450: How to Make Money with Kids Books on Amazon

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Royalties from book sales is one of the most passive of all my income streams.

After you create a book, with print or digital distribution handled by Amazon, you can collect royalties for years.

And while I enjoy the writing process and have published several titles myself, I have yet to venture into the world of children's books.

(Despite having the outlines of a couple kids books on my phone for the last two or three years!)

This week I connected with Matthew Ralph, a children’s book author from England, who recently quit his full-time marketing job to focus on his publishing and freelancing business.

His bestselling work to date is Sam the Speedy Sloth. The idea of which came to him while walking through an airport, and by the time his flight landed, the book was almost written.

Matt has since added more books to his portfolio, while freelancing to help other self-publishing authors.

Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to learn:

what the children's book creation process is like
the most effective ways he’s found to market his books
how he’s expanding his portfolio and entering different markets

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0:00.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because building extra
0:04.5	income streams is the best way to recession proof your life. Action-packed episode for you today
0:10.4	on earning passive royalties from products you create, courting influencers, and even a racing
0:16.0	saloth. You're about to be Matt Ralph from MattRalfTheWriter.com. He's a children's book author
0:21.6	out of England whose self-publishing journey started as a side hustle and his best selling work
0:26.5	to date is Sam The Speedy Saloth. Stick around in this one to learn about the children's book
0:31.8	creation process in the most effective ways Matt has found to market his books, earning thousands
0:37.5	of dollars in royalties and Amazon author rewards in the process. Now because there are quite a few
0:43.6	steps to go from idea to successful book launch and put together a self-publishing project checklist,
0:49.6	something I go through for each and every one of my own books, which I'm actually working on
0:53.6	finalizing a new title. I'm excited to share with you guys, but you can grab that checklist for free
0:58.4	at sidehustlenation.com slash kids books. All one word to make sure you don't miss a step along
1:03.9	the way. That link is also where you're finally full text summary and all the resources mentioned
1:08.8	in this episode with Matt. Once again, that's at sidehustlenation.com slash kids books. I'll be back
1:15.1	after this call with Matt. Ready? Let's do it. I've always been interested in writing. When I was
1:23.2	little I always was writing stories and things like that. I think I've got quite a vivid imagination
1:28.4	or so that's what my parents have always told me and one day I was in the airport. This would have
1:33.9	been in 2017 or 2018 and I saw a poster for a sloth and I just for some reason I just thought
1:41.3	it would be funny to have a children's book that had a sloth that was quick or speedy because
1:47.3	that's very opposite to what a sloth normally is and suddenly while I was on the plane I obviously
1:52.8	didn't really have anything to do because you can't use your phone or anything like that on the plane.
1:57.9	The first line of my book just sort of flashed into my mind about this speedy sloth and you know
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