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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Schools Visits
Friday, October 4, 2013
Prison Gang Rape and Beheading Story
Please click here for more stories about Xena and the prisoners featured at Jon's Jail Journal
Saturday night, I'm answering questions live on Twitter here.
My Banged-Up Abroad episode was based on my books, Hard Time and Party Time
Here's my full talk to schools about the jail conditions:
Shaun Attwood
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
Hunt at High Tide
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Greetings from the Abyss by Jack (Part 12)
Jack is serving life without parole, and has terminal cancer. Throughout my incarceration, Jack was a positive influence. He encouraged me to keep writing, to enter short-story competitions, and we proofread each other’s chapters. Jack is seeking pen pals, so anyone interested please email me at attwood.shaun@hotmail.co.uk for his details.
Hello, my friend. How are you today? Well, I hope. Thank you for the sympathy card and your condolences concerning my brother Eddy. It has been difficult but I am coping with my issues.
Claire was telling me that Yasmin seems to be doing well, that her hair is growing back, and her energy is returning so that she can do those things that most children do, drive those around them crazy. Good. I’m glad to hear it. I hope she runs you ragged.
I understand that the premiere of Locked-Up Abroad and the Party Time book launch went well. Just don’t let all of that fame and acclaim go to your head. If it gets to be too much, grab your sleeping bag, go into the bathroom and shut the door. Spending a couple of days sleeping by the toilet should bring you back to reality.
Well, the only other thing going on here was my day trip to St. Luke’s hospital last week for an MRI and CT scan. I’m not sure why it was necessary to do both, but it made for a long day without food. I don’t have the results but I should be going to the oncologist soon, so maybe I’ll find out then what’s going on.
Take care of yourself, Shaun. I hope you are well and you have my continued wish for good fortune. Tell all I said Hi!
Always,
Jack
Ps) Slingblade says Hi and he was asking about you last week.
Shaun Attwood
Third Review of Party Time
By Polly Courtney, the author of Feral Youth
I cannot believe this is a true story! It is unputdownable - made for a novel or (dare I say) movie.
Shaun Attwood's style is punchy and fresh, making me laugh/snort/reel/gasp as I followed the antics of English Shaun, Acid Joey, Skinner, Wild Man and other crazed, fearless ravers into places I never even knew existed.
There is no 'glossing over' of events in this book. We get to experience the trippy highs, the skanky, shaky, paranoid lows, the knife-attacks by the beautiful, crazy first wife, the cattle-prod torture of rival criminals and the heart-stopping moments at border control when ten thousand pills are driven through inside fake Coke cans. The story rattles through a period of about 10 years, told in vivid scenes with little explanation required between them.
I'm not a raver, have never touched a pill, smoked crack or glugged GHB in my life, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a great story with some unbelievably brilliant characters and some good moral lessons, although whether English Shaun has heeded them remains to be seen.
Off to download Hard Time, so I can find out...
Click here for Party Time’s webpage, including chapter 1: http://shaunattwood.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120&Itemid=119
Click here for Party Time on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Party-Time-Shaun-Attwood/211408465606796?ref=hl
Click here for the second review of Party Time: http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/second-review-of-my-new-book-party-time.html
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