried a lot of value for you and it gives you other options for your printing across the markets. No matter where in the world people are. 43. Section 7 Introduction Marketing and Advertising: Welcome to section number seven. It is about marketing, advertising, and it's a component that many authors trombone pass, but it's such a critical component. Because when you book goes live, you should consider that a bat, the 50% mark. Because if you don't get your book into the hands of customers or they don't know about you book, you won't sell any books. Therefore, when your book does go live, you need to have it by asic launch strategy implies and you need to have some white of marketing your book. Now there are a number of different strategies you can implement. And across the next few lessons, I'm gonna be showing you a few of these techniques, few tips that you can utilize to really try and get your hands into the customer. Because I want your children's picture storybook to be successful and be sold. Therefore, watch the next few lessons and hopefully you'll learn some grinding through mentioned. 44. Amazon Advertising: In this lesson, I'm going to introduce you to Amazon advertising, or commonly known as Amazon ads. Now, Amazon ads can be a very effective way of getting notebook to more people and to get it noticed. So let me identify or show you what Amazon advertising might look like if you just happen to be a customer scrolling through the books of Amazon and you'll see that they sponsored ads for pop-up. And that is actually public height publishes or alters advertising through Amazon ads. So let me show you a few examples. Follows on Amazon and are just did a search and toddlers books about the beach. You'll see these pop up. That's actually sponsorship. Then you can say how it is sponsored. Rod here. These, these are Y4 publishes authors to get the book on page one of the search results and two, Beta position where customers are more likely to see it. You can see it's ones there, another one, is there a name there is now advertising their keychain down. We might say another one, he said another. That's another spots called sponsored brands. It's a bit harder to create if you keep going down here. Another one where it says sponsored. So for the customer, they might not even realize that it's actually an ad, but it does cost a bit of money when you try to get your book featured in these spots and spiced on a bidding system. So the higher your bead, the mole, luckily your bookies to feature. However, if you spend too much, they need, could erode all the profitability of your book. Now, because it is a bidding system, the heart, the bid, then if your bid is the highest, you will get the number one place. But every time a customer clicks on your, the link just here, you'd have to pay. For example, if you had $0.70 per click, as I bid, you would have to pi $0.70 if I clicked on this rod now and it took me through to the book. So it can get expensive. But let me just show you a bit of an introduction through Amazon adds some key information and some tutorials that I would recommend that you watch to get more of a look and feel for Amazon advertising. What I want to do is cover some key points about Amazon advertising. Things you need to be careful of, things that you might be should consider doing. So I've gone into some depth about what these key points. So firstly, ads can significantly boost your chances to rank your keywords. Your keywords are those words that customers are searching for. And if you do advertise, it can help because you start getting styles, the algorithm of Amazon logbook styles, therefore, your book starts to float to the top of the search results. Amazon had many marketplaces in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany. Plus minimal, each require a separate account. When you create an Amazon ads accounts, you'd need to create one in each marketplace. The USA is by far the most comprehensive, sorry, competitive market. It's probably going to be like that. Because just the sheer volume of customers at Amazon have at Amazon.com. If you book, he's no good. Amazon ads will not solve that problem. There is no point advertising and marketing and heavily marketing and spending a lot of money on a bad book, no matter what you invest in advertising, it would solve that problem. Firstly or sorry. Lastly, the ongoing maintenance is important to what they call optimize and avoid either spending. Because Amazon advertising is a bidding situation. If you don't stop any what we call Amazon marketing links, then you can start to run out of money quite quickly. You also need to ensure that you are regularly going in and checking your advertising just to make sure that everything is going as you wanted to. Therefore, why use Amazon ads? Well, Amazon ads can, as I mentioned the previous slide, Dr. some initial styles. The most styles you get in the first 30 days, the Beta your book will perform either longer-term. If you can get those Amazon ads working effectively for you to draw the styles in, Amazon will lock that. I push your book up and you start to get on the page one to page two. Now many customers tend to scroll beyond page two, page three, when they're looking for something that may not say it on page one, and that's as far as I go. First. Next one is increases relevance for your keywords. When you put your keywords into your title, your subtitle, and you save them backend keywords. Your Amazon, Amazon advertising will help with relevance for those keywords. They are effective that Y2 increases rave reviews do two styles. And reviews are important for social proof. The more reviews you have. The most social proof you have, the most styles you start to generate. Therefore, the ads will help get more customers to buy your book and then hopefully provide those reviews. And lastly, marketing through Amazon advertising is direct to the Amazon customer. It's rare that you have such an opportunity where a customer is going to be on the site. And I see your sponsored ad rot there and I can click straight on it. If you are advertising through a third party, then it might be a bit hard for you because you then need to get the customer to click on the link. They need to have an Amazon account. I then need to login, get your book. They impart, and have everything organized. So if a customer is already scrolling through Amazon, more than likely they'll have an account. Therefore, to convert