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And, when you use keywords related to your topic, people searching Amazon or Google will see your book high in the search results. Keywords also come into play when you pick your book title. Most people write very short descriptions on Amazon, but you have plenty of space to write a very long thourough description that can really sell people on the benefits of your book and why they shouod buy it.
Reviews are also vital in selling your book. People want to see what previous readers thought before committing to buying. So, as a new author, where do you get reviews?
Send the book to people in the industry or experts in the topic covered in the book, co-workers, friends, and family… then ask them to submit an honest review.
The key here is to be diligent in your follow up with getting reviews. Most people are extremely busy and even writing a short book review is something they are not likely to do without a little nudging. You should also put out in the word out on your social media like Facebook and Twitter. Put up a website. Create an email list. Join forums related to the topic of your book and join the conversation… and casually mention your book.
Comment on blogs in the niche, with links back to your book website or Amazon page. Another option is to run ads though Amazon Advertising.
You can run ads every time someone does a keyword search on Amazon and also show ads for your books when visitors are looking at other books related to your book. This is one of the most cost effective ways of doing paid advertising for an inexpensive book and still make a profit doing it. This is a very powerful tool to get your book in front of the people who are most likely to buy it. The first step here: get your books online on the Kindle platform!
And get the word out through intensive marketing. Don't be shy about telling the world about your book. Those self-publishers who do make four figures per month — or more — have multiple books for sale. This gives you two important advantages. Many people click on those links to find out more about those related products, in this case books, and buy them too. Again, you could easily accomplish this by having two shorter books rather than one longer book on Amazon.
Aim for having a goal of having at least two books on Amazon for best results. It's a lot easier to get someone who bought one of your books to buy a second and third book than to get a new buyer. The first step here, of course, is to actually write the text of your book. A few tips here:.
Once you have a topic create an outline, do your research… then start writing. It can be tough to think about writing a whole book. Write a bit each day and before you know it your book will be done. Although you should read it over before proceeding. And if you write a blog or a journal, you could collect those writings into a book, if appropriate.
Based on what they say you might edit or tweak your book. Somehow I assumed this movie was about an inventor. Probably because of "electrical" in the title. It is not. Based on the real life of Louis Wain, the film follows Wain Benedict Cumberbatch an eccentric artist at the turn of the century who specialized in drawing brightly colored cats. If the film is to be believed, Wain almost singlehandedly turned cats into the rival of dogs for most popular house pet.
Prior to him, they were considered mangey strays. But after he adopted cats with his wife Claire Foy and then spent his entire life drawing them, they took the world by storm with everyone nabbing a cat after falling in love with his illustrations. If you're a dog person, you now know who to send your hate mail to. If you're a musical and you can get me listening to your song on repeat for a week, then you've got my support.
The film, based on the smash hit, Olivier Award—nominated West End musical, follows a teenage boy named Jamie newcomer Max Harwood who dreams of becoming a drag queen. The songs are certified bops, and the glitzy choreography is a joy to watch. The supporting cast — including the never-bad Richard E. Grant as his drag mentor, Sarah Lancashire as the supportive mother every queer kid wishes they had, and Lauren Patel as Jamie's peppy best friend — also bolsters the film.
Based on the Roald Dahl novel, the Oscar-nominated family film and ingenious and obviously sly fox with a penchant for stealing. Anderson's particular, pastel-infused, symmetrical shots are right at home in this world where every set, backdrop, and prop is hand-crafted for his vision. And while some Anderson films veer a little too far off into the weeds in the name of aesthetics, this one is highly approachable.
In this film, directed by Lulu Wang and based on her life, the Wang family receive news that the matriarch, Nai Nai, has terminal lung cancer. Instead of sharing that news, they decide to stage a wedding as an excuse to bring the whole family to China to see their grandmother one final time. Billi Awkwafina tags along but is extremely uneasy about lying to her grandmother so excessively.
The cult classic David Fincher film, based on a Chuck Palahniuk novel, is a must-watch, if only to know all of the references people constantly make to this film. The rules. The soap. Brad Pitt's sweaty abs. This trippy film about a straitlaced man's crisis and descent into insomniac madness has become a favorite among those dissatisfied by consumerism, complacency, and the corporate machine.
