About this user
M. Rutledge McCall is a published author, book ghostwriter and film and television script doctor, with an international clientele. He has worked for all of the major Hollywood film studios, in the one-hour television drama writing departments for most of the major TV networks, in senior management in the publishing industry, and in music management, producing and creative affairs. He has been featured on numerous TV shows, including "Larry King Live," "NBC Today," BBC, PBS, CNN News, KNBC News, KCETs "LIFE AND TIMES: Thinkers, Shakers and Newsmakers" and others, as well as several national radio programs.
. He has ghostwritten, edited, and/or overseen the editorial work for, 38 high profile authors and 54 book projects, in genres that include Biography, Business/Sales, Christian Living, Drama/Fiction, History, Medical Narrative/Mystery, Money Management, Sociology, Sports, Thriller/Fiction, and Theology.
. In 2001, McCall's nonfiction book about street gangs was published to international acclaim. Titled "Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story From the American Ghetto", the story details the nearly year and a half McCall spent living in South Central L.A., Compton and Watts. During that time, gang members were sending bullet-riddled corpses to county morgues at the rate of one every 12 hours. After spending months in gang turf on a regular basis, sufficient mutual trust grew between him and gang members that they allowed him to be involved in every aspect of their lives: To go where they went, to see what they saw, to move among them as no white outsider ever before.
. By 2010, street gangs such as La Eme (the Mexican Mafia) and the BGF (Black Guerilla Family) had spread into and gained virtual free reign of the nation's prisons, where Latinos far outnumber Blacks, and violence between the two had risen to alarming levels. This is the true story of the more innocent days, when a white writer moved freely among the gangs of South Central L.A. during the year that encompassed the most violent episodes ever to grip Los Angeles: the Rodney King beating and the trial of the police officers involved, the Latasha Harlins murder by a Korean grocer, and the deadliest riot in modern American history. The events McCall witnessed and participated in, not only shattered his perceptions of racism, they shattered his entire life. The sequence of some of the events in this stunning account has been shuffled, in order to protect the guilty...the author included.
. McCall is dedicated to using his God-given talents solely for the purpose of raising the standard of entertainment to the highest possible levels. He is committed to creating entertainment that is anchored by a foundation of truth, lifted on the wings of hope, and pulsing with an undercurrent of redemption. Stories, books, movies, and TV and internet shows from which audiences come away with the realization that there is a higher way to live, to think, to behave.
To purchase McCalls book at Amazon.com, go to: http://bit.ly/nPVDp
To connect with McCall on Twitter, go to: www.Twitter.com/MRutledgeMcCall