the customer to a purchase is going to be a much better way of doing it than trying to avatars through other means. So let me introduce you to a little bit of terminology and metrics for Amazon advertising. You'll see when you are doing or Amazon advertising, you're getting impressions. So this is when you're at ease. His flight to customers. Clicks is when a customer clicks on your ad. Ctr means a click through right. Say Pay see is a cost-per-click. Styles is the title revenue generated from adds. Another piece of information you might come across or you will come across whenever Amazon advertising is something you do is called icons. I cost is the advertising cost of styles. So basically it's a ratio that lets you know how effective and efficient your adds up and the more styles you get the list spend, hopefully you have, that equation works out much better for you. But that's just some of the terminology that you might come across when you're looking at doing Edmondson advertising. In this course, I'm not going to go into huge amount of data. How about Amazon advertising and the tutorials are things I have that in other courses. But to register, to credit in the camps. Provided the dress off the top here, advertising.amazon.com forward slash register. The select your country and you go through the process of adding Pi Min information and details. But remember, you do need to register for each country that you wish to advertising. What are the other, what are the tops of Amazon campaigns? Can you create? Well, you've got sponsored products, which is the one that 90% of most people do. And it's the one that's often the most effective. And there's three main tops you can do auto campaigns. Basically, Amazon choose different keywords, different books that I try and put your book Nia and search for. That allows Amazon though the algorithm to pick up that. You can use Amazon to do that for you. It can be a bit challenging. Nyc is sometimes the words, categories that Amazon books, your book in front of that accurate and you can spend a bit of money. And Amazon advertising is all that crediting revenue for Amazon units need to be careful with using that method. You can have what they call a broad phrase and exact keyword campaign. And you choose different words that you can rank for to get your book in front of. You can have broad term words, phrases, and exact words. The last one is, you can have a campaign by some categories. What I call ice and target. So each book on Amazon will have an ISBN number. And you can target a particular book IV, it's very similar to yours. And that book shows your bookmark, the other above it or below it are a couple below it. And therefore, if that's selling really well, he might have a chance of your book selling if it's close by to that book, I'd recommend some tutorials that you can use the learning console via Amazon advertising. So you'd become a student and you can enroll in these courses here. So once code is sponsored, ads bootcamp, you can go about different Add to, add tops. So I'd recommend doing that because there are some good tutorials from Amazon ads for that. The next one is Afri, Amazon ads tutorial. That's by enterpreneur. And if you Google keen enterpreneur, Amazon ads tutorial, it will take you straight here and a highly recommend it. It's a free course. There's quite a few modules involved. And it is really well-explained and provides a lot of good information that gets you started. So as I said, this course, I'm not gonna go into depth. The bat and Amazon advertising do provide that in another Amazon pay course that I have, which is available. But I would definitely recommend that you start with this one that's free of charge and you can start to watch this information that the owner of kinda pronate that dive chasing provides. So maybe check that out as well if you want some more information about Amazon ads. 45. Amazon Ads Performance - December 2023 Update: Hello and welcome to this lesson. I wanted to actually provide this updated lesson regarding the power of Amazon ads. I know that I've run through using Amazon Ants to help with your children's picture storybook. But let me give you a practical example of the power of Amazon ads and I'll show you my dashboard for the United States but also Australia. This is a book that I wrote called Archie the Bear Becomes a Big Brother. And you can see this is the year to date, January 1, 2023 to December 2023. Nearly 12 months, I've spent $1,327 on ads. However, the return on that investment has been $6,834 in sales, equating to around about maybe 2.2 to $3,000 in profit from that. So once you subtract the spend and the sales, that's roughly the profit that I'll be getting. Although you should not really aim for Amazon ads to be highly profitable, it's more to get traction and to get your book ranked. At the moment, I've got an A cost of 19.42 So basically that is the spend versus the sales that needs to be sort of kept under 20% if you can. But that is the power of using Amazon ads to help with your children. Pick your storybook. But let's look at the Australian campaign equivalent to the year to date. So far it's actually got a much lower cost of 11% I've only spent $73 but I've made $659 Australian based on this campaign alone. I will continue to use this. It's got nearly 80,000 impressions and it's been fantastic to get that ranking on the Australian marketplace. I'd recommend that if you're going to use Amazon ads, make sure that you turn them on in a couple of different marketplaces if you can, and depending on the kind of book you do publish and if it's going to be recognized by customers as something valuable, definitely do that. But always be careful of your budget with Amazon ads because it can blow out, particularly during peak time in December of each year as it goes towards Christmas. But in January and February tends to be a lot cheaper. It's probably a good time to launch campaigns that time of the year, but this one has been running now since, I think, yeah, would be probably December last year, maybe even January this year. It has performed really, really well for me. So this is just an update talking about Amazon ads, the power of using them for your children's picture storybook. And having an effective campaign which helps promote your book and to reach more customers. So hopefully this has helped you out. 46. How to Create Mock Book Images: In this lesson, I wanted to talk about mock book images