How to self-publish a children’s paperback with Word is described in this post. A template to edit to create your own book, step-by-step directions, and a video will help you easily produce a simple 8.5″ X 8.5″ paperback. This post is for would-be authors who would like a more simple method to get started.
The video explains much of the process, and there is also a free step-by-step directions instant download. The Word Doc sample file may be downloaded and changed by you to create your own children’s book to upload to KDP Amazon. This is for a book with “no bleed” which means the color does not extend to the edge of the pages. There is a white border around the images and text on each page. I did not add formatting such as page numbers for this project and kept it simple, for my writing friends who do not have professional software such as Adobe Creative Suite. Word 2007 or later may be used to complete a manuscript.
In the course, there are additional templates for publishing children’s paperbacks with full bleed (color to the edge of the paper). I used the PowerPoint template to publish The Frogs Buy a New House: An Economics Story for Children, which is sold on Amazon.
If you are interested in learning more, the full course has everything needed to self-publish chapter and children’s eBooks and paperbacks.
Using only Microsoft Word, fonts cannot be embedded, so the best fonts are traditional ones such as Times New Roman. 
I hope you will like this template, video, and directions.
You might also like to know how to not compress images in Word, although the information is covered above.
You might also like to read my post about all of the resources included in my self-publishing class.
At this post, a template to edit to create your own book, free, step-by-step directions, and a video will help you easily produce a simple 8.5″ X 8.5″ paperback. This post is for would-be authors who would like a more simple method to get started.
These are just some of the books I self-published or helped others self-publish using the templates included in the self-publishing course.
Self-publishing? Are you interested in writing and selling books yourself? If you like learning and writing, you might like the course I made with everything I learned helping other people self-publish.
Review by Castle View — Carolyn Wilhelm recorded every step she went through while she was self-publishing her books and has created a course for others who want to know what’s involved, step by step for Self-Publishing from the Very, Very Beginning.
Each of these main sections has several subsections that go into easy-to-understand detail. Carolyn shows you what to do right on the screen so you have the option to split-screen your own screen and follow along as you watch the lessons.
Gary Roen is a nationally syndicated book critic and offers free book reviews if you follow all his directions which are at this link.
