Step 3: Creating Your Activity Book Interior It is time to start creating our interior. So, now that we have all our puzzles downloaded to our computer… Once you have all the other puzzles together, we can move on to putting these together and making them stand out.įor this example, we are going to use the Sudoku, the Maze above, and this Kakuro puzzle…Ĭreating these puzzle interiors with PuzzleWiz took all of a few minutes instead of the mind numbing frustration you would go through doing them manually. I would aim for 25-50 different puzzles at first which makes for a good sized book that you can sell at a decent profit margin without paying KDP too much.ĭownload each of these as a 1 page to your computer. Step 2: Repeat Step 1 For All Your Puzzlesįor the second step, you need to decide how long your activity book will be. Simply click that link, and you will be able to download your puzzle! You will see a green bar at the top that says when it is done. We are going to SKIP this option, because we are going to be manipulating the interiors once you download them.Ĭlick on submit, give it a few seconds, and out pops your puzzle! You have the option to include solutions, match puzzle and solution page numbers and add page numbers to the interior. These are all Google fonts and available for commercial use.įinally, select the difficulty and the type as you want them to be on the page. Since we are going to do an activity book, simply select a SINGLE page for the puzzle (no need to do more, as we are going to create different puzzles to mash up in a single product).įrom there, you can select the font that you want from the drop down menu. For this example, I am going to select Bleed, 6X9 (as this is the book size we are going to create), as well as double sided or single sided and the number of pages. Select Sudoku, and you are presented with the different options: So, let’s start with Sudoku as the first puzzle we want to include in our activity book. This way, each and every puzzle you put into your book will be unique! Other puzzle types like Crosswords are going to allow you to upload your own words to create the puzzle. Puzzles like Sudoku are all created in the backend with math, and then kicks out the puzzle for you. Once you are inside, you will notice that it includes multiple types of puzzles that can be created, many with just a single button click. So before we go any further, either log in to your Book Bolt account, or grab one here. This software is INCLUDED in your Book Bolt account if you have a PRO account. This software allows you to generate these puzzles with the click of a button. What we are going to do is create a bunch of puzzles, and then tweak the interiors slightly to make them niched down and standing out from everyone else on Amazon!īook Bolt recently acquired a software called PuzzleWiz.io. We have already decided we don’t actually want to create the puzzle interiors by hand. NOTE: All the functionality below has been moved inside of the Book Bolt Studio! Step 1: Creating Your Puzzle Interiors For Your Activity Book This method will allow you to put them together and include a little something extra that will make your book stick out in the results when a customer actually lands on your product. Today, we want to show you how to create these activity books, and NICHE them down by going the extra mile. After about an hour, come back to this article. If you don’t believe us, just sit down and try to create a sudoku puzzle by hand. The issue though, is that puzzles can take FOREVER to create manually. Rinse and repeat, change it up, make them unique, and then come up with a stunning cover to put up on Amazon and BAM, you have a new product that people are actively buying. Think of an activity book as 1 page of sudoku, followed by a word search, followed by a maze, followed by a kakuro puzzle. These are not full sudoku books, or books full of mazes. So, what is an activity book? An activity book is simply a book full of different types of puzzles all mashed together into a single product. We should probably also mention that Amazon is currently shipping these without month long delays! While everyone is trying to keep busy at home, the one thing that we are seeing a drastic uptick in sales from is ACTIVITY BOOKS! It keeps your mind active, makes you less bored, and they are cheap to purchase off of Amazon. It is hard to sell those when people are not actively OUT and doing those hobbies or leaving their house to go to their 9-5 job. Many of the books that we end up creating and selling are planners, log books, journals… all for specific hobbies and professions. It is no surprise that while everyone is stuck at home during this time that book sales across the board when it comes to low content books are down.
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