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📚 The MAIN Problems With Kids Books...
You would think creating a children’s book would be easy because the books are short, right? But honestly, writing the story is usually the easy part. It’s everything that comes AFTER the story that starts getting complicated. 😅
📖 𝟭. 𝗦𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦
A spread is when an illustration spans across two facing pages of your book. They can look amazing, but formatting them correctly for print can be a challenge. You have to think about bleed, margins, the gutter, where your characters are positioned, and whether something important is going to disappear into the center of the book. Unless you’re using a program like InDesign or Affinity that can properly handle those layouts, this can become frustrating pretty quickly. 🤯
🎨 𝟮. 𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦
You can hire a professional illustrator, but depending on the book, that can easily cost thousands of dollars. 💸 AI has made illustration much more accessible, but it comes with its own problem: 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. Your character looks perfect on page one, and then five pages later their face changes, their clothes are different, or suddenly they look like an entirely different kid. 😂
🔤 𝟯. 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧
Another HUGE issue I see is text getting lost in the illustrations. 👀 I’ve seen so many DIY children’s books where the artwork is beautiful, but the text is sitting on top of a busy part of the image and becomes difficult to read.
Or someone generates the text directly into the AI image, which creates another problem because now you can’t easily edit it when AI misspells something or creates those weird AI letters. 😵💫 Your text should remain editable and work 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 the illustration — not be permanently baked into it.
📱 𝟰. 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗕
And then there’s the ebook. 😬 Sure, you can create a children’s book in Canva and get a PDF that works for print. But what happens when you want to publish the Kindle version?
Children’s picture books often need a 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱-𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗕 so the illustrations and text stay exactly where they’re supposed to be. Suddenly, you’ve added another technical formatting project to your plate.
💡 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴.
I’ve been building my own 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 with the goal of making this entire process easier — from creating scenes and maintaining character consistency to adding editable text, building your pages and spreads, and ultimately getting your book into the formats you need to publish. 📚✨
And we’re past the idea stage...
🧪 𝗜 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁.
If you’ve been wanting to create a children’s book — or you think children’s books could become a bigger part of your publishing business — I would recommend 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘄. 🔒
🚀 When the Children’s Book Studio launches, 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁.
I’m trying to remove as much of the technical headache as possible so you can spend more time actually creating the book... instead of trying to figure out how the heck to format it. 😂
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