The film is also filled with endless Easter eggs and hidden references so that even those who have seen it a dozen times will still pick up on something new. And like I said, Brad Pitt's sweaty abs. We saw in The Godfather that the mob and the film industry do not always go hand in hand.
Occasionally, when the two worlds touch, you end up with a horse head in your bed. In Get Shorty , however, the merger of cinema and "construction" leads to a more pleasant effect. John Travolta's Chili heads from Miami to LA to settle a debt with a B-movie director Gene Hackman and somehow manages to find himself as the newest member of a production team.
The gangster comedy sends its lead down an increasingly absurd and humorous path as he's tasked with casting an aging scream queen Rene Russo and her Oscar-winning ex Danny DeVito in the new film. The whole film is like one of Donkey Kong's mine cars, bouncing down a path of messy, chaotic fun — but we're enjoying every single minute of it.
The unlikely pair team up to investigate the missing person case of a girl who disappeared 40 years earlier. If you've ever heard the phrase "Mrs. Robinson" used for an older woman seducing a younger man, this is where the term came from. Anne Bancroft played the OG Mrs.
Robinson in an Oscar-nominated performance, I might add in this '60s romantic dramedy. A very young Dustin Hoffman is the titular graduate, done with college and adrift in the world, unsure what to do with his life.
Then he meets Mrs. The film, directed by the legendary Oscar-winning Mike Nichols, scooped up seven Oscar nominations on its way to becoming a cultural touchstone and launching Hoffman's career. What a delightfully bonkers premise for a movie. I would like to begin this section with a direct appeal to Spotify: Dear Spotify executives, please put the entire Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack on your site. Why do we get only three songs?
Thank you. If, however, you would like to hear the entire soundtrack from this Coen Brothers folk musical, you can watch it on Amazon Prime. Oscar Isaac plays the titular struggling folk singer as he tries to make sense of his life, and sings haunting melodies in the process. This underappreciated, lyrical film should have been showered with more awards and praise than it was.
Sometimes the people just get it wrong. I will not be reading the comments for this article, because I KNOW you all are going to rake me over the coals for this one, but this is actually an incredible film. Did it win every single Razzie the year it came out? But those folks are not watching this film from the perspective that it's a masterpiece of camp. Send this film to the Met Gala! Adam Sandler whose recent Hubie Halloween is also a winner plays both Jack and Jill, fraternal twins, in this truly bonkers affair.
Oh, and the Survivors loved it. Okay I feel guilty already. This is the most recent adaptation of the oft-adapted novel about a young governess who falls in love with her employer only to realize he has something much more problematic going on in his attic.
The sprawling landscapes, marvelous acting, and Oscar-nominated costumes make the whole experience lush and literary. When Jennifer's Body came out over a decade ago, is was panned by mostly male critics and marketed largely as the latest film in which to ogle Megan Fox straight off her stint in the Transformers franchise.
However, in a post— MeToo world, and especially after this summer, as society relitigates the way Fox was treated during her rise , this horror comedy has become a feminist cult classic.
The film was written by female screenwriter and Oscar winner Diablo Cody, directed by female director Karyn Kusama, stars women, and yet is miraculously not either a romance or about motherhood try finding films from before that fit those qualifications.
It's also about a female succubus who can survive only by killing and eating men an urge that seems oddly relatable sometimes. Let's get the team on the phone because this is set up nicely for a sequel, and we'd like to see it.
The holidays are just around the corner, and Amazon is here with what I feel like is an under-appreciated Christmas film that should be more firmly placed in the canon. Everyone's favorite body builder-turned actor-turned governor-turned actor-turned replacement host of The Apprentice Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Howard, a workaholic father trying to prove to his son The Phantom Menace 's Jake Lloyd that he loves him by buying him a Turbo-Man aka the most sought-after toy of the year.
What follows is a mad dash around town trying to get the action figure by any means necessary. Oh and Sinbad is there as competition. If you want a holiday film you haven't seen times, might I recommend this one.
Also covid survivor Rita Wilson is here doing great work. I'd rather have my bottom impaled on a giant cactus than pass up an opportunity to recommend this Rowan Atkinson masterpiece.
