Saturday, November 16, 2013

Murders in the Swampland 3rd edition




Murders in the Swampland-- West-Central Florida True Crime Cases of 1980s & '90s: from a reporter's notebook
Authored by Patricia Lieb


List Price: $12.25
6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
506 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1493544158 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1493544152
BISAC: True Crime / Murder / General
Serial murders, hate crimes and torture... Who would have expected such violence in the quiet countryside of Hernando County, Florida? Initially covered by award winning reporter Patricia Lieb during her tenure with The Daily Sun Journal, she recounts these and other shocking true crime events in MURDERS IN THE SWAMPLAND. Putting a face on big crimes in the Nature Coast is what Patricia Lieb has done in her book, MURDERS IN THE SWAMPLAND. Chris Van Ormer, Citrus County Chronicle

...all of them are true. All of them terribly grizzly. All of them ripped from the front page headlines of area newspapers. Lara Bradburn, Hernando Today
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Toni Palermo said...

PERMISSION TO USE EXCERPT FROM MURDERS IN THE SWAMPLAND

Hello,

I am having a hard time finding a working email to contact you and I apologize for putting this on your blog.

I have just read your book, "Murders in the Swampland," and I loved it. As a longtime resident of Hernando County, it was interesting to hear about all of the crimes that occurred here in the not so distant past.

One story that struck me was the one about Billy Mansfield. I have recently started teaching English at Weeki Wachee High School and have really started to see how different the area is compared to nearby Spring Hill and Brooksville. I have also recognized some of the places mentioned in the passage.

Would be okay to use an excerpt from this story in a project I will be doing with some of my students? I would need to edit it a bit for content and language but would keep most of what is yours. I will be having them read it for comprehension, answer questions and I am also thinking about putting grammatical errors on one of the pages and having them correct it. I would be making about 35 copies of this once I have finished editing it.

I teach students who are making up credits in English and are not very thrilled about reading anything. Everyday my students tell me that they hate reading stories that have nothing to do with them or are set in places they've never been. Many students have barely ever left the county. I wanted to give them something interesting to read about that actually happened in their hometown.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,

T. Palermo

April 11, 2014

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