Hi Frank This sounds like a great idea for a book. Looking forward to reading it. Please respond so I know my participation in the list is working. Cheers Una -----Original Message----- From: people_who_love_books-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:people_who_love_books-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of frank perry Sent: Monday, 15 July 2013 7:44 AM To: people_who_love_books@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: p_W_l_b My latest idea for writing a book. Nowhere to turn. by Frank Perry. Hi.. Any and all comments are definitely welcome. Ok so here is my latest idea for a book. Nowhere to turn. Like most people, Don Hunt thinks he lives in the lucky country Australia, until through no fault of his own, his flat goes up in smoke. Don looses his job in the car making industry. Don is a qualified social worker as well, but can't get a job. No matter where Don goes or who he goes too, Don can't find a job or a place to live. In desperation, Don commits a crime only to find the prison system overcrowded. Don ends up in one of the few mens hostels, mostly full of criminals and he is violently attacked. Don gets out of hospital and finds himself on the streets surviving on unemployment benefits. Don turns to drugs and then religion in his desperate search to find something to fill the emptiness inside him. After a chance encounter with the most famous name of the day, Don thinks he has found the help he has desperately been looking for, but the help comes to an end with a most shocking murder. Don climbs a bridge to end his life and there, Don meets his salvation, the love of his life. Once I got started with this idea, the whole story just came to me. It's nearly finished and I'm happy to post the whole story to the list. I hope people will freely share the story. The story is adult reading, all events are fictional as are all characters. There is very little swearing in the book, but the book contains scenes of a violent nature. The book also contains references to drugs, political themes and some religious themes. Get ready for the surprise in relation to Don's love of his life. I expect to have the book finished including correcting any grammar and spelling errors by July 31st. I will post it to the list on this date. No copyright infringement is intended towards any other authors. The book is completely free of charge, and if you are ambitious enough, you have my full permission to produce the book in any format you wish. All I ask is that if you do this, you do this completely free of charge for all parties. The book isn't very long, I expect somewhere between 100 and 200 pages for the final draft. There will be an acknowledgements page and a small dedication. I wish to encourage any of you, if you have a short story, a book you've written, don't worry too much about the money side of things, please share it here. Why did I write this story? Good question. I saw and heard something on television about 3 weeks ago. I don't remember which channel or what show. I do remember it was in Australia and it showed homeless people. Three days later, I awoke with the idea so I began writing. It's not my goal to become a famous published author. I love reading books and I like the idea of writing my own. I only had to do a little it of research into the whole homelessness situation in australia. Believe it or not, there are some really genuine homeless people in our country, even whole families who live in cars or shelter wherever they can find places to go. Some of them don't even get unemployment benefits because social services says they have no fixed addresses. It's really happening every single day and right under our noses. I am eternally glad there are genuine charities out there trying to help these people, and there are genuine people who need help and who don't take advantage of the help they are given. It's hard to believe that such people exist, but research suggests they really do. The media love telling us about how somebody took advantage of some system or ripped off the tax payers, but give no credit whatsoever to these truly forgotten people.. It was also staggering to find out some of these people have genuine disabilities, meaning the disability isn't related to illegal drug taking. -- Stay positive. **** Stay positive. Disclaimer. List administrators, owners and moderators assume no liability or responsibility or accountability for any persons who may receive a virus as a result of emailing this list nor for any parties who may choose to take personal information list members disclose and then use this personal information for any purposes including marketing or scamming purposes. 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