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Nelson author recounts global sex romp

Posted on November 27, 2009, 9:09am and updated on November 30, 2009 at 8:52 am

Dickloose
If it is true that sex, humour and travel adventure sell, then Jim Ewing’s novel should become a sell-out because it is a story with the lot.

He has been told that the title of the book is “a bit out there”, but so is the autobiographical story of this bluegum farmer and crayfish diver from Nelson, who once travelled around the globe and into the knickers of every willing foreign female that crossed his path.

For some time, while working on his book, Jim did consider naming it “Around the World in 80 Dames”, but because he loves to play with words, settled for a title he considered more appropriate, “Dickloose.”

“It’s basically a play on the movie Footloose, except that my character is looking for amorous adventure,” Jim said.

“Some people may not like it, but they won’t miss it.”

According to Jim, bookshelves sag with accounts by menopausal women who have run off to Tuscany or Toulousse, so why not a a book about a middle-aged man reminiscing about his sexual adventures and misadventures?

The central character, Henry Banjo “Blue” Mooney, who is also the pseudonym of the author, sets off in September 1975 to travel the globe in search of the ever-elusive romantic encounter with a French girl, but in his search gets into the knickers of countless girls from Australia through to Africa.

Written in a graphic, but humorous way, the author uses clever wordplay to entertain.

Having produced five stage plays professionally, Jim said the best thing about writing Dickloose was that he did not have to put up with some “pain in the butt actor”.

“I sent Andrew Rule, the producer of the Underbelly series the first 80 pages of my book, thinking if he said no, I wouldn’t have gone ahead with the book,” Jim said.

“But he loved it and I kept writing.”

The drive to write a novel started some 20 years ago, but every attempt ended in unfinished manuscripts until finally he was challenged by his 14-year-old daughter Lily, who became an integral part of the story in the book.

“But I don’t want her to read the book until she is 21; she has not had the life experience to understand this book, and she has not had the education to understand what I want to do with the writing,” he said.

Jim believes Dickloose will be hated by fascist feminists, but enjoyed by world-wise women with a sense of humour.

“But ultimately it is a bloke’s book,” he said.

Dickloose will be launched at Book City in Mount Gambier at 10.30am on Saturday and Jim will be there to sign copies.

ANELIA BLACKIE

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One Response to “Nelson author recounts global sex romp”

  1. Ebony Jackson on November 27th, 2009 3:40 pm 1

    I like my eggs runny with sauce, the sausage has to be good quality and feel just right.

    Too much information?? yeah I know.

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