This page is less of a blog today and more of an ad. Sorry regular followers!
Hollywood movie makers love ADAPTATIONS from Intellectual Property. That means if you wrote and published a book, article, comic and turned it into a screenplay, their ears perk up.
Especially if that book was Gone Girl or you're Nora Roberts or some other publishing heavy weight. I teach authors how to write screenplays so I figured I could go the other way and teach screenwriters how to publish!
I am both a bestselling author and a screenwriter. I adapt my books to screenplays and only once have I written the screenplay then turned it into a novel or novella (shorter novel). I find it hard to go that way because writing novels takes a long ass time and having discovered the process of screenwriting, I'm now spoiled to see a finished product quickly.
Publishing is a learned skill and if you aren't represented by a Literary Agent and have a publisher, you can self publish, or we like to call it Indie Publishing to sound more cool. That process is easy. Getting sales is the hard part.
I'm going to teach a class on March 26th 2022 to anyone who is interested in learning how to publish on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP, the ebook forum. You can essentially publish anything as long as you have a nice book cover and it isn't dark web stuff.
eg) If you wrote a short story based on your screenplay, you could publish that on Kindle and sell it for .99 which is as low as they go on that site. Again, sales are the hard part and in my experience, when promoting a script adapted from IP, they want to see sales' numbers. That's not to say you won't make big sales or the producer you talk to will need big sales numbers.
I write Christmas romance novellas (24K words to 40K words) to sell at Christmas mostly and offer them for .99. I happen to make most of my money with these lovely little stories. My full novels aren't as lucrative unless I put some bank in to advertise, which is a whole other class.
In this one hour class I'll show you on Zoom, through screen share how to:
-Set up a publishing account on Amazon - Kindle Direct Publishing
-I'll show you how to answer all publishing questions asked during the process like pricing, opting in to Select and Digital Rights Management, making the process as easy as possible.
-I'll touch on how to make a book cover or use KDP's easy cover creator
At the end of the hour, you'll know how to publish something.
-I'll give you handy links if you want to learn more or access cover creators to save yourself some time and effort.
FYI, Amazon has tutorials on all this but I'll be live to answer questions after the class.
If you DM me on Twitter @KimHornsby I'll send you the link. Because I'm getting a lot of action on this, don't worry about thanking me in the DM's. Feel free to retweet or tell friends. The more the merrier. I don't want to post the Zoom link publicly for obvious reasons.
This class is FREE but at the end I will mention my Seed & Spark Campaign for a short film I wrote that I'm producing/shooting in May.
We need FOLLOWERS and we need FUNDS so if it sounds exciting to be a film supporter/investor, jump into the CHAT FILM team. No pressure. Our campaign will just have gone LIVE and we'll need lots of buzz the first week to get that ball rolling.
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