BEYOND THE PAINTED SMILE (Mini bookend biog) (k****e & print on demand*)
This is a frank, gritty and sometimes humorous account of Author and Multi-Platform Artist Russell C. Brennan's childhood and teenage years, fighting massive adversity and against all odds becoming a writer and a lot more besides as he is now a successful Multi Platform Artist.
Part two of the book gives an insight into his life as one of the very few males Geishas in the world.
He says he doesn't want it seen as a sob story but more of an inspiration to others, as to what can be achieved.
Most people have one abuser to contend with, he had at least 4 different ones to deal with, leaving him very little room to escape persecution most days and it was the things that he now excels at that he feels saved him, effect