that you can use for your marketing. Now MOC images allow a customer to see what the bookmark look like. If we were sitting on the shelf, if it was on the bed, if they're already at themselves. And that does help to make conversions. I've got a couple of different softwares that are do use it a free to use. So let me show you what those are because your MOC images can be used for a number of different marketing strategies that GMR lot to implement. So let me show you the software programs that I use that G can use as well to create your images. The first one is called Book brush, and you can create an account for free with book brush. There's a number of free mockups you can do. So I'm just going to log in now by going up here. And once I'm signed in, what I need to do is go to instant mock-ups. At least provides a number of different options for your mockups. And you've got plenty of free options you can choose. Once it loads up, I'll show you what these options are and how to create an image. I've got three here at the moment. What I'll do is I'll show you how we can do 14 I, I 0.5 or like a square version. Because if we go down here and choose the 3D, these are all what you can do for the free version. So there's a book ones you can do these paper back. There's also hard Becky can do. There's even a bind you can do, and then you can use the square version. So if I wanted to choose this one just here, I'll click on that. I'll upload my image or click on an existing image. I'll just click on that. Then what we need to do is go to convert. Now, this will now start to convert the image. And then it'll actually give us a pain J image that we can then utilize for marketing. We just white for this to work. Download the image, and then we just wait for the image to pop up. We click down here. I open it up, and here it is. Perfect. And that will show the customer what they likely to receive when they get this book. Nursing clear. And it's just such a great way to be able to show your book. Now you can also choose different options. We're just going to go to stop and close. Now if we were to do a book that was more like a seven by ten, then you can choose out just make sure you unclick that one. If you had another book, just say it was this one just here. What I'll do is I'll upload another image, which I'm doing now. So an image should pop up in a second. I will just wait for it to load a nap, the image is loaded up, I click on it, then choose what I want. So you can also go for vertical lookup, a square image as well. But when they've got a locked image, diet only for people on a subscription. So you can see the different images there. We're gonna go to 3D game and ongoing to choose. I'm going to go down a little bit fun one that might be suitable for me. Let's choose just trying to find a suitable one for Charles book. Let's go back up again. These ones are obviously idea that one's a really good one. I might even choose at one and see what it looks like. Let's go with this one again. But you can choose your seven by ten, for example, and choose any one of those. But I'm just interested to see what this one looks like. Let's convert this download images. Let's have a look at this one. Yep, come out really well. So that's the hard back. And you can get that done as a Maki image as well. Then all you need to do is save that image into your folder and then you can use that for your publications. Let's go to another one now that was called Book brush.com. Let's go to this one is called Book in motion.com. And what you can do is font one that might be suitable. So let's go down here. Let's choose this one just here on the bookshelf. You got to customize this mockup. Then you need to choose an image that is suitable. So you guys select a cover image, a Monterey to get the image quickly, which are just done now. This is the book that was, if it was like a seven by ten inch book. And all you need to do then is right-click and you guys save image as and then you can save your image to your folder where you need to have it. So that is another good way of choosing different ones. That's a book standing on a wooden shelf. If you go back again, you've got all different options you can choose from. These are other ones that are phrase well, and the last one I want to show you is called the three-day book cover creator. You can do a composite if you wanted to. If you had an a book and the pipe, a bank for example, let's choose this one on eight to go next on A2, browse and grab an image. Let me do that. Let's go this one. And then we go upload. We wait for it to upload. Quite F4 to take through. Now. Then what we need to do is just go Next. We go JPEG. Then it will actually, it will create the image force, which is now available down here. Click on here, and there we have it. We've got one and unlock an iPad on a phone and one as a thick book. Now the only thing is with these MOC images, just got to be careful that you're not getting one that has such a thick book if it's not because you don't want the customer to expect a hundred and fifty, two hundred page book when it might be only 40 pages. Let's go back here again. And let's choose another option. If we want to choose a single page, we click on the image. Go next. Browse, click that one, get back. We upload it, white for it to upload, which is ticking through now. Then what we need to do is wait for that to load up. It will show us the image to make sure it's the one that we want. And we are nixed. Then we click JPEG. Now this will just white. This will upload. So he comes image now, we click here. Then it brings up the book. Again. Just be careful with the thickness. That's why logbook brush, because it provides probably a better Maki Mitch compared to these thicker books. These afforded more for a high content books. But it's still a good option to consider having if you wanted these ones. So let's stop here. These are probably the better ones that are think would work based on the book brush.com. But there are some options for you, and there's plenty that you can choose from. And they are all great to be able to use for your mockup images, for your marketing and advertising. That was book brush.com, book in motion.com, and DIY book covers.com. So they're the three that I use that you might like to choose yourself to create your mock book images. 47. 