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2017-08-10 Carole Baskin’s Diary
Today was the last day of hosting author, Jessica Speart, who is most well known for her Rachel Porter mystery series. She wrote 10 books in the series, since the mid 1980s and her character plays a USFWS agent. Jessica also wrote the non fiction book, Winged Obsession about the dark butterfly trade.
Experience has shown her that she can reach a much broader audience under the guise of fiction, so her next book, about the trade in exotic cats, will use Rachel Porter as the vehicle to reach as many people as possible with the true issues that face wild cats. She is a long time friend of Bill and Kiz’ and came for a week of research into the issues and to get ideas from seeing the Tampa bay area, where she plans to set the stage.
While here we visited Hamburger Mary’s in Ybor (as Rachel Porter’s best friend is a drag queen), a monastery on the Palm River, Tarpon Springs sponge docks, Carnie Town in Gibsonton, downtown Tampa, the Plant Museum, dinner at Jasmine Thai and all the little towns in between. On her own she visited Dade City’s Wild Things and took a four hour boat ride down the Silver River.
Some ideas we gave her for the thriller included ways a cat could escape, ways the controlled drugs could end up being used for mis intended purposes, and places like the Bone Museum in OKC where tigers can end up illegally.
Jessica kept saying how much I was like her character; smart, wickedly sarcastic sense of humor and determined. Guess I’ll have to read the books.
Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/
I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.
You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!
Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile
You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org
Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue
Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion. Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk
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By Carole BaskinToday was the last day of hosting author, Jessica Speart, who is most well known for her Rachel Porter mystery series. She wrote 10 books in the series, since the mid 1980s and her character plays a USFWS agent. Jessica also wrote the non fiction book, Winged Obsession about the dark butterfly trade.
Experience has shown her that she can reach a much broader audience under the guise of fiction, so her next book, about the trade in exotic cats, will use Rachel Porter as the vehicle to reach as many people as possible with the true issues that face wild cats. She is a long time friend of Bill and Kiz’ and came for a week of research into the issues and to get ideas from seeing the Tampa bay area, where she plans to set the stage.
While here we visited Hamburger Mary’s in Ybor (as Rachel Porter’s best friend is a drag queen), a monastery on the Palm River, Tarpon Springs sponge docks, Carnie Town in Gibsonton, downtown Tampa, the Plant Museum, dinner at Jasmine Thai and all the little towns in between. On her own she visited Dade City’s Wild Things and took a four hour boat ride down the Silver River.
Some ideas we gave her for the thriller included ways a cat could escape, ways the controlled drugs could end up being used for mis intended purposes, and places like the Bone Museum in OKC where tigers can end up illegally.
Jessica kept saying how much I was like her character; smart, wickedly sarcastic sense of humor and determined. Guess I’ll have to read the books.
Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/
I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.
You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile!
Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile
You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org
Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue
Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion. Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk