How I Publish AI Coloring Books on Amazon KDP (Complete Tutorial for Beginners)

Side hustle Slim Jim here. Do you like that one? That was off the cuff. That's pretty good. Living is very expensive. Groceries, gas, car, rent, insurance. The price of everything is way up. I was at Burger King. I got a Whopper, Whopper meal. When I was in college, a Whopper meal, this is going to age me. It was like $5 for a Whopper meal. I got a Whopper meal is $12 for one person to get a Whopper, small fry and small drink. And don't judge my eating choices. When I first got out of college and I got offered 70 K a year, I thought, man, this is, I'm made 70 K a year. This will last me the rest of my life. I never need to make another cent. 70 K a year. Today barely gets you anything. You can barely get by with that. Let me know in the comments. Do you feel that pressure of just the price of everything going up? But we've reached a point where a side hustle is almost a necessity. It's not just a nice to have. It's almost, you need this. If you're going to live, pay your bills. If you want to go on a vacation ever, you almost need a side hustle. You need some extra income coming in because salaries are not keeping up with the cost of living. So today I want to talk about my favorite side hustle. When anyone asks me, Hey, I have extra time. What should I do to make a little extra money? This is the first thing that I tell them every time. And the reason is it's something anyone can do. It costs nothing upfront. You don't need any special skills and it's actually not too difficult to get going. So you can follow me step by step here today. We are going to publish a coloring book on Amazon. I'm going to publish a book on Amazon. And again, you can follow along. You can do the exact same thing, but please don't use my same niche or else we will compete with each other. Don't want that. So let's talk about publishing on Amazon. So when you hear publishing, you might think, Oh, I need, you know, a 300 page novel or something like that. That is one type of book you can publish for sure. If you're a writer and you want to go do that a more power to you, if you want to try to use AI to write a novel like that, that'd be fun. I might, you know, maybe I'll do a video about that. But what I think is much easier, much more accessible for average non writer people like probably yourself and like me, there's two other types of content. There is low content books. So these would be like coloring books, journals, where it's just kind of a design with lines or planners, calendars, those types of things are low content. You don't have to really put together much content in order to publish those. And there's also mid content books. So these would be like devotionals and activity guides or maybe study guides for books, things like that. But today I want to focus on a coloring book. And if you're not familiar with the Amazon KDP program, this makes publishing very easy. So in the olden days, what you had to do is you had to design your book, send it to a publisher. They'd have to make, you know, 5,000 copies or whatever, cost you a ton of money. And then you're not even sure if you're going to be able to sell any of these. Amazon has taken out a lot of those barriers to entry. A lot of those steps made it super easy. So first off, you don't have to pay anything upfront. You can design your coloring book or devotional or whatever book you want, submit it to Amazon. They will put it for sale as a like hard cover book, soft cover book, a physical book, and then they don't actually publish it until someone buys it. Then they print it, they send it to the person, they take care of inventory, they take care of all that. And then they give you a portion. They take a portion of course, because they're actually doing most of the work and they give you a portion. So this becomes very easy for you as a publisher. And again, it's pretty much risk-free. You can put out a thousand of these books and it doesn't cost you anything because they don't actually publish it until someone buys it. So a great side hustle for anyone looking to start a side hustle. Don't go start with something that's going to cost you $5,000 to get going. Start with something that's basically free to start. So today we're going to be featuring book bolt. So this is a tool. It's already pretty easy to publish things on Amazon, but book bolt takes it to a new level. This helps you very easily research what book might do well on Amazon and then also put together the low content or the mid content to actually build your book. So you can see right off the bat, they show you some low content book ideas. They have templates for all of these, but like a workout journal, you could do family freezer inventory. You could have, you know, like a notepad of just these, these templates, a flight information page that could be interesting. You know, we have it on our phone, but then it's pretty stressful when you're at the airport trying to get the right app open at the right time. Some good ideas. So first we're going to research what idea we want for a coloring book. I want to publish a coloring book on Amazon KDPP. Can you give me some ideas? So we'll let Chachi BT give some ideas. You also can go onto book bolt and I'm on the cloud tab here and you can search, you know, top 100 bestseller coloring books, price range zero to $100. You could do some keywords. So maybe when I go in here, like some of these I feel like are going to be overdone. It might be good to find like a niche coloring book. Okay. And right off the bat was one thing I'm noticing. I'm recording this at the end of September. So Halloween is coming up. So you know, holiday themed coloring books do super, super well. Parents are out there looking, you know, what's a fun Halloween thing I could do. And so a Halloween coloring book, if you're able to get it out fast enough, you know, it might be it's end of September. It might be good maybe to start a Christmas coloring book so that you're ready to get that out. But yeah, ABC coloring books, more Halloween ones. So then they give you the keywords. These are the ones that are doing the best right now. So