3 Step Strategy to Sell More Books : So when you book guys live, what are the different steps and strategies that you can implement into your own launch plan that will help you to sell more books. When you book does go live, you have approximately 30 days to really try and sell as many books as you can. Because he Amazon algorithm does logbook styles. If I say the book is popular, they'll continue to float your book to the top and hopefully appear on page one of the search results. Now I've created a document that outlines stamp specific steps and strategies that you can use to sell more books. So let me run through that information now to be able to help you in your journey. So step number one is going back a few steps actually, it's getting the core elements right. And we've covered this in the course, the innate and make sure that you get your title, your subtitle, your description, and your keywords right? Now if you feel that when you've launched your book, you've got maybe somebody description is not working or the key backend keywords aren't working, you can go back and change that. What you can't change the easier title or your subtitle. I remind the sign. If you want to look at different ways you can increase your visibility, then make sure that you check out your keywords and your description. Because if your book is perhaps getting in the front of customers but they're not buying it, then something is wrong with the description because that is what will entice them to buy your book. So make sure you go and check. Or even before you launch your book, your toddler and subtitle, make sure we got the right keywords implies. Then you can always change your seven backend keywords and try and get your description as good and as positive as possible so that customers want to buy your book. Let's step number one. Step number two is to get eyeballs on your book. Many believe that once the book goes live, but that is done. But you were too hard for you book, you make sacrifices to get you a book created. You want people to know about your book. There are different ways that you can market your book, but free Empire. And you might need to get some social proof as well for your book to start getting ranking, such as reviews. You might like to consider Facebook ads, LinkedIn, and you might want to put a post on LinkedIn about what you've created. There are Amazon ads you can run as well directly to the customer. You can think about post on Instagram in something on YouTube and also Google. They're asked that there are different platforms you can do to help with reviews. So one is called Puppy.co and the other one is called Book spread..com. So check those out if you're interested in helping support your book with some social proof, they can help as well. Let's go to the next one is expanding into broader markets. Amazon today pays just one year. It's the biggest in the world, but it's not the only one. Other platforms like Ingram, Spark, and Lulu drafted digital, and also platforms like gamma wrote and ETC, also can help you to get more styles. Now the last point is an off had success with it is to get your books translated for different marketplaces. Solve had success in Germany, Italy, Japan. And spine of getting more books translated. And it depends on the Carnot book you're doing. If you're creating a children's picture storybook and it's robbing book. Those words may not necessarily translate to well from English to another language. But you need to pick which books monetary, be effective and work well in other marketplaces. Three different steps and strategies that you should make sure you implement to get your book styles increasing. And particularly for those first 30 days, It's a height that is three steps have helped you to get a bit more of an idea and bit of an understanding about how you can increase your book styles. 48. Your Basic Book Launch Strategy: Welcome to this lesson. This is a strategy that not many people implement because I think that they book wants it does go live. That that's the end. And you can relax and you can wipe the styles to come through. But you do need some form of book launch strategy that you do give you a book every opportunity to sell. I've just outlined a basic strategy that she can fall in Austin nasally. And most of these strategies will steps are fray, apart from a couple that you can choose whether to implement or not. But it's a back-end exposure for your book. You need as much exposure as you can get. Particularly nice first 30 days. Let me show you a run down of the CPC can implement as part of your book launch strategy. Just created this simple spreadsheet or checklists. And a start with mono spot dies from your book going live. One of the free techniques that I have used and are do you continue to use? Is Bye, looking into Facebook groups where occupy potentially market model. Now you're not going into these groups and saying, hi, I've got a book, put it on there, and the admin mugshot that ****, you do need to form some trust and you do need to be part of that group in the lead up to your book going live. So it doesn't look lucky just using the group to promote your book, you need to develop a friendship with the people that are in that group and contribute and provide some knowledge or experience or value to that group. Once you book goes live, you need to think about what extra steps you can do to Dane start provided models for days. They might be additional categories that you can look to include. And what you can actually do is contact Amazon card API and requests a further six categories. That being a title of ICT categories for your book, as long as they are irrelevant. But putting irrelevant categories in, you can compromise your account. So make sure that any categories you actually a book suitable for your book. Your book is live, then you can add IPS content. So I plus content, do a Google have some videos that are available in regards to adding content to your book. It's basically an additional layer of marketing. You can do di2, add those additional six categories by contacting tidy pay customer support. Also di2, my contact with a Facebook group or groups and make your posts about your book becoming available. And you'll link to your book. You can just copy and paste that link in the post. Then after that usually default to day seven, you have the look inside feature, which is when you click on the book and you can see inside it that becomes available is approximately default as I7 bit of cayenne, what they up to ten days for it to become a vowel. Now