Apparently I have entered the “people are copying my work now” stage of entrepreneurship. 😂 Saw a post today promoting a Black fantasy/fairy brand with a design, aesthetic, setup, and even “melanin” naming that looked VERY familiar. So naturally I commented: “Wow! This design and setup looks oddly familiar… 🤔” And then she blocked me. 😭 Baby, I didn’t even SAY you copied me. But if the shoe fits…apparently it also blocks. 😂 Anyway, this is your reminder to DOCUMENT YOUR WORK. Save your drafts. Save your publication dates. Save your listings. Save your original files. Save your posts. Inspiration is one thing. Looking at somebody else’s lane and deciding to move your furniture in is another. 🙃 Hers…vs. Mine

🤑 THE ANSWER IS $7,081 ACROSS ALL FORMATS! Let's play a little game of 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗨𝗖𝗛... that book is earning. Without using tools, I want you to find out how much this book is making per month!! 🌺 THE ADULT ADHD BLUEPRINT FOR DECLUTTERING Here are a few facts: 👉 It was published last year 👉 Has 440 reviews 👉 The author has self-published many books 👇 DROP YOUR GUESSES IN THE COMMENTS, AND I WILL REVEAL THE ANSWER LATER ⭐

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You would think creating a children’s book would be easy because the books are short, right? But honestly, writing the story is usually the easy part. It’s everything that comes AFTER the story that starts getting complicated. 😅 📖 𝟭. 𝗦𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦 A spread is when an illustration spans across two facing pages of your book. They can look amazing, but formatting them correctly for print can be a challenge. You have to think about bleed, margins, the gutter, where your characters are positioned, and whether something important is going to disappear into the center of the book. Unless you’re using a program like InDesign or Affinity that can properly handle those layouts, this can become frustrating pretty quickly. 🤯 🎨 𝟮. 𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 You can hire a professional illustrator, but depending on the book, that can easily cost thousands of dollars. 💸 AI has made illustration much more accessible, but it comes with its own problem: 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. Your character looks perfect on page one, and then five pages later their face changes, their clothes are different, or suddenly they look like an entirely different kid. 😂 🔤 𝟯. 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 Another HUGE issue I see is text getting lost in the illustrations. 👀 I’ve seen so many DIY children’s books where the artwork is beautiful, but the text is sitting on top of a busy part of the image and becomes difficult to read. Or someone generates the text directly into the AI image, which creates another problem because now you can’t easily edit it when AI misspells something or creates those weird AI letters. 😵‍💫 Your text should remain editable and work 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 the illustration — not be permanently baked into it. 📱 𝟰. 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗕 And then there’s the ebook. 😬 Sure, you can create a children’s book in Canva and get a PDF that works for print. But what happens when you want to publish the Kindle version? Children’s picture books often need a 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱-𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗕 so the illustrations and text stay exactly where they’re supposed to be. Suddenly, you’ve added another technical formatting project to your plate.

It's time for another VISUALIZATION PROMPT! Imagine checking your book earnings and realizing that the money you made from your books just paid for something meaningful to you. 👉 Use a photo of yourself and this prompt....Complete this sentence: “I can’t believe my book earnings just bought me __________.” Now visualize that moment. Create an inspiring, realistic image of me enjoying, holding, experiencing, or celebrating [WHAT MY BOOK EARNINGS BOUGHT ME], knowing that it was paid for entirely with money earned from my books. Show subtle signs of my success as an author, such as my book nearby, a laptop showing book sales or royalties, or a notification celebrating my earnings. Make the scene feel exciting but believable—the kind of moment where I stop and think, “My books actually paid for this.” The overall feeling should represent freedom, accomplishment, possibility, and the real-life rewards of becoming a successful author.