I know so many artists who want to create artwork for books (picture books, coloring books, planners, activity books, etc.) but keep that long-held dream in the back of their minds because they don’t know where to start.
I’m on a mission to get artists excited about creating books and show them that it’s much easier than it seems.
In the end, a book is just a PDF that you upload to a print-on-demand platform!
wait, what kind of books?
There are many different types of books that artists can self-publish, but a few of the most common are:
publishing has changed
In the “old days” artists made samples for books, pitched them to companies, and waited months (or longer) before hearing anything about their submission.
Now, artists can create books, list them for sale, and start building an audience around their books in a matter of weeks or months without ever contacting a publisher at all.
but, topics matter
Of course, artists can’t publish ANY book and see it sell like hotcakes. To state the obvious, books need to be based on trending, sellable topics in order to get noticed by buyers.
Knowledge about what is selling and trending used to be industry knowledge held by publishers, but now artists can go online and use tools to find out what is selling, and what niches are hot and undersaturated!
Check out my Amazon Author Page to see all the books I’ve published so far.
I made you a list of 75+ trending book topics
I don’t want you to have to wonder what topics are sellable or trending, and I want you to feel inspired (not overwhelmed) by the idea of designing a book.
This free guide has over 75 trending book topic ideas (from one-day projects to multi-month projects depending on your schedule) so you can dip your toe (or deep dive) into books.
includes 3 lessons from my self-published artist class!
Along with this guide, I’m sharing the first three lessons of my Self-Published Artist class because I have so much to share after spending the last few months planning and designing my picture book Fern the Fearful Fox.
Come join me in these lessons as we dive into what it means to self-publish as an artist and start taking steps toward your dream of becoming a published artist/author. See you there!
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