once the look inside feature becomes available, we won't show first Amazon ad campaign. And I'll usually go for broad or fries keyword campaign. And that starts off with providing some keywords or think customers are gonna be searching for. Then also day five, I increase my looking side 20 per cent. So when you book naturally is uploaded, contact I kindly pay, will allocate 10% of your book to be what I call look inside. Now you can increase it all the way up to approximately 70%. So you can, again look at some videos about how to do that are provided plenty in the past of their head or do them die six, add your pipe it back and you hop back. If you've got both forms to Ingram spark. And you also might want to create an e-book if you haven't already. And then titanium or sometimes add a post to LinkedIn or Instagram. It just depends what kind of book it is and whether it's relevant or not. Now for the first 30 to 45 dyes or review my Amazon ads every two dice and continue to optimize or continue to review Facebook groups where might be able to provide but book this in groups. You can do that in and considering running a boost or an ad for Facebook as well. And that can help generate leads and opportunities for more styles. So that's just a general bizspeak launch method. These are the things that you need to consider doing when you're launching your book or when you book guys live, because these are things that get traction, exposure and you want to sell as many as he came first, 3245 days. This is the basic launch method that you might want to look at implementing as part of your launch strategy. 49. Update 2023 - Launching Your Book on Amazon KDP: I wanted to include this lesson in addition to the previous one about book launches. Now I've created a specific book launch course now for Amazon, k p, since I created this course to begin with. But what I thought I'd do is go over a few of those steps that are doing including the course, so that you can actually apply those to your children's picture storybook. As I've mentioned, launching your book is just a really important time. You get a short window of opportunity to try and get your keywords ranking on Amazon, K2, AP. Therefore, applying the right techniques during the first 30 days will be important for the long-term sales of your book. Let me just cover off a few of the slides that are included in my launch course that again, is specifically targeted at that approach and what I personally do to launch my children's picture storybooks. So let's get into a couple of slides right now. So here's the timeline for your book launch and important steps. And again, I do cover this in depth in my book launch strategy for Amazon kVp. But as mentioned, I did want to cover this a little bit in this course as well. So number one, book goes live. So that's obviously step number one, you've launched onto Amazon kVp. What do you next need to do? Well, critically, getting social proof and that's review. So a strong focus on early reviews and review greatly assist with that social proof and therefore increase the opportunity for more sales. The more people that like your book, and the more people that comment positively about your book, the better chance you have. Animal sales. Number three is adding your a plus content. So that's the additional marketing tool that allows customers to see inside your book. Number four is to add additional categories and increase the look inside of your book. And adding additional categories will just allow it to feature in more areas for such ability for customers. And you can contact Amazon ADP direct to add an additional six categories in total of eight categories. Now I have been informed that you might actually be able to get ten categories. But as far as I'm aware, the maximum categories you can have as part of your book is ite. But you might be, won't be able to prove me wrong. But at this point in time, you can add an additional six further to the tube when you load your book. Number five is Amazon advertising and convince your Amazon advertising to drive sales. So I do have a mastering Amazon advertising course, but you do need to learn how to use Amazon advertising. And I'm finding it's even more relevant and important these days with a number of books that are being loaded onto Amazon to use the AMS or Amazon marketing services platform to drive sales to your book. And therefore, by driving sales you then you give your book more of an opportunity to get more reviews. And that big engine starts to take over. Number six is social media. So if relevant, make postal, create content for social media. That could be on LinkedIn, it could be on YouTube, it could be in Facebook groups. That could be Twitter, it could be Instagram. You just think of the different social media platforms where you can market your book and effectively get it out there for people to see. So what will your book sales growth hopefully look like? Well, it needs to be increasing trajectory of your book sales. As you progress over time, then you will obviously have a few down days. You might have a couple of peaks, but you want the trajectory to be in this line here. Now, Amazon loves the algorithm of Amazon loves consistent sales and not just sales, they just drop off a cliff and not to be seen again. As you progress over your first 30 days. Increasing the trajectory of your book sales will be also important. Tips when launching your book. Make sure you complete your keyword research and credit least prior to your book going live. When you book becomes law, start with a broad keyword campaign. And again, check out my Amazon Ed's course if you require more helping this area, what you're aiming for is a five to eight reviews. If you book, as you start to ramp up your Amazon ads, aimed to increase the social proof file reviews as discussed. In the main course I discuss it, then increase the look inside feature with k p to 20 per cent. Just this enables customers to get a better feel for your book and optimize your campaigns for Amazon advertising once the data starts to show. Now remember, Amazon advertising data can be delayed up to 12 h. And my bonus tip is, do not take your pedal off the accelerator. Monitor your campaigns closely for the next few months as you optimize them. So I hope some of those tips to help you with your book launch. Remember, on this platform, I do also have the two courses that you can enroll in if that's what you want to do, which is the