Practical guides to publishing puzzle and activity books — written from actually doing it, with the real numbers rather than the usual affiliate hand-waving.
Seasonal books are won or lost on the calendar. The dates a Halloween title has to hit, the eight Halloween themes and how they differ, and the three print settings that cause most rejections when there is no time to fix them.
Read the guide →A shorter selling window than Halloween and a different buyer — often a gift, often for an older reader, which pushes the format toward large print. Eight themes for the season, and how to size the book.
Read the guide →The biggest puzzle book season and the most crowded, where publishing date beats almost everything else you control. The calendar, how to compete without listing history, and the January book almost nobody publishes.
Read the guide →The complete walkthrough: choosing a niche that actually sells, how many puzzles a book needs, the print specifications Amazon enforces, exactly what you earn per copy, and the eight steps from blank page to a live listing. Includes the real royalty maths for a 38-page and a 120-page book.
Read the guide →Book Bolt, A Book Creator, Tangent Templates, PuzzleBindery and the free options — what each one actually does, what it costs over a year, and which is right for you. Including the cases where we are the wrong choice.
Read the comparison →Why Amazon rejects interiors and covers, what every number in the print specification means, and the exact formulas — gutter tiers by page count, bleed dimensions, and the spine multipliers for white and cream paper.
Read the reference →Gutter tiers, the interior-versus-cover bleed difference, spine width per paper stock and the page ceilings nobody mentions. I’ll send the guide and a note when Amazon changes the rules.
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