"Odd where life takes us,"; muses Jill Franklin. After a very serious auto accident in 1990, she has written the Auto Accident Survivor's Guide for BC: Navigating the Medical-Legal-Insurance System (Stone Mountain Books, $27.95), a comprehensive look at how injured citizens can avoid further maltreatment by professionals and bureaucracies. When ICBC maintained Franklin was not entitled to compensation for lost income because she was a writer, the likes of Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Jane Rule and Daniel Francis successfully came to her defence. A rehab therapist then suggested she write about confronting the complexities and abuses of B.C. legal-insurance system. It took her seven years to complete the task. "The book isn't intended to be a substitute for professional advice,"; she cautions. "It should be used solely as a consumer advocacy guide."; Every eleven minutes someone in B.C. is injured or killed in an auto accident. 0-9736611-0-0