yeah, you can see Halloween. Let's check animal coloring book for kids ages four to eight. So this is kind of an interesting one. I think doing something similar to this $4 and 73 cents. So you can kind of use this as a model, you know, for what you're going to make has a hundred unique and fun pages for $4 and 73 cents. You can kind of see the pricing that people are going to be expecting $4, $7. This one has 30 coloring pages. A hundred seems like quite a bit. So I was wondering about niching down into African animal coloring books, African animal coloring book. See how much of this there is. So there's a few there. You can see 50 cute African animals coloring books. So there is some search volume for it. So the keywords tab here will show you like how many searches there are on Amazon for that. And it'll also show you on Google. So African American coloring book, we're actually looking at African animal coloring book. So there is some search volume competitions low. I think this is a good one. We're going to do Africa. We're going to do African animal coloring book for four to eight year olds. That's what we decided on. So then let's do give me five title and subtitle, subtitle options for Amazon coloring books for kids ages four to eight focus on cute animal designs, make them SEO friendly for Amazon and include important keyword that parents would search. By the way, if you're not paying for chat GPT five, it's 20 bucks a month. You should be paying for that. Okay. African animals coloring book for kids ages four to eight subtitle fun and easy coloring page with lions, elephants, giraffes, and more safari animals for boys and girls. There we go. Love it. Okay. Now we're going to go over to the create tab and we're going to do book bolt studio. Go to project new project. This is going to be a paperback cover and interior. And this is the African animals coloring book. Let's see. And so in this, it's sort of defaults to six by nine, but I think we went just like a normal piece of paper. So eight by 8.5 by 11 is a normal sheet of paper. We can do black and white interior with white paper, create project. Okay. So now let's get some pages to put in this. So let's do list 25 kid friendly animals that would be great for a children's coloring book. Focus on cute, simple animals. Okay, there we go. So we got to list our 25 animals here. Now we're going to use the create image and let's do create a black and white line art outline of a cute cartoon. Let's just start with the first one lion suitable for kids ages four to eight to color you stick outlines, no shading, simple shapes. So then I'm actually going to open a few tabs because I'm impatient while we're waiting for this to go. I'm gonna start a new tab, copy and paste, create image. And let's in this other tab, let's do a elephant. This is for a coloring book I am making. Sometimes when you give chat GPT more context, it does better. Okay, so there we go. We got a lion. Let's do, so we did lion elephant. Let's do giraffe. Let's start a new tab. How many tabs can I get going before chat GPT starts yelling at me? Do a zebra in this one. Zebra should probably have a checklist or something like that. Let me get a checklist here. We did lion doing giraffe. So I'll come back when I get all these generated, but you kind of see the general way that I'm doing this, but we'll wait for a couple of minutes and then finish. All right. So we've got these uploaded. How many do we get? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. So we actually, we missed one. This is good enough though. So let's just start with this lion. That's page one. Let's see if we want to make sure we save. Page two, let's add an image. We'll do this one. Save. Page three, boom, boom, four. You could resize these. You know, if I wanted the monkey to take up more of the page, which might be good, but I'll leave it how it is. Two flamingos in a row. Let me fix that. I might've mixed up my prompts. That's pretty funny having a kangaroo. Okay. While we're waiting for our rate limit here, let's go ahead. I don't have patience to sit there. So let's go to kdp.amazon.com. So this is where you actually create, you can see I have a few books in here already that I've made for other things. I put together a, the Geneva Bible with the apocrypha prayer journal for men activity book with mazes, prayer journal and Twitter basics for internet marketing. Actually, I did that one in 2012. Let's go here and let's go to create new. We're going to do a paperback. Can you give me, say we need a book title, the book title, the subtitle, and the subtitle again, to get the most sales on Amazon. Okay. African animals coloring books for children book title. It's good to have a subtitle author, James Pelton, contributors. No. Can you give me a great description for Amazon? Let's see. And then it's good to copy and paste all that they're looking in there. So I can just copy and paste all this, send it to chat, GPT, public domain work. Let's see if the image you can see, I like to multitask quite a bit. Let's see if it can do this. Now can you get this warthog going? I have to wait 19 minutes. Oh my goodness. I might just go with 23. I don't want to wait 19 minutes to get this video out. Let's include that. There are 23 animals. I'm going with 23. Sorry guys. Impatient. No reading age. We'll say two minimum. And maybe like, I mean, there's a lot of people who'd enjoy this to low content book. Choose the categories. What category for Amazon would this be? Best would get this the most sales, juvenile nonfiction. Let's see. Is there a kids, kids section, children's books. Those are coloring books, activities, crafts and games, activity books. General. I did this one. Should I do another category? What other categories might be good? Definitely children's books. You put it as an art book. Sure. So, and then let's get keywords here. Can we use chat GPT for that? Copy and pasting in. I like to just give chat GPT as much information as possible and then let it kind of do the work. Keywords. Boom. Safari animals coloring ages four to eight. Safari. Sure. These are pretty good ones. Okay. Okay. I'm saving. Continue. That all looks pretty good. We