Redheaded Jill

My newest business venture is publishing with Kindle KDP. I am starting out with journals, but plan to eventually share recipes in cook books and more.

With Kindle KDP essentially you do this…

1. Design a cover (for me it’s a journal cover)
2. Create the design on Canva (or similar software)
3. Create a design for blank journal pages (120 pages)
4. Upload the designs to Kindle KDP
5. Give everything a title, and details.
6. Set a price (for me I’ve been doing 6×9″ journals for $9.99)
7. Upload, and after 3 days they’ll check for errors and publish your listing!

Things that upset Kindle KDP. Repetition. If you label something as “watercolor floral journal: this 6×9 journal has 120 pages and is covered in watercolor flowers” Kindle will say, “No way! That’s too much repetition. That’s sketchy!”

So… what I have started doing instead is simplifying.

Journal: 6×9″ blank journal with 120 lined pages. This journal cover has watercolor red and blue flowers.

Keep everything specific yet simple.

Is that the most alluring listing? I don’t know… probably not. But it’s my first couple of weeks trying things out!

For me to print a journal they charge about $3.00. So anything after that is my profit. They also let you print copies for yourself as samples at cost!

I have done blank journals, one planner with 26 memory verses, and a role playing game journal with blank pages for character and plot development.

You can make hard copies, paperback copies, e-books, and more. So far I’ve stuck with paperbacks, but you can do anything you want. I have seen cookbooks, coloring books, instruction pamphlets, romance novels, pretty much anything. I would eventually like to get into creating children’s books, but that’s going to require a lot more time than I currently have. : )