How to create a children's book with consistent characters to publish on Amazon KDP

in this video I will demonstrate to you how to create a children's book with consistent characters to publish on Amazon KDP when I create children's books I prepare the text first and then the images but now I'm going to show you that it can also be done the other way around since in my previous video I showed you how you can easily create sequenced characters in mid-journey AI I will now use the already created images for my new children's book but first I'll show you how to do a little research on the niche you want the book to be for this you can use various tools that are plugins to the Chrome browser such as the book bolt Search tool but I will use several completely free KDP research tools that I have installed in my browser I will also leave links to these extensions in the description of this video first I start a search for children's story books I see that the results are one hundred thousand which is a very large number so I will want to narrow down the niche [Music] I also get information about popular searches with my phrase but with keywords before and with keywords after I will also try children's story books ages 7 to 10. there are 40 000 results here [Music] okay I'll look into this Niche I see the average BSR is one hundred and twelve thousand and five which is a very large number however the lower the BSR the better a book sells in the market so going forward I will look for books with a much lower BSR at least below 2000 and preferably below one thousand I can also see the average values for the reviews as well as the average price these books sell for now I'm going to add zoo in the search as I want my story to take place in a zoo [Music] great I see that the niche has a value of 69 for search results and keywords I.E above the recommended 60 to use I also see that there are only 846 results I will also look at this Niche children's storybooks ages 3 to 7 and Zoo there are only 1 000 results keyword Niche score is 61 IE this Niche is recommended to use in general I think I'll note that the 7 to 10 Niche is also suitable but now I'm going to make a booklet in the three to seven Niche because the images I have a more suitable for children of that age okay I chose the niche now I looked for the best sellers in that niche I will look at individual books to find ones with better BSR scores I will look at their cover layouts inside Pages the prices they sell for the book sizes the number of pages so that I can create a product that can be competitive with them also it's good to compare with books that were published up to a year or two ago because those that have been on the market longer have other advantages to show good BSR values the lowest BSR in this Niche is 67 which is an extremely good achievement [Music] I will check out this book it has pretty good metrics my magical choices teach kids to choose a great day with their choices [Music] the illustrations are not complicated but accessible to Children there is a little text on each page what strikes me is that the illustrations are not consistent in nature and yet this book is doing remarkably well in sales it's only 40 pages [Music] this way you can do research on the niche to choose and also how the best-selling books in that Niche are shaped foreign [Music] the chat GPT to create the story for the children's book I start with this prompt write me a story about a six-year-old girl who goes to the zoo for the first time and gets to know the different animals she is very happy when she finds out that she will go to the zoo today when she steps into the zoo she is a little saddened when she sees the cages in which the animals are confined but he understands that they provide safety both to the animals themselves and to people so he runs expectantly to the animal cages she is curious about every animal where it comes from and what it eats already in the zoo she also expresses different emotions when meeting the different animals some of them he looks at suspiciously at others he smiles some of the animals she is seeing for the first time in the end she leaves the zoo happy and hopes to return to the animals soon make it 40 pages okay chat GPT returned me 20 stories but I think those are good enough and I might continue them with an extra prompt if you think you want the story to be more detailed then you can tell chat GPT for example for page 1 expand the page 1 which will give you a more detailed story but I like these short stories so I'd rather try to continue the story from page 19 when they got home Maggie Drew pictures of all the animals she saw and showed them to her parents I will ask chat GPT to write me about 10 animals that Maggie has drawn please in relation to page 19 write me which animals did Maggie draw okay the animals that Maggie Drew are baby elephants colorful birds and sleepy koala Bea tall giraffes playful monkeys Majestic Lions slithering snakes hissing alligators fluffy rabbits and waddling penguins therefore before the last page of the book I will also put a few pages with children's drawings of these animals the next thing I'm going to do is ask chat GPT to extract the adjectives and verbs from each page to use in mid-journey describe each