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Ellis Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Maybe.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Yeah.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I like to keep it short.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Because I have a lot of friends that I want to read my books that are semi-literate high school dropouts.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And like he read the first, he read the, my homie who loved this book read the first page of this one.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And he was like, dude.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

this book it's like overly you want to go ahead and since you love audible why don't you read i'm not gonna i'm not gonna read it because you don't want it because i have dyslexia and i read like a fourth grader and that's part of the reason why this book is written the way it is because i just embrace my dyslexia i also write with a typewriter and then i uh scan in the pages and just copy and paste them to google docs and i don't really edit them that much i like i think it retains some uh some rawness so yeah that's pretty much it i'll get out of you guys here so you can this is this is hold on what's going on what okay

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

You got... Yeah, that's the dialogue of the character in there.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Oh, okay.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

He's speaking in Spanish.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I like that Cormac McCarthy did that.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I'm hugely influenced by Cormac McCarthy.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

He has large portions of his book where a character speaks Spanish and he doesn't translate.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So you just got to figure out how to translate it or speak Spanish.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Are these selling?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Yeah, to people I know.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Yeah.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I mean, I do events, and this is like I'll go play music or I'll DJ or I'll go do a spoken word thing and then bring copies to sell.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And that's basically the only way I'm selling books.