tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304789602011-04-21T18:32:59.710-07:00Odds and ends from non-fiction author Alan EmminsAlan Emminshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040244053759008165noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30478960.post-45322681916800823652008-03-02T06:45:00.000-08:002008-03-02T07:13:55.131-08:00

In preparation for its US release, I have just completed the first edit of Mop Men. Having written the book over four years ago I was unsure how I would find this process going into it. I knew I had to pull out a lot of content, sections that tied the book to 2003; like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governor campaign, news clippings about the Washington Sniper and the death of Elliot Smith. I was

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Peter Joseph of Thomas Dunne Books recently aquired the US rights to Mop Men: California's Crime Scene Cleaners. The book will be an updated edition, and will be available spring 2009.Thomas Dunne Books can be found here >>> thomasdunnebooks.com

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A Night on the Slabs Originally published in Time Out LondonIn the summer of 2004 I lived homeless and penniless on the streets of New York. My aim was to write a book that would capture, without drama and urban myth, the true reality of the life on the streets of New York City. To celebrate the UK release of ’31 Days – A New York Street Diary’ I took to the streets of London with a blanket and a

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I was just cleaning out my over stocked hard drive when I found this picture. It was taken with a disposable camera by JR, one of the homeless guys I met when researching the book '31 Days: A New York Street Diary'. JR lives in a makeshift home in an Amtrak train tunnel just off the West Side Park. This picture was taken just after I woke up at around 8am. It was the first nights secure sleep I

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Chris and I were fooling around making a video for EditRED.com. Though I don't appear in it physically you will get to see my natural talent for special effects. Going by the way I created true to life blood splatter it could be time for a career change...

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Sometimes being on the road for weeks at a time, living in motels and eating crap food, can get you down. My recent trip to Iowa with UK photographer Sacha Maric, where we did a story about the Crystal Meth problem that has plagued the USA and looks to be on its way to Europe, was one such trip. The story was sad and depressing and after seven days we were tired and wanted to go home.We were in a

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While recently in the USA working on a story about American truck drivers, for Penthouse Magazine, UK photographer Sacha Maric and my good self were pulled over by the police while riding in a big 1976 Kenworth. We learnt very quickly that it is illegal to take photographs

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