Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 27 – AFTERWORD

 

Readers, this is not a one-minute read; it’s become a tad more than 100 words.  Frankly, this is a work in progress and one’s currently up to now 61,000 words overall thus far, though we’re getting close to finishing this collated manuscript.  One estimates that once completed, this article (applying AI-guesstimate averaging of 100 words per minute) the 61,000 words would extrapolate to an 11-hour read!  So thesis stuff!

This article has then clearly built up in content too much to be a reasonable single reading sitting.  Also our choice of website software is having conniptions coping with our excessive words for this one article.

So we have decided mid-manuscript that once our sourced and edited content is all but done, we’re considering dividing up this article into chapters, so that each chapter becomes a separate article for convenience to readers.  Compare perhaps with an Amazon Kindle book.

We have evolved that thinking to create a web-book.

We shall then first need to provide necessary technical cross-links between the chapters to the entire web-book, as well as back links to the Table of Contents, so that readers can flow their reading back to the Table of Contents and also to adjoining chapters forward and backward.

This entails quite bit of extra work, but will served useful as a web-book template for us going forward.  We haven’t written such a long article like this before, but mean to give this rare and untold full story justice and in so doing facilitate the reading to be in manageable reading chunks.

Like, given that apparently Google AI averages read time to be 1 minute per 100 words, a reader-friendly chapter of this new web-book may be as long as 3000 words – so each chapter taking an average of about 30 minutes to read, which we surmise will be a convenient duration to many book readers.

Quite differently to normal publishing of finished works, we offer this work currently as ‘live’ drafting – so published while still unfinished – this is so readers can see how our web-book unpublished gets written as a work in progress!    Though, when finished we’ll note CONTENT COMPLETE at the start of this Preface.

This article started off in its draft form by just collating what one could muster from media reporting available from 2013 as information was made public by police in dribs and drabs. 

One then paused researching content for a time (over a decade in fact) due to other personal commitments and stuff.  Now back at it, it’s evolving into a thesis of sorts due out of our respect for a need to share the truth about a locally significant Blue Mountains tragedy that should never have happened.  But it did.  The story is worth telling as best as research allows.

Our article is not about us nor personal.  It is about a circumstantial local tragedy of a young visitor to our Blue Mountains back in 2013.  But the timing matters not.

One commenced drafting this story soon after, but left it for a time (a decade in fact) due to other commitments and life stuff, but currently back at the drafting; it’s evolving into a unexpected thesis of sorts.

One has collated research, local knowledge, subsequent ground-truthing, and one’s career bent for analysis/investigation – well, we’ve started putting it all to paper so to speak.

Out of our respect to share the truth about a locally significant Blue Mountains tragedy that should never have happened.  But it did.

This topic might become one’s first foray into writing a webbook.  May be we are one alternative to Kindle, yet one’ll never seek or charge a cent.  One’s just learning from one;s personal local unique experience, then realising this story as a passion for one to learn to comprehend, then a need to share with others to grow from, hopefully.

This topic might become one’s first foray into writing a web-book.  May be we are one alternative to Kindle, yet we’ll never seek to or will ever charge a cent.  One’s just learning from one’s personal local unique experience, then realising this story as a passion for one to learn to comprehend, then a need to share with others to grow from, hopefully.

Article Update 2025-05-22:

 

With our manuscript for this still unfinished book all but done, except for the last chapter due to software conniptions, we have turned from the writing for now to the publishing phase.   Since this endeavour is one of self-publishing, one has researched online exploring the topic phrases like ‘book writing’, ‘parts of a book’, and ‘self-publishing’, and the like.

We have with such learning since updated our Table of Contents for this current work-in-progress book yet again, thus:

CONTENTS

In PARTS:

  1. Front Cover
  2. Back Page Blurb
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Frontispiece
  7. Foreword
  8. Disclaimer
  9. Dedication
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Table of Contents
  12. Preface
  13. Introduction: Gary Tweddle
  14. Chapter  1:  A limited backstory
  15. Chapter  2:  Oracle’s 2013 sales conference
  16. Chapter  3:  Gary’s state of mind?
  17. Chapter  4:  Blue Mountains massive search
  18. Chapter  5:  Critique about the search
  19. Chapter  6:  Our own ‘ground-truthing’
  20. Chapter  7:  Discovery later by fluke
  21. Chapter  8:  Gary ‘lost in darkness’
  22. Chapter  9:  Gary’s cocaine deal
  23. Chapter  10:  NSW Police disclose vital facts 
  24. Chapter  11:  Dénouement:  Cocaine use at Oracle
  25. Chapter  12:  Sydney:  World’s cocaine capital?
  26. Epilogue
  27. Afterword
  28. Bibliography
  29. Author Bio

So, this author’s current plan now is, due to software conniptions, is separately in tandem to off-line create an article for each part of this book, then PHP code technical hyperlinks between each so as to create the web-book over multiple interlinked articles, then to copy across the manuscript content, then publish it here then, delete the original 61,000 whale article, then notify y’all via Nature Trail’s front page.

