It's Black Friday, The One Day of the Year You Are Legally Obligated to Buy All My Books!

Hey you beautiful people! 

It is Black Friday today and there are all sorts of crazy deals available in my store! 

They call it Black Friday because it's supposed to be that wonderful day when you make so much money that it puts you in the black for the entire year.

This has been another challenging year for the site and for me personally, professionally, financially, dentally and in pretty much every other way as well. I was hoping to publish The Fractured Mirror, my massive book about the last 100 years in American movies about the film industry at the end of the year so I'd have an exciting new book for the Christmas season but that is an absolutely massive undertaking that has taken me years to write and is 650 pages at the moment. I want to take my time and make sure that it's as exhaustive and amazing as possible. So it won't be published for a few months from now. I'd rather take my time and get it right than rush it for the sake of having a new book for the Christmas season. 

I was hoping that even if I did not have something new I'd still sell some books this Christmas season. 

That hasn't happened. This is supposed to be the best time of the year to sell books and I have literally sold one book in the store on my site in the last week. As is almost invariably the case, the question is not whether I will sell a lot of books, or a modest amount but rather whether I will succeed in selling even a single copy of any of the many versions of the eight books that I've written. Most days the answer is no. 

I could not be more proud of The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In, the incredible 120 page "Weird Al" Yankovic-themed coloring book Felipe Sobreiro and myself wrote, or bewildered that seemingly no one is interested in the option on my site where you can get 3 signed copies of The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In for twenty dollars, shipping and handling included and a free pack of colored pencils with every order. That's a great deal on a great book AND you can buy nifty gifts for three of your weird, geeky pals for just 20 bucks! It's also a great Secret Santa gift. 

Also please consider buying 516 page Sincere Movie Cash In edition of The Weird A-Coloring to Al. It's just 20 bucks and you get a free copy of the Weird A-Coloring to Al.

And the paperback version of the extended version of The Joy of Trash: it's great, the ideal form! I don't know why I've sold almost no paperback copies of The Joy of Trash, only PDFs and hardcovers. 

I would love it if you would consider buying Postal and You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me, books I published before I got into the self-publishing racket. 

You know what business is EXCEEDINGLY hard? Self-publishing. It's like regular publishing but much, much more difficult and also kind of self-crushing, even when you put out great, professional books like I have been doing for the last three years. In conclusion, please buy my books. It would mean a lot to me and they're all great! 

You can find everything you need for the holiday season over at https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop