How to publish an adult coloring book (and why you should)

A few weeks ago I got obsessed with adult coloring books, after realizing that about half of the top bestsellers on Amazon fall into this category, and that even the boring ones are doing pretty well (top 1000 or so, any are in the top 100).

In contrast, my fiction is closer to 10,000, which means I’m selling about 10 copies a day. But fiction is hard work and takes a long time – adult coloring books should be much faster and easier to make, and potential will sell much better. If I can get into the top 100, that’s about a thousand sales a day. At $2 profit, that’s $60K a month.

Holy shit, right?

So this month I’m going to focus on making some of my own. I’ve hired some artists to help, and will also be pulling copyright free images from out of print books. That will let me produce much faster, most just using photoshop to make collages of artwork.

If you think these are fun ideas, please share the covers on Pinterest or social media. I plan to have these and others up on Amazon within a month.

I also made a video talking about adult coloring books, formatting and production, and my publishing plans.