Monday, August 10, 2009

Little Green Houses Outline.

Well, okay. You've made it this far and, fantastic! Quick, house-keeping notes from a few more emailed questions.

1. Would I ghost-write this, while working with a "branded/platformed writer?" Oooooo, yeeeeeaaaaaaaaah, uhm, I'm gonna have to go ahead and say no to that? Especially if, no one wants to tell me who that special someone might be? See, that doesn't work for me to sign something like that up-front in an informational vacuum. Not good.

2. (At the other end of the spectrum) "You shouldn't blast email people! I hate you!" Yeaaaaaaaaah, uhm? With apologies, the bread-line business-model, the soup-kitchen slush walk that we writers all know and love isn't going to work with a topic this hot. And I've mentioned this, previously. With all due respect to hard-working, honest, gutsy, excellent agents out there who understand the need for this book NOW, while the topic is hot, you can understand why I have to do what I am doing now, can't you?


Little Green Houses: Florida Grow Houses and the Rise of Home-Grown Organized Crime
By David A. Kearns

Circa 300 pages with photos. Non-fiction, current events




II. An Outline: Little Green Houses: Florida Grow Houses and the Rise of Home-Grown Organized Crime

1. The state of the problem in Florida

2. Early Case Study: Main Street Pub, Melbourne Florida 2005

3. Brevard County


5. The marijuana life-cycle and effects of THC on the human brain.

6. How a grow house is made.

7. Ties to organized crime and gangs.

10. Hazards of Grow houses

11. Why Deltona? Innordinate number of cases in one town?
11. The heartland: Orange, Polk and Osceola counties

12. South Florida: Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe

13. Southwest Florida
14. Tampa-Hillsborough

15. The Panhandle

16. Jacksonville County

17. Grow houses and law enforcement efforts
18. The shaky state of Florida prisons versus the marijuana trade
19. The future and responsible public policy

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