I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving THIS week! 🍂💛 I intended to publish this video last Thursday, but then as many of you know, I had that whole fiasco with my account getting hacked into, and it was super stressful! Thankfully, however, I got it back 36 hours later, and so I'm now good to go! As always, thanks a MILLION for all your guys' support!! I really appreciate it! 💛💛💛 P.S. Don't forget to check out Book Bolt's premium plan!! It's honestly got everything you could possibly need! ✨ sarahproofreads.com/book-bolt-premium
is there a way say i have a page after the cover that has a dinosaur holding a sign and says this Dinosaur coloring page belongs to. my question is when I upload it and preview it the dinosaur isn't in color for that page how can i get just that page and of course the cover page to be color only and the rest normal color pages plain white like usual if that makes sense sorry english isn't the best ..
@@SarahLarson YO! I just finished the second one too!!! This one I had to make the cover from scratch in Canva, (rather than just download one) It came out pretty decent! Thanks for the inspiration.
I learned alot about the colouring books. Thank you. I was curious about them. I use Bookbolt and I love it. It can take up to 72 hours and sometimes bit longer for KDP to actually publish books though.
Thank you for your video. I have Bookbolt pro and love it. Wondering what the premium training covers please? I cannot find a lot of info about the plan. I'm Considering upgrading but wondering if it's worth it. Appreciate you sharing. thanks
The training's great! There are 12 videos, each with a lot of meat to them. Essentially, Neil covers how to create and sell a KDP book from start to finish, and he goes over everything you might think of! Would 100% recommend.
Great video! Curious, I noticed that you had one blank page after a coloring page. Is that the backside of the page with the coloring image on it? From what I've learned doing my research Book Bolt doesn't seem to do facing pages/ back to back design.
Great question! And yes, you’re correct. Book Bolt doesn’t do this automatically, so if you want to make sure that your coloring pages only print on one side of the sheet, all you have to do is leave an empty page between each design. I always do this, since then there aren’t any issues about the colors bleeding, it makes the book larger, and customers can also tear out the pages if they’d like and display them without having to worry about sacrificing the other coloring page on the back. Hope that helps! 💛
I don’t know everything about Book Bolt’s keyword research tool, but from my experience, yes! Using the provided keywords has definitely allowed my books to rank better and sell more quickly. :)
I was wondering with bookbolt we can’t design the inside of the cover page, right? So what’s called page 1 (Odd) in bookbold is the page on the right after opening it. Is that correct? That would make page 2 (Even) and 3 (Odd) the first double page. Even numbers always being the left page and odd numbers always being the right pages…. I‘m asking because I would like to add the same colored frame to all the double pages (one double page is yellow, one blue etc.) Please help me out here. Thx so much 💗
@@SarahLarson @Mindfulnine so if i want to have it to where the pictures are on one page , with the back of that page being blank (for if they want to tear it out to hang it up) So if they happen to like back to back images, they would have the option to do so. Would i do 1/3/5/7/9/11 (only on odds ) then or???
so if i want to have it to where the pictures are on one page , with the back of that page being blank (for if they want to tear it out to hang it up) So if they happen to like back to back images, they would have the option to do so. Would i do 1/3/5/7/9/11 (only on odds ) then or???
Thank you so much for the video! Just curious, are there any licensing requirements for the coloring pages from Book Bolt? When publishing I know Amazon asks if you own the content.
This is awesome! Thank you! Question for these different niches do you use different publishing names? Thus far I've just been using my actual name. And if changing the publishing name does that negatively impact ownership in some type of way? Edit: and I noticed you used the keyword search as your title -- is that something that helps your books be located better? If you already have a video I'll definitely take a look. Thanks again!
So glad to hear this could help you! And yes, I do use different publishing names depending on my target audience! I started with my actual name in the beginning, and then I started using names that ended in things like "Press" or "Publishing" to look a bit more professional. Doesn't negatively affect your ownership at all! And yes, I almost always put my primary keyword as the title to help it rank better. Hope that helps!!
Hey Sarah, can you explain a bit more about using a different publishing names in another video. I tried to keep my notebooks separate from my kids books by using a different name and got rejected as was told my customers would be confused?? IDK
I'm honestly not sure what Amazon's standards are regarding author names. I've been getting that error a lot as well! But then I just go back and change it to something else, and it typically goes through. Usually adding "Press" or "Publishing" or something like that will help a lot too!
Odds are super low of that happening, but ultimately, just make your content unique! Add a fun border, create a "This Book Belongs To" page, change up the order, add in different coloring pages from other sources, etc. You've got tons of options!
I made one and downloaded the CMYK file. But when I tried uploading it to Amazon KDP, it said “Error processing interior there was a problem processing your interior. Please check your file and try again”. How do you convert the zip file to a .pdf?
Hmmm, interesting error here. Your PDF should just be downloading as one full PDF. Try extracting the zip file, and see if your full PDF is inside! If not, feel free to reply back. :)
Hey Sarah, I have the premium graphics and for some reason bookbolt isn’t letting me upload them, I did it exactly how you did it. Do you know why this might be?
