Open Source·Zero Budget·Zero Excuses

“Tell the truth.
Tell it in your voice.
Tell it to the right person.”

The open-source playbook for getting your book found.

A dump truck dispatcher. A phone. An AI. A Raspberry Pi 5. $0 marketing budget.
This is what happened.

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$0
Marketing Budget
10
Platforms
2 wks
Launch Window
100%
Honest

What's Inside

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Five modules. Copy-paste ready. Open on your phone. Built for people who have five minutes between real tasks.

01 — Templates
Campaign Templates
Copy-paste social posts for 10 platforms. Written in the voice of the book. Open on your phone. Done in thirty seconds.
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02 — Schedule
Posting Schedule
Two-week launch calendar plus evergreen rotation. Five minutes a day. One daily checklist you can run from anywhere.
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03 — Guides
Platform Guides
What works on Facebook won't work on Reddit. What works on Reddit gets you muted on Discord. Each platform gets its own rules.
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04 — AI Angle
The AI Conversation
How to talk about AI-assisted work without apologizing for it. Framework, language, and reply templates for every version of "but did AI write it?"
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05 — Truth
The Case Study
Real timeline. Real numbers. Real mistakes. Updated as they come in. No vanity metrics. No "we're thrilled to announce." Just the truth.
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The Story

How it got made.

A man who drives trucks for a living recorded voice memos on his commute. An AI shaped them into noir prose. A Raspberry Pi 5 in a closet ran the whole stack.
— From the README

The result was a book — 22 noir vignettes about ego, identity, and the people you drive past every day. Then came the hard part: getting anyone to read it.

This repo is what came out of that process. Every template was actually used. Every tactic was tested from a phone between dispatch calls. Every result is documented honestly — including what didn't work.

case_study.sh
$ Author Shane Brazelton
$ Co-author Claude (Anthropic)
$ Hardware Raspberry Pi 5, 16GB
$ Location Hazel Green, Alabama
$ Budget $0
$ Time/day 5-10 minutes
$ Platform Amazon KDP
$ License MIT
$ Status LIVE

The Book

You Probably Think This Book Is About You
22 Noir Vignettes
Shane Brazelton
Now on Amazon KDP

You Probably Think
This Book Is About You

Twenty-two noir vignettes about ego, identity, and the people you drive past every day. Written by a dump truck dispatcher in Alabama, shaped into noir prose with an AI co-author on a Raspberry Pi 5 in a closet. Every story happened. The names changed.

This is the book the playbook was built to launch. Every template, every tactic, every mistake in this repo comes from marketing it. The case study is the honest record.

Noir Short Fiction 22 Vignettes AI-Assisted Raspberry Pi Alabama
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