We emphasise that this is to not be a printed book, nor an e-book (which requires specialist software dependency), but instead to be a ‘web-book‘ and to be ‘self-published‘ within this ‘Mountains Drums‘ blog on this our ‘Nature Trail‘ website.

The literary genre one prefers is NOT fiction, NOT documentary non-fiction, rather moreso a contemporary sub-genre of ‘creative nonfiction‘, spiced with critical thinking and analysis – both quantitative and qualitative.   This choice of writing style draws upon one’s career background, in business analysis, forensic accounting, and quite separately conservation activism and an innate quest for truth telling.

Thanks for your patience.

Another known local Blue Mountains author, Christopher Webber, has also previously in 2023 written an article on this case. [See References chapter at the end of this article].

Article Update 2025-05-25:

So, as conversion from an’ article’ of 61,000 though still incomplete with the last (body of this book) chapter due to restricted software capacity, one’s modifying the now morphed web-book’ TABLE OF CONTENTS’ thus:

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS (REVISED) 

(WEB-BOOK PARTS:)

  1. Front Cover
  2. Back Page Blurb
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Frontispiece
  7. Foreword
  8. Disclaimer
  9. Dedication
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Table of Contents
  12. Preface
  13. Introduction: Gary Tweddle
  14. Chapter  1:  A limited backstory
  15. Chapter  2:  Oracle’s 2013 sales conference
  16. Chapter  3:  Gary’s state of mind?
  17. Chapter  4:  Blue Mountains massive search
  18. Chapter  5:  Critique about the search
  19. Chapter  6:  Our own ‘ground-truthing’
  20. Chapter  7:  Discovery later by fluke
  21. Chapter  8:  Gary ‘lost in darkness’
  22. Chapter  9:  Gary’s cocaine deal
  23. Chapter  10:  NSW Police disclose vital facts 
  24. Chapter  11:  Dénouement:  Cocaine use at Oracle
  25. Chapter  12:  Sydney:  World’s cocaine capital?
  26. Epilogue
  27. Afterword
  28. Further Reading
  29. Author Bio

Article update 2025-06-01:

 

One has been distracted on other priority project of late since a week ago, so apologies for delaying our update towards finishing this article.

What is left to do is to create the framework for the web-book on this Mountains Drums blog, which we have now completed as per the 29 PARTS listed above.  However, all this is offline at present and still in draft form.  Some PHP coding is required to be scribed so that each PART becomes hyperlinked interconnected so as to, once complete, facilitates convenient online navigation for readers between the web-book’s PARTS.

The entire content of this article (manuscript if you were) is currently being copied across to the respective 29 chapters of our new web-book – indeed our very first web-book endeavour.

Yet the substantial volume of content warranted it – the software couldn’t cope with our now 61,000+ word single article.  “Necessity is the mother of invention”, as they say.

So, we are allocating various components of this articles ‘manuscript’ to the appropriate  PARTS of the web-book, as we learn from scratch where to best apply select sections of manuscript.  We will also need to add new content to fill the front and back parts of the web-book’s PARTS, outside the book’s body content chapters.  This is a new learning  exercise for us.

In addition, our still unwritten final (book body) Chapter 12: ‘Sydney: World’s cocaine capital? is to be completed.  This we shall do incrementally, AFTER the web-book is published.  So in the same way that ‘pre-readers’ have been followed this unfinished yet published article to date, we shall continue our transparent publishing of our drafting.

Further research content has also of late  come to hand, so we shall incorporate that as well.

Having taken on many role ‘hats’ and distracted by other unrelated project priorities, this project still remains a work in progress, sorry.  One’s aim is that the final published result will be one of quality and do respect and justice to the story’s legacy.

No financial gain is sought.  Every web-book we publish shall be free and public, but copyright so we don’t get rorted or misconstrued by those with malice.

Our work progresses methodically.  Stay tuned from time to time, and again thanks for your patience throughout.

Article update 2025-06-07:

 

This long article has since 1st June 2025, been converted into a ‘web-book’ and re-entitled ‘Missing Gary Tweddle‘ having multiple 29 web-pages, or ‘PARTS’ of this book on this same website.

Each of the 29 parts of the book are interconnected in sequence as per the Table of Contents (PART 11), with hyperlinks at the bottom of each webpage that respectively link to the following:

  • >Top of this webpage ‘PART’
  • >Next PART
  • >Previous PART
  • >Back to Table of Contents

 

This is a convenient link to the start of that web-book:

https://naturetrail.com.au/blog-post/missing-gary-tweddle-book-part-1-front-cover/

A second link to the web-book is via this website’s front page, on the right column showing a copy of the original poster ‘Missing Gary Tweddle’.

Some parts are still as yet unfinished, notably Parts 2, 3, 4, 7 and 25.  So regrettably it is still a work in progress, but we’re getting closer to finishing, and hopefully readers will find it worth it.

This author in endeavouring to complete this book ASAP.

Thank you again for your patience.

Steven John Ridd

 

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