You may have to contact Book Bolt support for that! If you’re doing exactly what I’m doing, I’m not sure what the issue could be. But feel free to email me screenshots or message me on Instagram, and I’d be happy to take a closer peek to see if I can figure it out!
There is no Book Bolt Premium, at least in the location where I am at.. It's either the standard version for 9.99 per month, or the Pro version for 19.99 per month
Ah, you've got the pro version! I'm referring to the premium plan, which is a little harder to find and an additional $10 a month. You can find it here: sarahproofreads.com/book-bolt-premium. Hope that helps!
Nope! It's automatically copyrighted. In standard high-content works, a copyright page is usually considered a fail-safe, since it's not technically necessary but discourages art theft. :)
Definitely not the only way! I just think it can be much more difficult to create the graphics on your own, though you still can. Creative Fabrica is also excellent when it comes to graphics, so absolutely check them out as well :) (sarahproofreads.com/creative-fabrica). Hope that helps!
I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving THIS week! 🍂💛 I intended to publish this video last Thursday, but then as many of you know, I had that whole fiasco with my account getting hacked into, and it was super stressful! Thankfully, however, I got it back 36 hours later, and so I'm now good to go! As always, thanks a MILLION for all your guys' support!! I really appreciate it! 💛💛💛
P.S. Don't forget to check out Book Bolt's premium plan!! It's honestly got everything you could possibly need! ✨ sarahproofreads.com/book-bolt-premium
is there a way say i have a page after the cover that has a dinosaur holding a sign and says this Dinosaur coloring page belongs to. my question is when I upload it and preview it the dinosaur isn't in color for that page how can i get just that page and of course the cover page to be color only and the rest normal color pages plain white like usual if that makes sense sorry english isn't the best ..
I like you way of teaching without wasting time.
Thank you for good work
I made my first book following this.
Yay!! I’m immensely happy to hear this video helped you get your first book out there!! 🥳
@@SarahLarson YO! I just finished the second one too!!! This one I had to make the cover from scratch in Canva, (rather than just download one) It came out pretty decent! Thanks for the inspiration.
How are sales going?
I learned alot about the colouring books. Thank you. I was curious about them. I use Bookbolt and I love it. It can take up to 72 hours and sometimes bit longer for KDP to actually publish books though.
Thanks a lot Sarah for showing us this inspiring behind the scene of how you make your coloring books. It definitely got me motivated again about kdp!
I'm so glad this video could help you!! Wishing you all the best! 💛
Thank you, this helped me get my first project to KDP
Yay!! Super happy to hear that!
Starts at 11:04 just for the people who want to get to the point
Hi Sarah, how do you save your book for uploading to KDP and how to upload to KDP? Thank you , your video is overall very helpful
Thank you so much for the information done easy!!
Thank you so much Sarah for showing us the whole book bolt process. Do I need a credit card or paypal ? to pay it the premium plan ?
Happy to help! Yes, I believe you'll need to pay via card to access the premium plan.
Where on Book bolt do you request the graphics??
Thank you for your video. I have Bookbolt pro and love it. Wondering what the premium training covers please? I cannot find a lot of info about the plan. I'm Considering upgrading but wondering if it's worth it. Appreciate you sharing. thanks
The training's great! There are 12 videos, each with a lot of meat to them. Essentially, Neil covers how to create and sell a KDP book from start to finish, and he goes over everything you might think of! Would 100% recommend.
Thank you for the lovely information.
Great video! Curious, I noticed that you had one blank page after a coloring page. Is that the backside of the page with the coloring image on it? From what I've learned doing my research Book Bolt doesn't seem to do facing pages/ back to back design.
Great question! And yes, you’re correct. Book Bolt doesn’t do this automatically, so if you want to make sure that your coloring pages only print on one side of the sheet, all you have to do is leave an empty page between each design. I always do this, since then there aren’t any issues about the colors bleeding, it makes the book larger, and customers can also tear out the pages if they’d like and display them without having to worry about sacrificing the other coloring page on the back. Hope that helps! 💛
@@SarahLarson Awesome! Thanks so much for the quick and informative feedback. :)
Hi Sarah, I hope you are doing well. My question to know if the keywords that we take from book bolt are reliable
I don’t know everything about Book Bolt’s keyword research tool, but from my experience, yes! Using the provided keywords has definitely allowed my books to rank better and sell more quickly. :)
Me again lol. Do you automatically become available to all the amazon sites listed or do you choose, also is the cost variable?
I was wondering with bookbolt we can’t design the inside of the cover page, right?
So what’s called page 1 (Odd) in bookbold is the page on the right after opening it. Is that correct?
That would make page 2 (Even) and 3 (Odd) the first double page. Even numbers always being the left page and odd numbers always being the right pages….
I‘m asking because I would like to add the same colored frame to all the double pages (one double page is yellow, one blue etc.)
Please help me out here.
