Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story From The American Ghetto
by M. Rutledge McCall
Price: $9.95 USD. 144100 words.
Published on December 10, 2011. Nonfiction.
Published to international acclaim, this book details the year and a half the author spent living in South Central L.A., Compton and Watts during the most violent period in the history of Los Angeles. After spending months in gang turf on a regular basis, gang members allowed him to move freely among them as no Caucasian outsider ever before.
Location: United States
Member Since: Dec. 10, 2011
M. Rutledge McCall
Biography
Writer, author, ghostwriter/editor, film & TV screenwriter and script doctor, and mobile interactive fiction writer, for an international clientele.
M. Rutledge McCall has worked in production for all of the major Hollywood film studios, in the 1-hour TV drama writing departments for most of the major TV networks, in senior management in the publishing industry, and in literary career management. He has been featured on TV shows including "Larry King Live," "NBC Today," BBC, PBS, CNN News, KNBC News, PBS/KCET’s "LIFE AND TIMES: Thinkers, Shakers and Newsmakers" and others.
McCall has ghostwritten, edited and/or overseen the editorial work on, more than 60 books for over 40 clients, in genres such as Biography, Sports, Business/Sales, History, the Economy, Medical Mystery/Narrative, the Auto Industry, Energy Industry/Policy, Money Management, Sociology, Fiction (Thrillers, Dramas, Supernatural), Theology, True Crime, and others.
McCall's nonfiction book about street gangs was published to international acclaim. Titled "Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story From the American Ghetto," the story details the year and a half he spent living in South Central L.A., Compton and Watts during the most violent period in LA.'.s history. After spending months in gang turf on a regular basis, sufficient mutual trust grew between him and gang members that they allowed him to be involved in every aspect of their lives: To go where they went, to see what they saw, to move among them as no Caucasian outsider ever before.
M. Rutledge McCall has worked in production for all of the major Hollywood film studios, in the 1-hour TV drama writing departments for most of the major TV networks, in senior management in the publishing industry, and in literary career management. He has been featured on TV shows including "Larry King Live," "NBC Today," BBC, PBS, CNN News, KNBC News, PBS/KCET’s "LIFE AND TIMES: Thinkers, Shakers and Newsmakers" and others.
McCall has ghostwritten, edited and/or overseen the editorial work on, more than 60 books for over 40 clients, in genres such as Biography, Sports, Business/Sales, History, the Economy, Medical Mystery/Narrative, the Auto Industry, Energy Industry/Policy, Money Management, Sociology, Fiction (Thrillers, Dramas, Supernatural), Theology, True Crime, and others.
McCall's nonfiction book about street gangs was published to international acclaim. Titled "Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story From the American Ghetto," the story details the year and a half he spent living in South Central L.A., Compton and Watts during the most violent period in LA.'.s history. After spending months in gang turf on a regular basis, sufficient mutual trust grew between him and gang members that they allowed him to be involved in every aspect of their lives: To go where they went, to see what they saw, to move among them as no Caucasian outsider ever before.
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