Hello. I want to make a film about my book.I am looking for agents, publishers, sellers, buyers and reviews for my book. I have released my 2014 paperback horror novel on Amazon called, “Francis Thompson and the Ripper Paradox.” It’s about an actual homeless poet who turns out to be the devil.
This novel is the first that introduces the English Catholic poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907) as a ripper suspect. Written by an expert on Thompson and the Ripper case, the novel draws on copious factual material gathered from around the world research to explain how his rise began as the perpetrator of the cluster of 5 terrible murders of 1888 in London’s East End. This novel tells that Thompson sought to raise the dead and then stay alive after his own passing by hiding behind history and in our minds. The book is based on non-fiction works, including old press reports, police documents, letters, biographies, uncut-volumes, and historical artefacts and documents. It has been resourced from personal access to mostly archival material from places like London’s Guildhall Library, London’s National Gallery, The British Library, The Kew National Archives, (Dear Boss Letter) the New York Public Library, The Victorian State Library, Boston College’s Burns Library’s (Thompson’s private notebooks for years, including 1888, and other unpublished documents) I’ve examined the murder sites and have lectured on these murders including as a delegate at the 2005 International Jack the Ripper conference held in Brighton.
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Website:
https://www.richard-a-patterson.com/
Facebook group. “Francis Thompson and the Ripper Paradox Book Group,” with previews of the novel & illustrations:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/502480266521400/
The paperback that sells for $16.66:
https://www.createspace.com/5089196
The ebook that sells for $0.99:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Francis-Thompson-Paradox-Richard-Patterson-ebook/dp/B00P0GQMU6
Blog:
https://richardapatterson17.blogspot.com.au/
Briefly about me:
I have held a range of occupations, including a secondary teacher of English, having worked teaching high school, Drama & Dance, Music, Physics, Information Technology & Business Communications. I also worked for a time for a major bank, and was a marketing assistant for a printing firm and co-managed an inner city gaming venue. I was an active Australian Army reservist, and member of a local theatre company. He gained My Batchelor of Arts Degree from the University of La Trobe Melbourne Campus, where I majored in Philosophy and minored in History and 19th Century Literature. I left with an honour offers for both History and Philosophy. It was here that I guest lectured for 3rd year Media Ethics on the topic of the representations of the press of the Ripper crimes. I received my Diploma of Education for English & Drama at the University of Melbourne. My Childhood was surrounded by death. Before the age of 9 I had been dead three times. Once, in 1973, when I was aged three, I was overcome by smoke in a house fire. My rescuer dragged me from my burning family home just before the roof collapsed and a volunteer surf lifeguard who had come to watch the fire gave 1st aid. The lifeguard found no heartbeat before he began resuscitation. The second time, I was a five-year-old pedestrian hit and run victim. The paramedics found me lying on the road with severe multiple injuries and no heartbeat having apparently bled to death. The 3rd time was exactly like the second but this time I was eight years old.
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