how to load your book successfully on Amazon kj P, along with mastering Amazon advertising, now couldn't fit it all into this course. So that's why I've created two separate courses. So it's actually specializing in that area rather than too broad. So check those out if you want to undermine instructor profile. So they have a couple of quick tips on launching your children's picture storybook. So hopefully they are helpful for you. 50. Ordering Copies of Your Books: One of my favorite stages of authoring and publishing a book is actually receiving a copy. So how do you go about ordering copies of your book? You might like books to get friends, get the family to order for colleagues, to order for potential business clients. There are many reasons why you might want to order books. Are they individually or in bulk? You can do this easily through your Amazon tidy pay account. If you've decided to self-publish and go through that route. You can also order books through your Ingram Spock account. Again, if you decided to create a book and loaded it up to England, Spock. Ok, show you both methods. It's not an easy and you can easily organize your book either individually or in bulk to get copies delivered to wherever you want to. Let me jump into my holiday pay dashboard now and show you where you need to go. Once you're on your dashboard. Or you need to do is scroll down to the book that you wish to publish. I'm going to scroll down to a book that would potentially allowed to order. And I'll show you the process book here down below that I'd like to order or you need to do is go to In order author copies. You click on that. And then it will actually ask you the number or the quantity of books. You can do it all the way up to 999 copies. And if we just did fall of copies and then you do the marketplace, you go to S2.com that I use for me. It will show you the total cost just here. And that doesn't include shipping or applicable taxes they want you to do is go to Submit Order, putting in your details, and then it will be organized for you. And Amazon has a tracking system and you will save notification via email with the tracking number and you can easily track it. That's how you order copies through Amazon cardiac pain and Austin easily. Now let's go to Ingram Spock and I'll show you where you can order copies for that platform. So all I need to do is go to my Asana and I'll login just here. Then what will do? It'll take me to my mind, pij, and you just need to go to orders. You click on orders. That will take you to a page where you then select the pages or just get rid of that popup. And you can either put the toddling or the ISBN and it will find it. They know you need to do is click on what you want to do and you scroll down and you add items to order. And it's nice and simple. It'll actually to ask you what sort of shipping you want to do. So I'm just gonna go to this one just here in a FI guy down below at arms to order. Then just wait for it to process the order. Then what you need to do is add the address state, how's the shipping details, the print like Haitian, how quickly it like the order printed, for example, economy express or rush. And how quickly would you lock it to be deleted. So it is a printing time and also a delivery pricing structure you can do. When you go down, you just go down and Submit Order. It'll confirm it via e-mail. I will also give you a details of when the autumn has been shipped and also tracking. So it's nice and easy to follow. And you can do that thousands of books through Ingram, Spark and salt limited to that 999 that tied a piece. That's how you order your books through Ingram Spock. 51. Traditional Publishing: In this lesson, I want to talk about some traditional publishing options that you've got. A y that you can try and find out which publishes or accepting books and the y to actually communicate through to them. So let me get into my experience with traditional publishing. It personally, I've had experience with both self-publishing and using a major publisher to publish one of my books. Now of course, is gonna be pros and cons for going down the self-publishing rope or getting a magic publish it or do it. Now one of the significant things at all would highlight is that you do lose a lot of control when you do get I publish it to either see your book and the launch of it, the marketing of it, and even the design of it. Now that might actually sit well with you and you might lock that control is taken away from you. And at the end of the day, you just pretty much received a royalty for some people locked to have more of that control, to get an understanding, total have a personal understanding of what they exactly once. Therefore, they can have a much bigger sigh in the design, how it's marketed. But the Achilles heel or the thing that lets most self-published his dam, is the fact that you do need a budget to market and advertise your book, and it does need to be ongoing. If you do get a traditional publisher, I do all that work for you. Although in recent times they will lean back on people that do have a social media following to help them out to get some traction and to use that social media following to help get that book noticed. And two, into the hands of many, many people a lot quicker than what traditionally you might have happened in the moment. What I'm going to do is just go through a list of some publishes that GMOs can see the sending through your submission of your manuscript or your book. But remember it's just a handful. There are literally thousands of publishers out there that you could approach. But h of them have unique submission details that you need to make sure that you bought, bought. In a moment, I'll show you one example, but remember, just take the time to get the prices right and Tyler H response as well. Either as either an overview of all my experience, then I like a bit of a combination. I'd do like the opportunity to self-publish. And I do like having that control of creating modern covers and creating the manuscripts. Those sorts of things I actually do really enjoy better. I can also say the significant benefit of getting a major publisher, particularly the book, goes exceptionally well. Then having that atom on our hands and didn't just receiving a royalty check. Check is something that I really lock. Let's get into the next small sexual artists outline some of the publishes and I, I'll give you an example of what you need to do