How To Create and Publish Your First Coloring Book

Adult coloring books became increasingly popular a few years ago and they are still one of the top ways for people to relax. If you do just a quick search on Facebook, you will see so many groups devoted to this practice. So why not adding a few coloring books to your business?

In this class I’ll show you how to create a coloring book from planning, to producing the illustrations, to laying them out on pages that you can either sell as a digital download on sites such as Etsy, or upload on Kindle Direct Publishing.You can also have your pages printed professionally and sell hard copies of your book at fairs or markets.

I will also show you two different ways to create the book cover, one for a printed version of your book and one using the KDP template.

By the end of this class you will have acquired skills that can be applied not only to all your future coloring books projects but also to your other low content book projects.

This class is for beginners in the field of self-publishing, but a knowledge of editing/drawing software would be very helpful.

You will need:

If drawing the pages by hand:

• Paper
• Pencil
• Ink pen
• Scanner or iPad/iPhone to take picture (or you can use the app Scanner Pro)
• Software to vectorize your drawings (I use Illustrator but you can use any software you feel comfortable using)

 If drawing digitally:

• Drawing software

• Optional
  • iPad + Procreate (or other drawing app) + pencil

NOTE: I will use InDesign to prepare the PDF document to upload on the KDP website, but you can use Microsoft Word and the free template from Amazon KDP. I explain how to use the template in my previous class: How To Self-Publish A Low Or No Content Book On Amazon KDP For Beginners

To download a manuscript template follow this link: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834230

For the cover template follow this link: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/cover-templates

Amazon KDP website: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/

• Class Introduction
• Class Project
• Materials
• Let's Plan the Book
• Thumbnail sketches
• The Thumbnail Template
• Time to Draw
• Vectirizing Your Drawings
• Layout for Printable Pages
• Layout for KDP Pubishing
• Make the Cover for Self Printing
• Make the Cover for KDP Publishing
• Uploading Your Book
• Bonus Lesson
• Final Toughts