The British cult classic which is gone on to spawn two sequels features Atkinson as a cross between James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. He's incompetent in nearly every way but when the entirety of MI7 is killed, he's the only agent left to stop a coupe on the British throne by John Malkovich's jumped-up Frenchman, Pascal Sauvage. I nearly die laughing every time I watch the caper including the scene where English tries to unmask the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Atkinson is a master of asides and ad-libs, and they do not disappoint here. The film also includes live footage of me performing a lip sync for my life every night while getting ready for bed.
I'd like to start the coverage of this film by saying that Josh Hutcherson's character is named "Laser," which is the kind of chaotic naming of fictional characters you've got to get behind. But that is neither here nor there. This Best Picture—nominated family drama about a pair of lesbians raising two teenagers is exquisite and a massive push for representation, since same-sex couples with kids are still rarely seen in the media.
The film focuses on the family once Laser brings his sperm donor played by Mark Ruffalo into the lives of his mothers played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in award-winning turns. Small and intimate in some ways and yet bombastic in the stories it is trying to tell and the force of the performances, The Kids Are All Right is a necessary watch.
I know that listing actors is boring, but just go with me here. Like, really. As a result, streets previously occupied by Black families are now almost entirely white. Thus is the story of Jimmie Fails, who wrote this film based partly on his life. Hauntingly poignant and tragically melancholy, the film, an indictment of gentrification, also engages with the pains of growing up, of change, and of having to say goodbye.
With the recent wide release of The French Dispatch , perhaps now is a good time to revisit some of Wes Anderson's older titles, including this maritime comedy starring Bill Murray.
Murray plays Zissou, a Jacques Cousteau—like figure intent on getting revenge on the jaguar shark for killing his former partner. In classic Wes Anderson fashion, the film is beautifully shot in brightly colored, immaculately constructed, symmetrical frames. Beware, however — watching Steve Zissou could give you the urge to buy a red beanie. Fueled by alcohol and cut off from society, the pair descend into a salty, windswept madness.
This is certainly not for everyone, but those of you with a strong constitution and love of psychological horror will find this a riveting exploration of the untethered mind. In the world of melancholy, indie family dramedies, there is only one Little Miss Sunshine and everyone else is simply playing for second. The film about a family of struggling misfits driving in a decrepit yellow van to attend a children's beauty pageant is one of a kind in its achievements.
It's a feel good movie that's not cloying. It's a movie about depressed people that isn't depressing. The cast of all-stars including Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Toni Collette, and Alan Arkin are not only giving great performances, but they are in roles that highlight their individual strengths to bolster the film.
Colette in particular is flawless as the supportive mother and gets to deliver the greatest popsicle eating performance ever recorded on screen. Manchester by the Sea is a beautiful, if disastrously depressing film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. His performance is so strong that it nabbed him a rare young male Oscar nomination and launched him into lead roles in subsequent films like Ben Is Back and Boy Erased.
He would also go on to become an A24 darling in films like Lady Bird and Waves. I think it's easy in post-run for president, post-arrival in Washington as Secretary of Transportation, and post- shirtless thirst trap to forget what a trailblazer Pete Buttigieg is. This documentary, while rehashing many of the campaign facts that you already know, does a nice job to remind viewers of how powerful it was for many people especially not those in liberal urban enclaves to see a married gay man running for president.
You may not like Mayor Pete but you can't help but acknowledge what he was able to accomplish. Watch it on Amazon Prime starting November Where do I even begin to describe my love for this horror film? Directed by Ari Aster whose Hereditary is somehow even better , Midsommar follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a folk festival. Only, instead of a normal village, there's something menacing and mysterious at play. Aster does the seemingly impossible job of making a field in broad daylight scarier than the dark, and the dread he creates in these scenes is palpable.
Although I will never forgive it for teaching me what a blood eagle is. It took Baz Luhrmann nearly three years to secure all the rights to this jukebox musical, but he had a vision and the finished product was well worth the time. We've seen plenty of filmed musicals, and even a few jukebox musicals, but never an original one based on music from so many different artists.
Elton John. The one-of-a-kind film immediately struck a chord with critics and audiences landing eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture.
And we're still listening to "Lady Marmalade" to this day because of it. She's the "hip old granny who can hip-hop, bebop, dance till ya drop, and yo, yo, make a wicked cup of cocoa.
They ran that way. It was a run-by fruiting!
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