Arpaio's karma finally caught up with him today. Read more here.
A New Adventure (Part 20)
Approaching the anniversary of my ten-year release from
prison, I’m pleased to announce the publication of my eighth book over that
period. The Cali Cartel: Beyond Narcos
is now available worldwide on Amazon as a paperback
and an e-book here. The audiobook will be available within
two weeks. If you live in the USA, you have a chance to win a copy of the
paperback for free at this Amazon giveaway. The Cali Cartel took over
Pablo Escobar’s cocaine business, and the book includes the war between the
cartels. Here’s the Narcos trailer introducing Gilberto –
the head of the Cali Cartel – as the new super-villain for Narcos Season 3.
For my long-term blog readers, the only Arizona prisoner I still
get letters consistently from is T-Bone, a former US Marine who uses his
fighting skills to stop prison rape. His harrowing accounts of Arizona prison
life can be read at my blog here.
My YouTube channel subscribers have risen. I should be over
10,000 by the end of the year. I’ve set up a prison questions playlist. If you have any
prison questions you’d like to see me make a video about, please add them to
the YouTube comments or email them to me at attwood.shaun@hotmail.co.uk
Sales are starting to rise for my book American Made on the back of the imminent release of the Tom Cruise
movie American Made. The action-packed trailer about the CIA’s
cocaine smuggling pilot Barry Seal is here, but from watching it, I can tell
that the movie has whitewashed Barry’s story to make it US government friendly
– just like Narcos is told from the
DEA’s perspective. The DEA agents threatened to pull out of Narcos if Pablo Escobar’s son was
allowed to contribute.
I’m just finishing the final book in my War on Drugs series, We Are Being Lied To, which hopefully should be published by the
end of the year.
In August, I have three talks in London. Tickets and further info.
2 FREE Audiobook Giveaways
Audiobook Giveaway 1
If you’d like a free audiobook of American Made about the
CIA drug smuggler Barry Seal, I have some Amazon codes to give away, so just
email me your request and state your country at attwood.shaun@hotmail.co.uk
Audiobook Giveaway 2
If you’d like a free audiobook of Unmaking a Murderer based
on the Netflix series, I have some Amazon codes to give away, so just email me
your request and state your country at attwood.shaun@hotmail.co.uk
Shaun Attwood
A New Adventure (Part 19)
It was a real honour to be asked to judge prisoners’ short
stories for the Koestler Trust, who help prisoners rehabilitate through art.
Ten years ago, I won a Koestler Award for a short story, which I read to an
audience at London’s Royal Festival Hall. It got me a place on the Koestler
mentor scheme, and I was assigned a published author, who helped me achieve my
writing goals and launched me as an author. My sessions with my mentor are all available here.
There has been lots of Making a Murderer news.
Kathleen Zellner filed a 1,272-page notice for post-conviction relief. She
named Ryan Hillegas as the lead murder suspect and accused Ken Kratz of
fraudulent conduct. The motion was so significant that I have replaced the
chapter at the end of Unmaking a Murderer with a new chapter titled “Did Ryan
Hillegas Kill Teresa?” which you can listen to me narrate here.
The Federal Court ruled in favour of Brendan Dassey, and
mandated that some action must be taken within 90 days such as retrying him.
The corrupt State of Wisconsin is throwing vast taxpayers resources at holding
this innocent young man in prison because they don’t want to pay millions in
compensation. It’s despicable that they have not only destroyed a mild-mannered
teenager’s life, but that they continue to incarcerate him with zero evidence
of him ever committing a crime.
I’ve added several new videos to my Making a Murderer
playlist, which are all available here.
If you’d like a free audiobook of Unmaking a Murderer, I
still have some Amazon codes to give away, so just email me your request and
state your country at attwood.shaun@hotmail.co.uk
Shaun Attwood