Twenty-four checkpoints for page setup, line quality, bleed, and cover specs, so a print run doesn't come back with a gutter margin problem you only find after the proof copy arrives.
A novel manuscript survives a lot of small mistakes. A coloring book doesn't: a gutter margin that swallows half a design, a line weight that prints thinner on page 40 than page 4, a "blank" left page that turns out not to be blank. These are production problems, not writing problems, and they only show up once you're looking at a physical proof copy. This checklist is built to catch them before that proof copy ships.
Work through each section against your actual interior file and a physical proof copy, not just the on-screen preview.
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Get the structural basics right before anything else matters.
Resolution and line weight problems are invisible on screen and obvious in print.
Every page count change quietly invalidates your old cover file.
The online previewer catches less than a physical proof copy does.
Coloring books live or die on whether the right person finds them.
A finished coloring book still needs a plan for what happens next.
Frontlist tracks interior status, cover status, and proof stage separately, so nothing ships before it's actually ready.
Track your first title freeActivity books and workbooks run into nearly identical bleed, resolution, and proof-copy problems. If your catalog spans more than coloring books, the KDP backlist audit checklist covers the broader set of checkpoints, and this page walks through how Frontlist tracks all of it in one place.
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