Thx so much 💗
Yes, you've got that right! I'm sure your book's going to be gorgeous. :)
@@SarahLarson @Mindfulnine so if i want to have it to where the pictures are on one page , with the back of that page being blank (for if they want to tear it out to hang it up) So if they happen to like back to back images, they would have the option to do so. Would i do 1/3/5/7/9/11 (only on odds ) then or???
so if i want to have it to where the pictures are on one page , with the back of that page being blank (for if they want to tear it out to hang it up) So if they happen to like back to back images, they would have the option to do so. Would i do 1/3/5/7/9/11 (only on odds ) then or???
Thank you so much for the video! Just curious, are there any licensing requirements for the coloring pages from Book Bolt? When publishing I know Amazon asks if you own the content.
Glad you liked the video! And thankfully, no licensing requirements! You're always good to put that you own the copyright. :)
This is awesome! Thank you! Question for these different niches do you use different publishing names? Thus far I've just been using my actual name. And if changing the publishing name does that negatively impact ownership in some type of way? Edit: and I noticed you used the keyword search as your title -- is that something that helps your books be located better? If you already have a video I'll definitely take a look. Thanks again!
So glad to hear this could help you! And yes, I do use different publishing names depending on my target audience! I started with my actual name in the beginning, and then I started using names that ended in things like "Press" or "Publishing" to look a bit more professional. Doesn't negatively affect your ownership at all! And yes, I almost always put my primary keyword as the title to help it rank better. Hope that helps!!
@@SarahLarson Thank you so much for you time and following up!
another great video. How do you make the spine a different color....?
I just take a line, increase the thickness, change the color, and stretch it down the middle!
So are there 3 Bookbolt options? Newbie, pro and premium?
Hey Sarah, can you explain a bit more about using a different publishing names in another video. I tried to keep my notebooks separate from my kids books by using a different name and got rejected as was told my customers would be confused?? IDK
I'm honestly not sure what Amazon's standards are regarding author names. I've been getting that error a lot as well! But then I just go back and change it to something else, and it typically goes through. Usually adding "Press" or "Publishing" or something like that will help a lot too!
@@SarahLarson thank you
Is it okay if you leave the blank page?
premium is 60 bucks now a bit pricey for my blood since I also have a pro version of Canva and Kittl think I'll stick with the pro version.
Do you need to change the images
How do we avoid getting flagged for duplicate content if we use bookbolt. Isn't everybody using the same stuff?
Odds are super low of that happening, but ultimately, just make your content unique! Add a fun border, create a "This Book Belongs To" page, change up the order, add in different coloring pages from other sources, etc. You've got tons of options!
@@SarahLarson Thanks, you can ignore my question now as you just answered it here lol.
how do you upload the cover
Welcome Back
Thank you!!
I made one and downloaded the CMYK file. But when I tried uploading it to Amazon KDP, it said “Error processing interior there was a problem processing your interior. Please check your file and try again”. How do you convert the zip file to a .pdf?
Hmmm, interesting error here. Your PDF should just be downloading as one full PDF. Try extracting the zip file, and see if your full PDF is inside! If not, feel free to reply back. :)
Hey Sarah, I have the premium graphics and for some reason bookbolt isn’t letting me upload them, I did it exactly how you did it. Do you know why this might be?
You may have to contact Book Bolt support for that! If you’re doing exactly what I’m doing, I’m not sure what the issue could be. But feel free to email me screenshots or message me on Instagram, and I’d be happy to take a closer peek to see if I can figure it out!
Hey Sarah, do you have to have Premium do get the 4 sets of graphics? I have the Pro version
Yes, it's the next level up! I had the pro version beforehand as well.
There is no Book Bolt Premium, at least in the location where I am at.. It's either the standard version for 9.99 per month, or the Pro version for 19.99 per month
@@louisd95714It’s a bit more hidden! You can find it at this link: sarahproofreads.com/book-bolt-premium.
@@SarahLarson OK, thank you!
where do you get the file with free design? I have a book bolt account but cant see them. I the 19.99 tho
Ah, you've got the pro version! I'm referring to the premium plan, which is a little harder to find and an additional $10 a month. You can find it here: sarahproofreads.com/book-bolt-premium. Hope that helps!
I don't think that Book Bolt has any Premium Plan? Correct me If I am wrong.
They do! It's just a bit more hidden. :) You can find it here: sarahproofreads.com/book-bolt-premium.
SarahLarson They have only 2 Plans. They have Pro Plan but not Premium.
@@shoppersdream See the above link. :)
Did you added copyright page?
Nope! It's automatically copyrighted. In standard high-content works, a copyright page is usually considered a fail-safe, since it's not technically necessary but discourages art theft. :)
Do you feel the only way to be successful with graphics is by purchasing the premium plan?
Definitely not the only way! I just think it can be much more difficult to create the graphics on your own, though you still can. Creative Fabrica is also excellent when it comes to graphics, so absolutely check them out as well :) (sarahproofreads.com/creative-fabrica). Hope that helps!
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Where do you get the blank pages with border?