It's not OK to hit a porn star stupid

This is fucking disgusting:

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/how-internet-responds-porn-star-abuse/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=main

This is disgusting for two reasons, firstly the hitting and beating people is never OK; especially if that person is your partner. Violence is wrong; period.

The fact that it happened against a porn actress is irrelevant which brings me succinctly onto the second reasons this is so fucking disgusting; the reactions of the people who’ve commented on this on Twitter: it’s wrong ‘even though’ she’s a porn actress – WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN ‘EVEN THOUGH’ NOOOOOOOOOOOO; I MEAN FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, punching people is wrong, beating people is wrong; the profession of the victim has nothing and I mean nothing to do with how unacceptable it is, I cannot emphasise exactly how ‘GRRRRRRRRRR’ I feel on this matter.

Porn stars need loving personal relationships too: what they do must be emotionally exhausting, so they need a special someone to be there for them just as much (and probably more so) than the rest of us. The fact that they have sex on camera doesn't mean that they will be unfaithful to their romantic partners.  If you think being porn star makes someone scum: YOU SHOULDN'T WATCH PORN; you also need to Google the word ‘hypocrisy’.

Sex work is work, sex workers deserve respect.
Stigma Kills (just like it almost did here).
Rant over. That is all.

Well I’ve done it again: I’ve published a book…

A killer returns:

Jacobs’s day took a sharp turn south when just before he was about to finish work a body turns up. Mere hours later he is horrified to find out that a murder case that was never solved has just come back to haunt him. With his relationship with his boyfriend under strain and a homicidal lunatic killing people left, right and centre all he can do is hope he and his partner Sally can catch him before many more people die. Set on Teesside, this fast paced novelette is exciting and has several fascinating plot twists leading to an exciting conclusion.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/killer-returns-A-J-McLeod-ebook/dp/B00GZ8EW0A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385741401&sr=8-1&keywords=%22A+killer+returns%22

Short story for creative writing

Just finished the first draft of the short story I have to write to pass the creative writing night-class; type it up and send it in: and then I’m done. I did a crime short story about a Medical Examiner getting called out to look at a crime scene.

Get that done and then back to the erotic fiction: I’m imposing deadlines on myself now – I’m going to have the first draft done by August and hopefully submit the final by September.

I’m still making notes for my other projects – Watch this space people.

Jack the Ripper event in Middlesbrough

I went to a Jack the Ripper event at Middlesbrough central library last night and I was very impressed. I wasn’t expecting quite so much forensic science because it was part of the literary festival but I’m certainly not complaining. I got a fair bit out of it for the novel I’m writing; especially about the Whitechapel area in London at the time. I have to be honest here: I wasn’t expecting the evidence against the guy from Hartlepool to be quite so solid as a new potential candidate to the JtR but it really was.

I have loads of stuff to be considering for good material for my novel, and I may even change who I’m scripting as victims based on some of the evidence that was presented – I found out some things which made the situation in Whitechapel seem even worse than it did before, and yes that is some feat considering it was Jack the Rippers stomping ground. With over 1 murder per day in an area of 30,000 throughout the 1880’s I should have a great time describing how a Jack the Ripper copycat managed to pass of his own victims as Jack’s.

My Novel

OK then: just got given a few new books for my birthday which will help with the next one (the supernatural horror, I know it’s hard to keep up but I tend to have a lot of projects on-the-go at once; it makes life interesting) The novel I’m writing is a post-Jack the Ripper story, focusing on the murders which followed Jack the Ripper in London. JtR has been done to death (no pun intended) so I decided to focus on some of the later Whitechapel murders.

On a funny note I had a chat in the staff canteen of the hospital I volunteer at when I went in for a job interview a few weeks ago with one of my colleagues about my novel. The JtR murders had a certain level of surgical skill and the ones that followed were plain savage, yet at the time some people considered them to be “Ripping’s” at the time – I made the remark that if this was accurate then ‘Jack the Ripper killed some people: and then he went mental’: totally forgetting that in conversation context matters and I was talking about what was done to the body rather than his state of mind. Oops.