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I was due to spend a lot of money with the council on advertising yet two weeks before that advertising was due to go live I was told they could not support a book that was so salacious.
My crime was writing a book where the heroine was abused by her father-in-law and that he continued to attack her from beyond the grave.
There reasoning was that as they supported a woman's refuge they could not be seen condoning violence against women. I could understand that if i was writing anything else bar fiction by its definition fiction means its made up and is not real. But the powers that are our leaders saw otherwise and so like Lady Chatterley i am consigned to the wasteland of iniquity.
I did ask if Oliver would be in future banned as well as that is about child labour and grooming for a life of crime but they refused to comment. tell me what you think I would be interested.
More later i have to do some writing this afternoon The Ties That Bind has to go for its second reading very soon and i have fallen behind.
Hello David,
ReplyDelete1) I can't understand how a book of fiction portraying a father abusing his daughter could ever be poisoning the mind of it's readers or suggest/promote violence on women
2) I can't understand how by writing something great on women, it can uplift women's standard of living or their welfare when in reality women are not very much appreciated
Moral policing seems to have suddenly gathered a momemtum of its own around the world. Very sad and all of us together need to find a way to fight this evil.
ReplyDeleteAre we already living in an era of "Big Brother is Watching You"? For those people living in Canterbury it would most certainly seem so! What right have Canterbury Council to ban a fine historical work of fiction from the bookshelves? Not only have they lowered the esteem of the author, David T. Procter, and gone to some lengths to undermine the success of his brilliant book "Dead Men Lie", but have also taken on a dictatorial role in restricting the citizens of Canterbury as to what they can and cannot read.
ReplyDeleteI was both shocked and quite disgusted to learn of this petty and single-minded action that the Council felt they should take in this matter. The story of the book - yes folks, a fictitious story - holds ones interest right to the very end, and bears no relationship to real-life stories read in newspapers and seen on TV. So Councillors .... why???