Legless in Thailand E-Book - MMXI
The never ending story
7 July, 2011 - Update on my E-Book
My e-book is currently being prepared, revised and re-edited, hopefully it should be available for purchase within the next year or so.
I originally submitted this book/story
to a US publisher four years ago and they
charged me $300 just to accept it and as
you will see from my story, this money that I had to pay to the
publishers to accept my book is a lot of money for me these days and
even to this day I still don't know what the $300
was charged for. All that I ever received from them was one copy of my
book from the draft book that I had to send to them in .pdf format and they don't print any more hard
copy books until they get definite orders and even then, they take 80% and I just get 20%
of the total retail price. so what was the $300
for? It seems like a publishing scam to me. At least with the e-book
copy from them I get 80% so if you do got to their site please
buy the e-book and help me, I need all of the help that I can
get these days!
This new e-book tjhat I am writing, unlike my draft book submitted to the US publishers, I am in complete control of and as such I think that I should introduce myself properly to the discerning individuals that may decide to purchase it.
My real name is Ian Reed and John McMiken is just my writing name. I am a British citizen and I am now an amputee living a recluse life alone in Thailand. I first came to Thailand in June of 1984, I came here to take care of the installation of a new air defence simulator system for the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) at Don Muang Air Base near Bangkok, the book itself will explain in much more detail and I am just giving you a basic overview of the story here. When I first came to Thailand, I was already married to a British girl and we had two children, one boy named Douglas aged 10 years and a girl named Cheryl aged 4 years. I had always been completely faithful to my British wife ever since we were married, but the long simulator installation project in Thailand led me into sexual temptation and like the 'fool' that I now call myself, I fell for a Thai bar girl and before returning to the UK, she was already pregnant with our first child.
I later divorced my UK wife and came to live in Thailand in February of 1986 with the intention of starting a whole new life here with this Thai girl and my then five month old son with her. The story itself doesn't start with this action, the story in this book starts in the year 2001 when I had an almost fatal road traffic accident in Thailand which left me with just one leg. My life had changed a lot in the intervening years after my first move to Thailand in 1986 and many things happened that I was definitely not expecting, incidents that would not be usual for most other people. These are all covered in my e-book and I am just writing this introduction so that people who are interested in purchasing this e-book will have a good idea about the outlines of the story.
I refer to this e-book as the 'Autobiography of a fool' and you will understand why if you decide to read it, I do hope that other people can learn from the many mistakes that I made in the name of 'love' in my story and I hope that they will not make the same mistakes themselves with bad people (Thai girls), like I did.
Even though my book was published in 2007 it only covers the period up to 2002 and many things have happened since then, After further problems I am now virtually bedridden and living like a hermit in a small room in Bangkok. I would like to update my book and format it as an e-book to download from the internet. I shall link to the e-book site on here just as soon as it is available, but at the moment I am still working on the story because it is still ongoing with new events happening daily, my never ending story!
Due
to
unforeseen
circumstances
my
e-book has now been further delayed,
this is due to changes in my personal circumstances that I cannot
control but which may be followed by reading my Legless blog
My main book webpage is: http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Legless.html
More information about me can be found at any of the links below:
http://www.reedinter.co.uk/About.htm or http://www.expostfacto.co.uk/Author.html
Another update soon I hope!
John McMiken 
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