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Little Green Houses: Florida Grow Houses and the Rise of Home-Grown Organized Crime
Non-fiction
Circa 300 pages with photos
(book proposal continued)
5. The Market for the book Little Green Houses.
It's a Perfect Storm, for pot! There is no reputable book out, at this time, covering the phenomenon of marijuana grow houses and there should be.
Let us state that again: this is a new topic, it’s very hot, it’s been all over the news and no one has written a book covering the phenomenon with a journalist’s eye toward objectivity and straight-forward detail. 
Television network CNBC just produced “Marijuana Inc.” an hour-long special which focused mostly on California, but did touch on grow houses. CNN through Anderson Cooper has discussed the new trend several times recently. In the age of instant information, whether a book in the past of a similar nature will do well, also has to be measured against what is on YouTube and how many hits it is receiving. Grown houses, and film clips sent in by law enforcement, are all the rage. Most of the film clips are coming from the state of Florida, where tougher laws have done nothing but spread the phenomenon around. There is even a nine-part series called “How to Build a Basic Indoor Weed Grow-room” produced by something called “Letushelpyougrowweed” and the hits on this new video clip on YouTube are into the tens of thousands, as of Aug. 3, 2009 and growing every day.
Little Green Houses would take advantage of this market. Anyone interested enough to sit through the whole nine, series of ten-minute videos on how to grow pot, would certainly opt for a book that outlays the state of the business in the busiest state of the industry; a book that details the pitfalls of involvement with organized crime as well as law-enforcement efforts to shut it all down. Little Green Houses is written in a tone and style that is also useful to those in law enforcement, and perhaps more importantly, those affecting public policy in Florida, and all fifty states. I imagine this as a work that either side of the aisle in both houses of congress could hold up and either lambaste for giving away too much information or praise for giving the country an honest picture of the problem, the market, and the need for clear thinking on the issue of this widespread substance.With members of congress holding your book up on C-SPAN and yelling about it, either to praise or damn it for its audacity, we can see there is a ready-made marketing plan.
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