to submit your book and some of the guidelines if just one of those publishes. There were many, many different options you can choose from. These are just a handful of different options that aren't gone through and found that most of them, uh, currently accepting submissions. Penguin Random House at the moment, I currently closed, but it just depends on the time of the year. Depends on the corner book you've got. And also depends on how I feel like a market and sell your book. Now what I'll do is just go to one of these websites and I'll show you the general idea of what you need to do to submit your book through to one of these major publishes. And therefore, it's good opportunity to say what happens through that process. So let me go to one of these publishes now and show you the website and the submission details that you need to fulfill. This is big scar publishing. This is a magic publisher in Australia, but you tend to find most of them follow this particular framework. What you'll have is a submission component of the website. Now if you go all the way down to the boat below, you'll generally say Quick Links or something like that where it's submitting a manuscript they weren't will do it'll ask you to submit through generally email. Some of them do have platforms where we can include all your details and submit it via the website. You just need to provide a short synopsis or the manuscript. Generally the first few pages of the book. You might have an either view. And you've also need to provide some information about yourself and about your history of being an author or publisher, and perhaps multiple books that you've published previously. What you need to do is just carefully read through this information, make sure you're avoiding bought their requirements. Don't just copy and paste to every single publisher because some of them do have different guidelines and that'll be owed to pick up pretty quickly. If you're just copying, pasting the same information to every single publisher, might actually Tyler it. And just spend an extra half an hour tailoring your submission through today's publishes. That's an important thing to tonight. There you go. There's a few different options for consideration. There are plenty more at, they just do some more research and find out what publishes or accepting manuscripts at this point in time. There's some publishes that might not permit particularly cons of children's books. So you just need to read carefully the font print, because I don't want to receive submissions when they're not actually accepting submissions and it'd be wise to fewer Tom as well as I did mention, just type the time to Tyler H submission individually. Don't just do bulk submissions all at one time. Take you time. You've worked hard to get your book to where it is now. So you really want it to stand out when it is submitted through to a publisher. 52. Final Action Checklist: Now at this stage of the course, we're almost there. And it means that you need to start to take action on many of the things that we've been learning. Now, one of the key things that you need to do is make sure that you note down the specific tasks that you need to prioritize to start your children's book. Now about prioritizing, you then have focus and you have clarity of what you need to get down. Now to help out with these processes, to get some clarity around what the stages are that you need to prepare. I've got a bit of a checklist. It's just a simple particularistic you can put in place that will help you through that stage. Now for many people, they almost exhausted by the time I finish a course. But this is the stage that's most important when you need to apply your knowledge, apply the information that you've learned and the steps that you need to take. Because without taking these next steps, your book won't come to life. And I want you to be able to create your own children's book for the world. Just say, let me run through a few of these checklists points to help you get going. This is the final checklist to take action upon completion of the course. So number one, you have to find your purpose. Really think carefully about your why. What is it that you want to create your book? What purpose do you have around creating it and what differences you get a mike. The second one is if you've completed your research on a potential book topic, have you done the Amazon KP search if you looked on other platforms to do your research about what is popular and what might potentially sell. On platforms like Amazon. Number three, you credit your book structure and format. And you've got the outline organized with the title, the subtitle, the main characters, the number of pages, the different categories, even a description or a short description to get you going. The next one is to start writing your manuscript. And these, it takes some time. It may take a few days, a few weeks, even a few months. But starting your manuscript and your story will start to bring the key elements together and start to form the whole structure around your book. The next thing you need to do is create your title and your subtitle based on your manuscript. It might mean that you've come up with your total previously. And that's fine because sometimes the title and the subtitle can generate your story and your manuscript of what you want to write. The next one is to create your front and back cover paperback, hardback book. That it's something you might create yourself or you, or you might get that outsourced just depending on your creation skills in your design skills. Next thing is to save your cover and manuscripts in the correct format. We want to make sure we uploaded in the correct format to Amazon, kVp, and Ingram Spock. If you are uploading to income Spock. And the last one is to load your book and have your launch strategy ready. Having your book uploaded and ready to go. It can take upwards of seven days, even longer sometimes to get your book approved. But in that time, get your launch strategy ready, way you going to promote it and avatars, your book. So a few things in regards to the final checklist that I'd like you to consider and make sure you have everything ready so that when your book is ready to go, you have all those components ready, all the steps completed. And you can really celebrate the fact you've created your own children's picture storybook. 