Aloha everyone,
I'm not sure if you remember me, but I was planning on writing a book (which I am now doing) about surviving Northwood Children's Home and other places. I'm doing it as a project for my anthropology class, because I needed a deadline or something that would help me face what happened. I needed to write three different sections, and I feel that the third one should be called 'Other Voices'. I don't want it to seem like I'm the only one who lived through it. So I thought I'd ask if anyone would be interested in including their story in my book. So far, I've only sent a query to Inner Ocean Publishing, which is very political and located in Hawai'i (where the only juvenile prison is now under attack for abuse in Honolulu), so I hope they will show some interest in it.
Please write back and let me know. I'm not a con or anything (I've seen suspicions on this board before when someone says they want to write a book), but hopefully those of you who read my previous posts know I'm for real. I know how difficult it is to share these stories with close friends, let alone a total stranger. However, I think it will give more weight to the story, so I don't look like one lone, insane person writing about the horrors of these places. I am particularly interested in people whose experiences were more recent than mine, because I also don't want people to assume that these abuses are long dead in the past.
If you want to know that I'm a writer and I'm not making this up, go to
http://www.simply40.com, under the women's folio, and click on 'no prom dress'. You might have to click through a few articles, but every article aside from the first one is my writing.
I hope to hear from all of you soon. Let's put an end to this.
-nuiloa
