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The Visual Book Flow for Any Illustrated Book

Illustrated books with a consistent style on every page

Picture books, coloring books, workbooks and illustrated non-fiction. Set the style and references once, storyboard the pages, write the text in your voice, and export print-ready files.

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  • Style and characters locked with references
  • A storyboard for every page
  • Print-ready for any of nine trim sizes

book written from your idea or notes

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Why Illustrated Books Look Homemade

Illustration is where AI books most often give themselves away.

Nothing matches

Characters, colors and line weight shift from page to page.

Prompting page by page

Making each image separately takes you away from the book you are designing.

Layouts that do not print

Wrong trim size or missing bleed means a paperback that looks off.

Text and art in different tools

The words and pictures never quite line up.

Watch an Illustrated Book Come Together

See a style set, a book storyboarded and every page illustrated consistently.

From Idea to Illustrated Book

Style, storyboard, pages and print, all in one flow.

1.Write

Set the style and the world

Choose an art style from the swatch, add reference images for each character, place and object, and storyboard the book page by page.

  • Pick an art style from a style swatch
  • Reference images for every character, place and object
  • A page-by-page storyboard you edit before illustrating
  • Text for every page written in your voice
  • Picture books, coloring books, workbooks and illustrated non-fiction

2.Edit

Refine every page

Edit any page's text, re-render an illustration with new directions, and adjust the layout until the book flows.

  • Edit the text on any page, placed over the art or beside it
  • Re-render an illustration from a new prompt
  • Crop, resize and reposition the art and the text
  • Font controls for every text layer
  • Undo, redo and autosave on every page

3.Format

Format for print

Choose one of nine trim sizes, add bleed for full-page art, and export a print-ready PDF for the paperback and a standard PDF to share.

  • Nine trim sizes for print
  • Optional 0.125 in bleed for full-page art
  • Print-ready PDF, one trim page per sheet, for the paperback
  • A standard PDF of two-page spreads to share
  • A cover at the KDP ratio, generated or uploaded

4.Distribute

Publish and share

Publish on KDP with the KDP extension filling the Details, Content and Pricing pages for your review, or share the book as an illustrated lead magnet on your Author Page.

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Distribute on NanoReads

Our reader website + iOS/Android apps

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registered readers
on NanoReads

Readers who browse your genre on NanoReads can find your book there.

Written by Real Authors with AIWriteBook

Browse books created by authors just like you

Built for Illustrated Books

One flow for every kind of illustrated book.

A style swatch

Pick the art style once and every illustration follows it.

Reference images per world element

Characters, places and objects each keep their own look across the book.

Storyboard first

Plan every page with its text and picture before illustrating.

Picture, coloring and workbook formats

Soft storybook art, clean line art for coloring, or diagrams and exercises for workbooks.

Nine trim sizes with bleed

A print PDF sized for your format, with optional 0.125 in bleed.

Text in your voice

Write each page yourself or edit the AI's proposal until it reads like you.

Try it on your own book

Plan, write and edit your first chapter free.

No credit card needed

Real Creators. Real Illustrated Books.

These authors used the same flow: define characters and an art style, storyboard the pages, illustrate, then publish. Picture books, a coloring book and illustrated non-fiction, live on the web now.

Will You Be My Friend?

A gentle picture book where the same soft, storybook-style fox carries the same look from page one to the last spread.

Captain Giggles and the Lost Rainbow

A picture book whose bright, rainbow-chasing hero keeps one look from the cover to the last page.

Cozy Reaper

An adult coloring book where the same Grim Reaper character shows up in cozy scene after cozy scene, in clean, consistent line art.

Growing Older Needs to Come With a Book!

An illustrated nonfiction reflection on aging, proving the same locked-style flow works well beyond picture books.

These are live Author Pages and Book Pages built by real AIWriteBook authors, opened in a new tab, not staged screenshots.

Making an Illustrated Book Before and After AIWriteBook

What changes when style and references are set once.

Without AIWriteBook

  • Characters that look different on every page
  • Mixed art styles
  • Generating images one prompt at a time
  • Print files with the wrong size or no bleed
  • Text and pictures made in separate tools

With AIWriteBook

  • Reference images for every character and place
  • One style swatch for the whole book
  • A storyboard that drives every page
  • Nine trim sizes with optional bleed
  • Text and art planned together, page by page

Already have a draft?

Import your Word file and keep writing in your own voice.

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What writers say about AIWriteBook

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Questions About Illustrated Books

How the visual book flow works.

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Make an Illustrated Book That Looks Like One Book

A consistent style on every page, text in your voice and print-ready files. Start free.

  • No credit card required
  • Consistent style on every page
  • You keep 100% ownership