page in adjectives and verbs so I can describe it to an illustrator and include what person should be in the picture [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] I will also ask chat GPT for a suitable title for this children's story write me a suitable title for this children's story magical day at the zoo a First Time Adventure okay also write me in about the book paragraph for this children's story great chat GPT also wrote me a great paragraph that I will use for the book description when I publish it on Amazon KDP so now I have to check the text for plagiarism for this purpose I will use dupleychecker.com I paste the text here and after marking that I'm not a robot I choose check plagiarism [Music] great it shows me that the text is 100 unique this is because the prompt I gave chat GPT had a lot of specifics that I made up myself not borrowed from somewhere else If part of the text is marked as plagiarism you need to edit it before you go ahead and submit the whole text again for you can edit the text yourself or use a paraphraser I will leave a link to such a tool in the video description okay now I have text and title the next thing I'm going to do is choose the dimensions of the book from the Amazon KDP book formatting I choose format your paperback and then set trim size bleed and margins foreign [Music] what I see is that if I want to publish the book in hardcover as well I need to make the book at least 75 pages and for a paperback edition which is with standard color ink and white paper the minimum number of pages is 72. so I'm going to try to make my booklet like 76 pages [Music] for hardcover books the choice is only with premium color ink and white paper I will quickly show you the difference between standard color and premium color [Music] apart from a small difference in the brightness of the colors premium color are brighter and more contrasting when printing in color premium color is also twice as expensive when printing if a standard color page costs 0.036 US dollars a premium color page costs 0.070 US dollars so I will publish the paperback book with standard colors and the hardcover book with premium colors I will also show you the printing cost and royalty calculator you can get information about estimated royalty here first I choose a paperback book I select standard color interior page count 76 and Sample price ten dollars I see estimated royalty two dollars and 41 cents if I put in a price of eight dollars and fifty cents the estimated royalty would come out to one dollar and 51 cents which is good enough to start with [Music] [Music] next I'll choose a hardcover book with a premium color interior a price of 12 is clearly not enough it shows me that the minimum price should be 18.30 I'll try with 18 and 20 cents and I see an estimated royalty of only 10 cents 19.20 is 70 cents [Music] you can experiment several times until you reach the estimated royalty values you want [Music] now I'll go back to the size page the closest dimensions for a paperback and a hardcover book are 8.5 by 11 inches a little further down I'll use this table page size with bleeds so that images and texts don't accidentally get cut off if they go out of size so for a size of 8.5 by 11 inches I should use dimensions of 8.625 by 11.25 inches for the paperback edition and 8.375 by 11.25 inches for the hardcover Edition [Music] okay time for the images in my previous video I showed you how we can create consistent characters now I will use them to make the illustrations for this book I'm running the first prompt using the directions chat GPT gave me but I'll also add the links to the images I already have of the girl here before I copy the links from my images imagine prompt Zoo entrance assign or gate to show the entrance to the zoo with a family with a little girl standing in front of it little girl character looking excitedly happily at the entrance to the zoo six years old girl yellow dresses yellow clothes children book illustration style simple cute Pixar Style full color flat color aspect ratio two to three now I'm going to try the same prompt but using my Journey's seed function this is what I do to show you the difference in the results that will be obtained I'm going to highlight this image and from here I'm going to select the envelope then I go to my messages and see what the seed number is now I'll run the same prompt but I'll also add seed at the end and I won't copy the links to the images I already have [Music] here you can see the difference in results here where I use the links from my images it turned out similar in style images and the girl looks like mine I have a consistent character [Music] here I use the seed function and there is really not a single result that I like and can use okay I'm going to pick a few images to start the story by tagging you here which means upscale [Music] a new one and u4 here to enlarge the first and fourth images then I click on the selected image select open in browser and Save [Music] [Music] I can use this image if I change the caption in Photoshop to say zoo [Music] thank you on the next prompt I run I'll change the character to Angry Angry front profile I'll also copy the link to the image with the sad girl as the front foreign [Music] also V3 to get