Claude Code + KDP: AI Kids Book Launch Checklist
Follow every step to create, publish, and optimize an AI-generated children's book on Amazon KDP for passive royalty income.
Based on: Claude Code + Amazon KDP = $151k by Wholesale Ted
Follow every step to create, publish, and optimize an AI-generated children's book on Amazon KDP for passive royalty income.
Based on: Claude Code + Amazon KDP = $151k by Wholesale Ted
What if you could earn over $150,000 a month from a single children's book you made almost entirely on autopilot? That number sounds absurd — until you see the Amazon bestseller rank data that backs it up, and realize the book was created by one person using AI tools you can access today.
Here's the problem most people run into: they know AI-powered publishing is real, they've heard the numbers, but they have no idea where to start. Do you pick the right niche? How do you generate hundreds of illustrated pages without being a designer or a writer? How do you make Amazon's algorithm actually find your book? Every step feels like a wall, and most people quit before they ever upload a single file.
Imagine instead waking up to royalty notifications from Amazon — checks for books you built in a single afternoon, sitting at the top of search results because you chose a niche with zero competition, earning $13.33 on every single sale without ever touching inventory, packing boxes, or dealing with customers. That's exactly what Wholesale Ted breaks down in her viral tutorial, and it's exactly what this checklist was built to help you replicate.
Sarah (Wholesale Ted) has built a real one-person AI business and has spent years teaching her community how to do the same. She doesn't just theorize — she shows the actual books, the actual BSR numbers, the actual KDP profit calculator, and the exact Claude Code prompts she used to generate 130 illustrated pages in 15 minutes. Her workflow is tested, her niche research method is repeatable, and her SEO strategy for Amazon is something most self-publishers completely overlook.
This checklist captures every single step from her full tutorial — from using Claude to find a low-competition horse-themed niche, to installing Hexfield for AI image generation, to automating the PDF build, generating the cover with spine, and uploading to Amazon KDP with an SEO-optimized title, subtitle, description, and keywords. Nothing is skipped, nothing is vague.
If you're ready to stop watching other people publish AI books and start building your own, this checklist is your step-by-step execution guide. Open it, follow it in order, and you'll have a fully formatted, cover-ready, KDP-listed children's book before the week is out.
Every checklist item comes with actionable notes to guide you — things like "Don't forget to do this before you start," "Avoid this common mistake," or "Set a reminder for 30 days out." Nothing vague, just clear next steps.
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