HUB: PSK / the Book

Title Brainstorm

• Five Years Down
• Five Years in the Underworld
• Five Percent
• WhiteBoy
• The Tribulations of Phoenix
• Corrected
• My Correctional Journey
• My Prison Journey
• Thirty Days in the Hole
• Riches to Rags
• Cages of Cement and Steel
• the Beaumont Redemption
• Hard Edges

Hard Edges

My Journey into the Depths
of the American Prison System
and back to the Land of the Free

General Outline / Narrative Arc:
Crime, Punishment, Redemption… Victory

Most prison books (that I read) are structured as follows:

• first 50% of length details the crimes that led them there (including the chase and the capture).
• Then there is the transformational moment (some time after imprisonment).
• Then there is the prison sentence and the adventures on the “Inside” (a glossary is necessary!)
• Finally, there is the re-integration into the free,
• and finally finally, the ultimate success of the protagonist.

…That’s the standard template.