The New Book wizard turns your idea into a book plan and starts the pages. It has four steps, shown as pills at the top: Book Type, Idea & Style, Pages & Create and Generate. The pills turn green as you finish each one.
Where to find it:
Click AiX Publisher, then the New Book tab. The panel is called Create A New Book.
Step 1, Book Type:
Click one of the four cards: Coloring Book, Activity Book, Journal / Planner or Story / Picture Book. The card sets the page size, the default page count and whether a character step is needed, then moves you to step 2. See The Four Book Types.
Step 2, Idea & Style:
- Book Title (optional - AI suggests one later): type your title, or leave it empty. An empty title is saved as Coloring Book, Activity Book, Journal Book or Story Book for now. For a story book the AI writer gives it a real title when it writes the story, and the listing kit suggests three titles later.
- Your Idea / Premise / Main Character: the most important field. For coloring and activity books describe the theme. For story books describe the character and what they look like. You cannot move on with this box empty.
- Age Range: Ages 2-4, Ages 4-8 (the default), Ages 8-12, Teens or Adults. In version 1.0.20 this choice is not saved with the book: the story writer writes for ages 4 to 8, and the listing kit suggests its own age range from your book.
- Art Style: Classic Cartoon, Cute Kawaii, Bold Simple or Storybook Watercolor. Locked for the whole book so every page matches. See Art Styles And The Style Lock.
- Lock a character for this book (recommended): only for coloring and activity books, and only when you have a Google or FLUX key saved. It is ticked by default. Without such a key you see a tip about adding a free Google AI key instead.
Click Next to go on, or Back to change the type.
Step 3, Pages & Create:
- Number Of Pages: fills in with the default for your type (30, 30, 120 or 24). The box takes 4 to 300.
- The trim note under it confirms the size, for example 8.5 x 11 inch (US Letter), and tells you bleed, margins and gutter are applied for you.
Click Create Book. The button says Creating... while the book is saved.
Step 4, Generate:
What happens next depends on the book:
- Story books, and coloring or activity books with Lock a character ticked, open the character approval panel first. See The Character Consistency Engine.
- Every other book goes straight to Generating Your Book. The plugin plans the pages, puts them in the background queue and shows a progress bar and a grid of page cards.
The line under the progress bar counts the pages, for example 18 of 31 pages done, 1 failed (reroll below), 12 in the queue... The count includes the cover.
A real example:
For Ocean Friends Coloring Book, Ella picks Coloring Book, types Friendly sea animals for little kids: turtles, whales, octopus and crabs playing under the sea, picks Bold Simple for her youngest readers, and keeps 30 pages. She unticks Lock a character because she wants a different animal on each page.
Tips:
- You can close the wizard once pages are queued. Come back any time with Continue on the My Books tab.
- Page plans for coloring and activity books are smarter with a text AI key, because AI writes a different scene for every page. See Text AI Keys: The Writer, Listing Kit And Rewrite.