I’m going to use a website called Creative Fabrica (affiliate link) and a program called Affinity Publisher. Creative Fabrica has literally millions of resources, all of which can be used in your commercial projects. There are graphics, fonts, planners and full KDP interiors, it is so worth the cost! You can download entire activity books, Read More
Colouring Book Using Free Tools
This will show you how to create a simple, free colouring book using Canva and Pixabay. Visit Pixabay. Search for ‘colouring book’ or ‘coloring book’ in illustrations: Search for the images you want to use and download the largest sizes possible. They can always be resized if they are too large: Try to download images with Read More
Adding A+ Content
Now that Amazon doesn’t allow the ‘Look Inside’ feature for new low-content uploads, you may want to add extra content yourself. It’s more work, but you can add extra images and text using their templates. Here’s how it’s done. Start by clicking the ‘Marketing’ link at the top of your KDP dashboard. On the next Read More
Create Author Accounts
A good way to group your books together is by creating an author account for each pen name you use. To do so, you can go to Author Central. There you can create and edit your profile, as well as change the author URL: When you are all set up, you can start adding your Read More
Adding Extra Categories
When you upload a book, please select 2 categories that are as relevant as possible. If you try to add it to an irrelevant category, you risk your book being rejected. However, the categories displayed on the upload page are limited; there are literally thousands of categories and they all can’t be displayed here. However, Read More
Avoiding Mistakes
It’s sometimes difficult to avoid mistakes that can get your book rejected or your account terminated. There are many ways for this to happen! Your best bet is to do your own research and see how others have learned from their own mistakes which can better help you: YouTube videos Google Search
Changes to Amazon Low-Content Submissions
Amazon now requires you to stipulate if your book is low-content during the upload process. This means you now won’t be able to use one of their free ISBNs, which means your books won’t have the handy ‘Look Inside’ feature. This is a big problem for a lot of creators who design log/record books, planners Read More
Bleed Or No Bleed?
When uploading your book, you will be given an option of adding bleed or no bleed. Here is some information on the KDP site itself with an explanation. The page margins you choose will depend on the number of pages you want in your book, for the most part. For example, uploading a basic notebook will probably Read More
Other Tools
There are a few other tools out there, both free and paid, that can help with your book business: Amazon Book Sales Calculator Flying Upload Merch Titans Keywordtool.io Bklnk.com If you are serious about building an Amazon KDP business, you should take your time and research everything out there. There are some amazing videos and Read More
Amazon KDP Suspension
I recently awoke to a concerning email from Amazon. I had inadvertently used a copyrighted term in my listing and they suspended my account. I was shocked and worried that all of the work I had put into creating and uploading my books had been a huge waste of time! I had no idea that Read More