How to Create Story Books for Kids and Make Thousands on Amazon KDP

About this video

Sean Dollwet walks through making children’s story books for Amazon KDP, starting by reverse-engineering a successful example. Using BookBeam estimates, he presents creator claims that example books earn from tens to a few hundred dollars a day in royalties, with stronger sales in the holiday quarter. He breaks down one book as about 92 pages, 6x9, with 10 stories plus introduction and conclusion, each story roughly seven pages after its opening image. He then generates a story with an AI prompt asking for about 1,500 words with lessons in confidence, friendship and courage, stresses reading and editing rather than publishing raw AI output, and creates chapter images by asking AI for a Midjourney-style prompt based on a reference image, warning not to copy competitors. For outsourcing, he points to The Urban Writers for AI-assisted, human-edited manuscripts and to Fiverr for covers, citing example gigs at $15 and $25. Marketing, in his view, rests on Amazon ads and reviews, plus consistent TikTok posting of one to three videos a day for months.

Key takeaways

• Reverse-engineer a proven story book’s length, trim size, chapter count and words per story before writing your own version
• Use AI to draft roughly 1,500-word stories with a clear moral, then edit them yourself instead of publishing raw output
• Create one original illustration per chapter and repeat the text-plus-image process across about 10 stories
• Outsourcing is an alternative: ghostwriting services for the manuscript and Fiverr designers for the cover
• The example book relied mainly on Amazon ads rather than social media, but he argues consistent TikTok posting can give a new book an edge

Episode details: published November 22, 2024 · 11:03 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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