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Lee McGowan is an award-winning researcher, teacher and writer. His primary research interests are in the intersections of sport and creative writing, digital narratives and community engagement. He recently co-authored the monographs, Women's Football in Oceania (Routledge, 2024) with Kasey Symons and Yoko Kanemeasu and Beach Soccer Histories (Routledge 2024) with Elizabeth Ellison and Michele Lastella. He also published the monograph, Football in Fiction: a History (Routledge 2020), and co-authored the novel-length work of creative non-fiction, Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football, (NewSouth, 2019). His digital narrative research project on the history of women's football was launched in Queensland Parliament in February 2021. He has published traditional and non-traditional research outputs including journal articles, book chapters, an exhibition, fiction, creative non-fiction and locative literature.
Kasey Symons is a research fellow in the Sport Innovation Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. She works across industry partnered research projects that focus on sport and social impact and sports development for governing bodies of sport. Another key research focus is on sport and creative writing, winning the 2018 Lyle Olsen graduate prize at the Sport Literature Association for her published work on gender bias in reading sport fiction written by women. Symons also currently serves as the President of the Sport Literature Association and as the social media editor of its accompanying journal, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. Symons is also an award nominated sportswriter having been nominated in the prestigious Quill awards for excellence in journalism as awarded by the Melbourne Press Club in 2020 for her coverage of women's sport. Symons has been published in The Guardian, The Irish Times, ABC, The Footy Almanac, in the book BalancingActs: Women in Sport and was co-editor of the book The Women's Footy Almanac 2018 and co-edited a Special Issue for Text: Journal of Creative Writing on Creative Writing and Sport with Dr Lee McGowan. Kasey is a co-founder and contributor to the women in sport media platform Siren Sport which drives women's sports coverage by diverse voices.
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Read the first book and this 2nd one did not disappoint! Loved every chapter. More please!
Like it was written by George Santos
Received an Advanced Reader Copy from a friend. I am an avid true crime reader and upon completion I question if the author is credible. The timeline does not add up for his age and the times of his alleged involvement in organized crime. Some of the things in the book he is alleged to have said and done I remember almost word for word from movies I had previously watched. He literally stole a scene from the movie the accountant with Ben Affleck and said that he did it. I did a little research after completing the book and learned that this author was also claiming in 2010 that he was a long time member of the Bloods Gang. That coupled with the above leads me to believe that it is nothing more than fantasy. Do not waste your time or money
Like it was written by George Santos
Received an Advanced Reader Copy from a friend. I am an avid true crime reader and upon completion I question if the author is credible. The timeline does not add up for his age and the times of his alleged involvement in organized crime. Some of the things in the book he is alleged to have said and done I remember almost word for word from movies I had previously watched. He literally stole a scene from the movie the accountant with Ben Affleck and said that he did it. I did a little research after completing the book and learned that this author was also claiming in 2010 that he was a long time member of the Bloods Gang. That coupled with the above leads me to believe that it is nothing more than fantasy. Do not waste your time or money
What a difficult story to tell. I appreciate the honesty and vulnerability. Definitely made me think.
I had hopes for this book but was not expecting what I would read within the pages. If your kink is deplorable grammar, incoherent sentences, and inconsistent messages, then this book is for you. At first, I thought the book I received was not the book I ordered. But as I dived in, it was very confusing. I would not recommend this book to anyone
There are not many reviews on the internet for this book. In researching the many stores selling the book, it was self-published which makes a lot of sense. The online description is written perfectly, so reading the actual book was very difficult. Pages two and three are written clearly as well as the table of contents. Pages 155 and 156 are also written logically.
It appears this book was written, then sent through a program like “Grammarly.” Once completed it seems it was published without being re-read or edited. The first clue was the title narrative that used “Has” instead of “As.” The table of contents is one page off from what it shows on pages four though seven. Many of the “q’s” are written as “[]”
Below are some examples of what was within the pages of this book written verbatim:
“Chains & Discipline/ Domination & entry/ Sadism & Masochism (BDSM) is a wide classification of bed room play.” Page 9
“When bringing up the topic of chains, you are actually asking a person to offer you their depend on, their flexibility, and also possibly their suggestion of security in exchange for sensual/sexual enjoyment, power-play, and also feasible re-evaluation of your very own connection.” Page 39
“Techni[]ue can take a selection of kinds and also be as easy or facility as you pick to (new paragraph) bargain for your details scenario” Page 52
“BDSM stands for chains as well as entry, technique and also supremacy as well as sadism and also masochism.” Page 125
“SHELF means Risk Aware Consensual Kink.” Page 130
“Approval is whatever.” Page 152
“your twist isn’t my twist, yet your twist is OKAY.” Page 153
“You can be a top, base, or button” Page 153