Book Marketing for the Inept
The internet is full of useful how-to guides on marketing your own self-published books. This isn’t one of them.
Instead, it seeks to answer the question of whether someone with no marketing skills, aptitude or existing resources – me, that is – can learn some basics and actually sell some books.
My intention is to keep a blog, showing what I’ve tried, the many mistakes I’ve made, and any resulting progress. I’ll share any useful resources I’ve found along the way.
It’s Learn-Along-With-Dopey, and it starts at Ground Zero.
Psst… wanna try my book?

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- My Amazon blurb: how’s this sound?This is the book blurb I wrote for Amazon. Feel free to tell me what I’m doing wrong.
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That’s it. It’s the end of page. Nothing more to see here, except the footer, and nobody’s interested in that.