53. Section 8 - Conclusion: Well congratulations, where in the last final stretch of the course, and in the conclusion of this course, I'm gonna be talking through a few key action points that are lucky to take, because it's important that you do take action when you've completed the course. And then finally, it's the book review where I'm actually going to show you the physical book that I've ordered and I'm going to have it ready to show you. So let's get into the final part of this course. 54. The Book Reveal!: One of the most exciting and rewarding parts of being a self-published is getting you all the copy in the mail and you're ready to unbox it. You haven't seen it even in physical form before. And now it's the very first time. Well, I'll make solid to let you know that my package has just arrived in the mail. I wanted to unbox my book after going through the whole process, showing you everything throughout the course about how to create your own children's peaches storybook. Now, these monotone to reveal what model looks like. I'm going to unpackage it right now. It's in this package right here. Brought up. Have a look. Here we go. Sorry. There we have it all emptied. The beach adventure is now out. And if you look at the back cover, it's come up really, really, well, very happy with that. If we look through the first couple of pages, I'll open one of those up as well. This is the first page there. There's another page there. So the color is really, really good. Noss and vivid. It's really clear and I'm super, super happy with it. So that's how the book has come up after going through the whole process and showing you how to create a book, it is now in the physical format, and that's what she can experience yourself when you get your book for the very first time. Is this such an exciting time? And I'm glad I was able to share that with you. Now let's finish up the course and talk through everything that you need to know before you go ahead and do your own self-publishing for your own children's picture storybook. 55. Final Words - Course Conclusion: Thank you so much for joining this course about how to create a children's picture storybook. Not only did you learn the skills and the knowledge that are being older have OR gate I've last couple of years. You also got to see firsthand how credit my own children's picture storybooks throughout the process, from firstly, come up with the idea and the concept all the way through to having a final printed version to be able to show you. And that's important. I wanted to show you that whole journey of what it's like. So you know that you can do yourself. Now there are many steps that were involved in this course. And remember, you can go back at any time and watch those lessons to make sure you implement the rot strategies and steps to be able to get your book through to the production stage, to have your own printed version, and to be able to sell across many, many different marketplaces. And even you might get into a position where you can convert that book into a different language and sell globally to different countries as well. Now I've really enjoyed building this course for you. It's been highly enjoyable. There are so many things that I enjoy about teaching and being able to share my experiences with you. But again, thank you very much for choosing this course. I do hope you have a great amount of success in your publishing in the months and the yeast to come. And I look forward to sharing with you more knowledge experience with other courses are correct. So until that happens, good luck and thank you very much. 56. My SkillShare Instructor Profile and Self-Publishing Courses: Hello and welcome to this updated lesson. Now, since creating this course, I've created a number of other courses in the self-publishing space. And I thought it would be good opportunity to introduce you to some of those courses and you can view those at by my profile page. So what I'm gonna do in a moment is go to my instructor profile page and show you some of the other courses that I have. Now, these courses can take time. You need to make sure that when you are doing these courses, that you're stopping and taking action and applying the information. Don't just become an information junkie where you are absorbing information beaten, not applying it. The most important thing that I've found along my journey of creating books and creating courses and other information and content is that you need to take that critical key action. Now, it's just the first step you need to take. Then you tend to get some momentum. Make sure that you're jotting down some of your goals that you want to achieve. What sort of things we'll you'd like to create in the next 12 months. So let's go to my author profile page now you can see those other courses, and therefore, they might apply to helping you to scale your self-publishing. Or they might be an area that you wish to specialize in just a little bit more. So let me hit the instructor profile page right now. This is my instructor profile page for Skillshare. If you scroll down, you can see the different courses that I have available. How to create low no content books on Amazon Cloud API currently has 3,004 students enrolled. I've also got my email marketing course to increase your book sales and in also increase your email list. If that's what you intend on doing to increase the number of customers that actually know about your books. I've also got a course with over 600 students on how to create and design a paperback. People can have book covers using Amazon API and also a very popular course on how to create and publish a children's book. Another popular class which is growing is mastering Amazon advertising. There's also a course on mastering habit development. If that's what you're interested in. The doses are looking to expand outside of Amazon. Kvp of created a course on how to self-publish with Ingram Spark. Now that's an in-depth course that will really help you to provide diversification with your publishing. And then finally, new course at the time of filming. And that is how to successfully launch a book on Amazon, KD pay. So these are some of the courses that I do have. The self-publishing space. Please check out my author profile or with my instructor profile to access these courses and you'll be able to join them along with the many other students that have to successfully scale yourself publishing business. So hopefully that helps you to select other costs of created in the self-publishing spice.