do need to create a cover. I don't know if chat GPT is going to let me do this because of my limit that I reached. Give me five design ideas for a kids coloring book cover. Bright colors, bold text, cartoon style with animals like lions, elephants, monkeys, et cetera. Please don't have an image limit. Just do it. 15 minutes. All right, well, let me finish here on KDP and then I'll wait 15 minutes and then we'll, we'll get that cover. Okay. So publish without an ISBN. That's fine. Black and white interior with white paper, six by nine, no bleed Matt. And you can read through all these things if you want to. Okay. That'll work. Download it. Okay, good. Download it. So let's go back to book bolt studio. Okay. So let's download this. Download current project. Let's see. M Y K. Let's go back to KDP. So upload manuscript. So we'll go ahead and upload the manuscript of the interior here. So here's the interior. This is the cover. I did not need to launch cover creator, but Amazon does have a nice cover creator upload a cover. We already have the cover. So thank you. Book bolt for creating those. My cover does not have a barcode. I did use AI. This is a new question that Amazon has on here. I did use AI, no text images, many AI images with no editing. I use Dolly. That's what chat GPT uses. And then let me just launch the previewer, just to make sure that this all uploaded correctly looks okay. Oh, it says I only have 23 pages must have a minimum of 24. So let me go back to book bolt here. Let me go ahead and add another one. Let's get, let's go back and do my warthog. Now that my, I'm sure my time limit is up now. Give me a warthog. So I need to add 24 and then please check your file. What was wrong with the, what a cute warthog. All right. So let's get that. Let's add it in here. Page 24. It's warthog in here. Save and let's download it again. Let's open this one. Then let's try to upload this manuscript interior. Adding this cover. Let's launch the previewer. Okay. So I had some problems because I picked six by nine, but remember in book bolt, I actually made it eight, eight and a half by 11. So select a different size and eight and a half by 11. I was wondering why that was doing that. Okay. Now let's try previewing. See, you get to learn along with me. This is beautiful. There we go. Now look at this. We got this great coloring book. Now approve looks great. Okay. So it's going to cost $2 and 84 cents to print translations. We'll launch everywhere. Now the list price, the minimum is five 68. What we saw was kind of, you know, six 99 was kind of the general. So I'm just going to put in six 99 to start with. So you can see if I put it for 10 bucks. So Amazon does take quite a, you know, it costs $2 and 84 cents to print. And then Amazon takes a big cut. But you know, if I'm looking to make $2 profit, I can maybe list it, you know, nine 99 seems to be kind of the sweet spot, but I'm not sure how many you'll sell. You can kind of mess with the pricing as it goes. You get a bump if you put it at nine 99. So it's going to take 72 hours for it to be available to purchase on Amazon. I'm going to go ahead and publish it. So you can see in this video, you know, we researched a niche, we generated the title, the subtitle, the keywords, we created the 50 scheduled maintenance. But we designed the cover. We put all the pages in there. We published to Amazon. We got to wait. They have some scheduled maintenance right now, but I will be back when I actually get this published. Talk soon. Hello, I am back. That's actually been a few days. You can tell I'm wearing different clothes. My hair is a little bit longer. I haven't shaved in a couple of days, but we waited and Amazon, they came back, they sent back and said they denied my book one time. I mean, it's because I set it as low content when it's actually a medium content book. It's not a low content book. So a low content book basically means it's just has lines or something like that. This is a coloring book. So I actually put in some of my content. So they rejected it for that reason, but then I switched it off of low content and then they accepted it. So this is four days after I did the original video where I set it all up. So you can go to Amazon. I will leave a link here. Go buy my coloring book, the African animals coloring book for kids ages four to eight fun and easy safari animal coloring books with lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, and more cute animals for boys and girls. So go, go buy this book. If you would like, I can do a followup video. Let me know in the comments down below. I can do a followup video about how I market this. We could try to turn this into its own business, this coloring book business. But I know there's some of you watching who have thought about doing a coloring book. Okay. I just walked you through it step by step. It does not take very long. Obviously you can go a different direction than I did. You could probably do a better job than I did. I, and I'm, sometimes I rush through things. I'm kind of like, Hey, let's get this done quickly. But anybody watching who's thought about doing this has talked about doing it and has not do it. I want you right now to start this process. Go sign up for book bolts, sign up for a free trial, open up chat, GBT get started on some research of what's going to work well, what keywords are going to do well. Just try, get something out there. It's free to get something out there. Again, the inverse of the channel, Proverbs 14, 23 hard work brings profit. Mere talk leads only to poverty. So I don't stop talking about it. Stop thinking about it. Stop talking about it. Go do it. I want to see the comments here flooded with people who've made their own coloring books or other creative ideas. So let me know if you need any help. Let me know that as well. If you'd like more videos in this series. Um, again, I could do some marketing on this to try and get some sales and we could see how we do. So appreciate you guys very much. God bless you all. Like and subscribe for more side hustle ideas, AI ideas, all from kind of a faith-based perspective. I love Jesus Christ. God bless. Have a great rest of your day.