Hello, dear Captain, would you consider “opening” an Awkward Zazzle.com store? How about an Amazon store?*

Those of us who have more love and artistic talent than money could pay some karma forward and contribute graphics and artworks. You and the Awkward Army can pick from greeting cards, keychains, scarves, mugs, clothes, lampshades (what) to let their Missing Stair/Evil Bees memes fly. Only set up a page/account, and you dont have to manage stock, ordering or returns.

I am a fan of The Bloggess, who has a Zazzle.com store and named it, “Five Pounds of Uncut Cocaine” which apparently shows on the buyer’s credit card. Anyway, she is having a real giggle with this thing. I’d seen Zazzle advertised and assumed it was low-quality digital printing, but heck Disney and Marvel use them now too. Zazzle is strict on copyright so likely no version of “Darth Boyfriend” would get past them… – Another idea I’ve had for you is to start an Amazon Bookshelf store. Army peeps following the link from the Awkward page would net you a commission. We could have our hymnal, “Why Does He Do That?” along with “The Gift of Fear” (there’s one for teens!) among others. Pretty sure both of these ship internationally, too.

The longer your reach becomes, Cap’n, the more recovery people around me have the potential to access; hence, the better my life gets. Ultimately, this request is me being selfish. xo.

*I don’t work for either of these, and assume you’d do your own research.