more variants [Music] finally I will save this image but I will have to remove the image of those animals that are next to the girl and in front of the cages in Photoshop [Music] oh [Music] I enlarge the image then with this tool I Mark the object I want to delete and use delete [Music] [Music] one by one I delete all the items I decide [Music] it worked in the end and I will save the image I choose export to PGN file format [Music] likewise in mid-journey you can create all the images you need but I will also show you another easier way as you know in this video here I showed you how to easily create a consistent character then with these ready-made variants of your main character you can make the complete images and directly in canva alone I will open a new project with the required dimensions of 8.625 by 11.25 inches for the paperback book then I go to the left of elements and Run a search for Zoo [Music] first I will choose a background that shows part of a zoo [Music] foreign [Music] then from uploads I choose one of my images [Music] foreign [Music] from elements I can also select and add other relevant images [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] for this elements page I'm going to choose different birds [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] now to each page I made with a background to show a zoo and animals I will also add my girl who will Express different emotions on the different pages [Music] I go to uploads and import all the sequential images I have [Music] thank you [Music] I place the girl here then to make it look like she's standing behind the fence I add from elements and an extra fence [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] I will choose a font to write the title and I will also choose a suitable image foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] I will arrange the booklet like this after each page of text there will be a page of images [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] on each page of text from elements I will select appropriate elements to make the page more interesting [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] this is how I arrange all the pages of the book [Music] [Music] thank you I will also edit the first page to make it colorful [Music] [Music] foreign to do the images for that part of the booklet that contains the childhood drawings of my main character so I'm going to run such prompts in mid-journey that I get a child's drawing drawn by a six-year-old drawn in pencils imagine prompt sketch of a very simple children's drawing of a baby elephant drawn by a six-year-old child colored pencil drawing style very simple drawing aspect ratio 2 3. I choose this elephant [Music] I play the same prompt for every other animal [Music] here I will select my first image [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] suitable images for the children's drawings that Maggie my main character in the book Drew and I will arrange these images on the pages on the title page I will also put an image of my heroin and this is how the children's book with characters of consistent character turned out as a result [Music] all I have left to do is the cover again I get the dimensions for the cover from Amazon using the cover calculator I fill in the required information and get the exact dimensions as well as a template that I can download and use directly in canva [Music] thank you on the front cover I will put the title the author's name and some picture [Music] to make the cover I'm going to use this prompt imagine prompt cover of a children's storybook including six years old girl yellow dresses yellow clothes who is happily walking in the zoo children book illustration style cover of a children's storybook style cute Pixar style colorful oil painting aspect ratio 4x5 I will also copy link to a few of the images of the little girl at the beginning [Music] [Music] this is the result I like the fourth image so I'll choose upscale [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I will put this image on the back cover if you are using the pro version of canva you can remove the background directly from here then I'll also put some of the booklet description I got from chat GPT [Music] foreign [Music] cover is ready from file download I choose to download the cover file and the file with the inside Pages as PDF print format [Music] and there you go I now have a book with consistent characters ready for publication on Amazon KDP that's all for today friends don't miss out on latest Canal content hit the Subscribe button and click the notification Bell to be the first to know when I upload a new video thank you for watching this video and see you soon

Channel: eLibrary1

Views: 34,875

Keywords: Amazon KDP, create a children's story book, Coloring book, sell on Amazon KDP, artificial intelligence, AI, Step by Step AI, format on Amazon KDP, ChatGPT, Midjourney AI, use Photoshop, Canva, midjourney, consistent characters, AI characters, children's story book, openai, duplichecker, paraphrase, ai, mid-journey, chat gpt, children's book, books illustration, design, character, easy, how to, consistency, prompt, paraphras, amazon kdp

Id: rU7rQ6E5oSQ

Length: 42min 18sec (2538 seconds)

Published: Thu May 11 2023