A practical and often entertaining publishing manual.
Twin entrepreneurs share their secrets of publishing success on Amazon and Audible in this business book.
Siblings Rasmus and Christian Mikkelsen, credited as “the Mikkelsen Twins,” offer a book about passive income, which they appealingly describe as “income that requires no effort to earn and maintain.” Their passive-income method involves self-publishing books on Amazon and audiobooks on Audible. This book, based on video training sessions available on their website, is divided into six modules: “Foundations,” which includes the twins’ story and offers a primer on the aforementioned platforms and the basics of the authors’ message; “Choose,” detailing how to choose topics for nonfiction books; “Outsource,” explaining how to publish books using a ghostwriter and find a designer to create a book cover; “Launch,” featuring tips on how to launch a book on online platforms; “Multiply,” showing their methods for how to continue making money off a book after its initial launch; and “Discoveries,” summing up the lessons the brothers learned along the way. Each module includes short chapters and, except in “Discoveries,” a handy roundup of tips at the end. The work also includes plenty of success stories—both the twins’ and their followers’—as well as accounts of a few failures, lending a bit of relatability, which is a key element to this book’s success. The twins write in an inviting, informal style, relating their journeys from two jobless young men to victorious entrepreneurs. Christian found success with his first self-published book, How To Be a 4.0 Student in College, Like Me(2018), and Rasmus with his own series of fitness books; both say that they came to realize that audiobooks would be an even more reliable income stream. They effectively teach what they practiced in these pages, imparting a range of practical steps along the way. Their excitement is contagious, and they make their end goal seem attainable—an appealing one-two punch that not all moneymaking guides land.
A practical and often entertaining publishing manual.Pub Date: July 1, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-73714-243-0
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Publishing Life
Review Posted Online: Oct. 21, 2022
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
A juicy story with some truly crazy moments, yet Anderson's good heart shines through.
The iconic model tells the story of her eventful life.
According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, since the well-told anecdotes and memorable character sketches are what make it a page-turner. The poetry (more accurately described as italicized notes-to-self with line breaks) remains strewn liberally through the pages, often summarizing the takeaway or the emotional impact of the events described: "I was / and still am / an exceptionally / easy target. / And, / I'm proud of that." This way of expressing herself is part of who she is, formed partly by her passion for Anaïs Nin and other writers; she is a serious maven of literature and the arts. The narrative gets off to a good start with Anderson’s nostalgic memories of her childhood in coastal Vancouver, raised by very young, very wild, and not very competent parents. Here and throughout the book, the author displays a remarkable lack of anger. She has faced abuse and mistreatment of many kinds over the decades, but she touches on the most appalling passages lightly—though not so lightly you don't feel the torment of the media attention on the events leading up to her divorce from Tommy Lee. Her trip to the pages of Playboy, which involved an escape from a violent fiance and sneaking across the border, is one of many jaw-dropping stories. In one interesting passage, Julian Assange's mother counsels Anderson to desexualize her image in order to be taken more seriously as an activist. She decided that “it was too late to turn back now”—that sexy is an inalienable part of who she is. Throughout her account of this kooky, messed-up, enviable, and often thrilling life, her humility (her sons "are true miracles, considering the gene pool") never fails her.
A juicy story with some truly crazy moments, yet Anderson's good heart shines through.Pub Date: Jan. 31, 2023
ISBN: 9780063226562
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Dey Street/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: Dec. 5, 2022
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2023
SEEN & HEARD
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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