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Zack Bonnie

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Actor and multi- media artist. Author of book series:

Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir. (2015) by Zack Bonnie
Dead, Insane, or in Jail: Overwritten! (2018) Publisher: Not With the Program

The anticipated series continues! Accurate, harrowing, suspenseful first-hand narrative, with plenty of juicy dialogue.

Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir
Published 8/2015.
Dead, Insane, or in Jail: Overwritten!
Public release: 3/2018

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Zack Bonnie I have finished reading the book Institutionalized Persuasion by Mr. Marcus M. Chatfield. I hope that people read his research and plea for more, at …more I have finished reading the book Institutionalized Persuasion by Mr. Marcus M. Chatfield. I hope that people read his research and plea for more, at the same time, or immediately prior to Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir.

"these books ready do unzip each other."

We're detailing forces of institutionalized coercive persuasion. Programs that deal out experimental therapies for misappropriated kids, and the processes that must be in play for any person's deepest fears, most private thoughts, and personal emotions to be used within the contrived situational context of "high control groups." The overwriting of natural developing of free- thought, sound mind, whole body, and a once normal soul takes recovery time.

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Zack Bonnie Right now I get inspired to write by finishing the process of publishing the first book in the series. Fulfilling appreciated pre-orders from early su…moreRight now I get inspired to write by finishing the process of publishing the first book in the series. Fulfilling appreciated pre-orders from early supporters leads me in opposite directions.

But soon I'll finally be tackling the bulk of the existing second book. Inspiration will come as the real world fades away. I'll enter the abysmal cave of writing despair that drives the project- from memory. Allowing the existing groundwork to do the work of selling the E-book gives me time.

Between THE BOOK'S WEB-STORE that sells the book, the new partners have their reach: Ganxy, Amazon, Goodreads, ought to be able to assist a beginning reach into academia. I should be able to get into the writing zone during the fall/winter slumber. Look for big news about the sequel (working title) DIJ: Overwritten! in March.

An outline and piles of notes inspire me when I'm not rereading sentences to insist they push along the story.
Hearing from other people that were in high-control groups inspires.
The rest is magic combined with research and the desire to educate. (less)

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Zack Bonnie's Blog: TTI Book CEDU DIJ

Ebook Free 8/25/2017

Dead, Insane, or in Jail A CEDU Memoir by Zack Bonnie

Celebrate 2 years since "A CEDU Memoir" was published. Anticipate the release of the sequel entitled "Overwritten!" Watch the process as galley copies are produced and offered this fall! (2017)
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Series by Zack Bonnie

CEDU Memoir (2 books)
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Jonathan Weiner (Illustrator),

Anne Carley (Editor)

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Institutionalized Persuasion

by Marcus Chatfield

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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

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Consider adding http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Insane-Jai... to your 2016 Goodreads reading challenge? The Ebook can be procured at the website, if you're in to Indie and worthy self-published work. Not for the feint hearted. Not With The Program: www.deadinsaneorinjail.com/store

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