KDP Uploading - Tears Before Bedtime 😭🤣 · Book Boss Academy

KDP Uploading - Tears Before Bedtime 😭🤣

Does such a thing exist as a step by step with screengrabs about how to set up, say a 6x9 book front cover, full cover, and inside pages on Canva and then upload successfully to KDP?

KDP guidance is a bit hopeless if you are using Canva not their design/ word docs

I am doing a WYR series and have been going around in circles re page set up/ margins/ gutters and bleed - this is hair pulling stuff!

I am trying to log a process to remember for future such as below but think the most important thing is the set up right on Canva to start with and I feel I am in a margin muddle!

Wx 🩷

MY NOTES

Size 6" x 9" - Full Cover = 12.52 x 9.25 - BETTER TO CREATE DESIGNS ON FULL COVER VS FRONT COVER THEN UPLOAD TO FULL COVER?

Or if the latter how do we do that

Canva - File/ settings/ show margins/ show rulers and guides

To do left hand margin have to drag from right across to left

To do bottom margin have to drag from top down to bottom

Beware no images over spine or edges

MAKE SURE PAGE NUMBERS ARE INSIDE MARGIN (Automated ones appear outside - had to drag all in one by one)

Check fit by lowering KDP template over design and then reducing transparency so can see doesn’t go over any of the red/ pink lines

Download as PDF Print/ CMYK

Title and subtitle must match front cover title word for word