A studio service
A book production line your agency can resell.
Your clients ask for children's books; hiring illustrators and learning KDP is a margin-killer. We run a watercolor picture-book pipeline whose output is already live and approved on Amazon — our own titles, not mockups. You sell the book, we produce it end to end, your brand goes on the deliverable.
N° 01Why picture books
Watercolor picture books sell on Amazon.
The children's picture book category on Amazon rewards exactly one thing at browse time: a cover and interior that look like a real book. Watercolor is the visual language parents already trust — it reads as classic, gift-worthy, and worth the price of a print edition.
For an agency, that's a productizable offer. A picture book is a fixed-shape deliverable with a clear finish line — live listing, approved by KDP — which means you can quote it, schedule it, and resell it at a margin without carrying illustration staff.
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A category with shelf life
Picture books back-list: a title published this year keeps selling next year. That makes each client book a recurring-revenue asset your agency helped create — strong retention glue.
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Watercolor converts browsers
At Amazon-thumbnail size, watercolor covers read instantly as 'real book'. That first impression is most of the purchase decision in this category.
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Fixed scope, quotable price
A picture book has a known page count, a known format, and a known finish line. You can put a number on it for your client and keep the difference.
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Print and ebook from one build
The same production files carry the Kindle edition and the KDP print edition, so one engagement gives your client two products on the listing.
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No illustrator payroll
Your agency sells illustrated books without hiring, art-directing, or managing illustrators. The pipeline is ours; the client relationship is yours.
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Repeatable across clients
Once your first client book ships, the second is the same shape. Book production becomes a line item on your rate card, not a one-off scramble.
N° 02The style range
Nine watercolor styles, one comparable scene.
Every book starts with a style decision, so we made it easy to sell: nine distinct watercolor illustration styles, each demonstrated on the same bedtime scene so your client compares the style, not the subject. Send them the style gallery under your own brand and let them pick.
From classic line-and-wash to dreamy wet-on-wet, opaque gouache to a vintage 1950s storybook look — the range covers the whole picture-book market, and every style is production-proven, not a concept board.
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Line & wash
Fine ink outlines with loose transparent washes — the most classic picture-book look, and the safest default for character-driven stories.
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Dreamy wet-on-wet
Soft bleeds and melting edges with no hard lines. The natural choice for bedtime and lullaby titles, the strongest-selling picture-book niche.
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Opaque gouache
Flat, matte, poster-bold shapes with a mid-century feel. Covers in this style stay legible even at search-result thumbnail size.
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Cel-shaded watercolor
Clean silhouettes over real paper texture — the most consistent style across a long book, ideal for series characters your client wants to extend.
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Vintage 1950s storybook
Dusty palette, off-register charm, aged cream paper. Instant nostalgia for heritage stories and grandparent-gift titles.
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Four more, one gallery
High-key pastel, granulating texture, botanical plate, and watercolor-and-pencil round out the range — all nine compared side by side on the style pages.
N° 03The pipeline
Manuscript in, live listing out.
The pipeline runs the full distance: your client's manuscript goes in one end, and a KDP-approved, live Amazon listing comes out the other. Every stage is ours to run and yours to present.
This isn't a theory — it's the same pipeline behind our own published titles. Nell and the Sunflower Nine, Pip and the Quiet House, Goodnight Everything, Zara and the Heavy Secret, Who's Still Awake on the Farm?, and The Worry That Wouldn't Go to Bed are the studio's own books — written, illustrated, and published by us, live on Amazon under our own ASINs. We say that plainly because it's the point: we're not showing you client work we assisted on, we're showing you a production line we run for ourselves and are opening to agencies.
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1 · Manuscript & story edit
We shape the client's text for the picture-book format — page turns, pacing, read-aloud rhythm — or work from a finished manuscript as-is.
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2 · Art direction
Style selection from the nine-style range, character sheets, and a spread-by-spread visual plan approved before any pages are painted.
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3 · Illustration
Full watercolor-illustrated spreads produced in the chosen style, consistent from cover to final page — studio-crafted and art-directed throughout.
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4 · Layout & typesetting
Text set into the spreads with picture-book typography that survives print: safe margins, gutter awareness, and read-aloud-friendly sizing.
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5 · KDP formatting
Files built to Amazon's specs for both Kindle and print — trim, bleed, cover spine math, and the metadata fields that trip up first-time publishers.
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6 · Live, approved listing
We carry the book through KDP review to a live listing in the client's own account. The finish line is a URL, not a file handoff.
Investment
Named engagements. Wholesale rates.
Three engagement shapes, from a single pilot title to a standing series programme. Each is quoted per engagement, wholesale to your agency — volume pricing on request.
Pilot book
On requestper title
One client book, start to live listing — the proving run for your agency.
- Full pipeline, manuscript to live listing
- Style selection from all nine styles
- Unbranded, client-ready deliverables
- Two revision rounds per stage
- NDA on request
Agency line
On requestper title, volume rates
A standing production slot for agencies shipping books regularly.
- Everything in Pilot book
- Reserved monthly production capacity
- Volume pricing per title
- Priority scheduling
- Style gallery you can present as your own
- Single point of contact
Series programme
On requestmulti-title
Multi-book series for a single client — one character, many titles.
- Everything in Agency line
- Character & style bible for the series
- On-model consistency across titles
- Sequenced release planning
- Deepest volume rates
This is a bespoke production line, so pricing is quoted per engagement — page count, style, and volume drive the number. Volume pricing on request; the more titles you send, the better the per-title rate.
Questions
The answers we give most often.
- How long does one book take?
- A typical 24–32 page picture book runs six to ten weeks from approved manuscript to live listing, depending on style and revision rounds. Agencies with a reserved production slot get priority scheduling and firmer dates.
- How do revisions work?
- Each stage — art direction, illustration, layout — closes with an approval gate and includes revision rounds before the next stage begins. That keeps changes cheap: reworking a character sheet costs days, reworking finished spreads costs weeks, so we front-load the approvals.
- Do we get the source files?
- Yes. Deliverables include the print-ready and Kindle files plus layered working files, all unbranded. Your agency can present them as its own production output.
- Who owns the rights to the finished book?
- Your client does. Full rights to the finished book — text, illustrations, and files — transfer on final payment. We claim no ongoing license, no royalty, and no credit unless the client wants one.
- Are the books on your site really yours?
- Yes — and that's deliberate. The published titles we show are the studio's own books, written and illustrated by us and live on Amazon under our own ASINs. They're not client commissions dressed up as a portfolio; they're proof the pipeline reaches a live, approved listing.
- Can our client's book be in any of the nine styles?
- Any of them. The style gallery exists so your client can choose from the same scene painted nine ways. If a story sits between styles, we'll recommend one at art direction and show a sample spread before committing the book.
Next step
Put a book production line on your rate card.
Tell us about your agency and the first client book you have in mind — we'll reply within two business days with a per-title quote and a timeline to a live listing.