Author Archives: Nancy Deville

YOUR MISSION

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 27, 2009
The best way is to start is with a goal. Create a mission statement for yourself. My mission is to live a happy and fulfilled life, care about my body, the planet, and women's issues.
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FROM WHITE SLAVERY TO SEX TRAFFICKING

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 27, 2009
It was Kathleen Barry who taught me that the term “white slavery” had been abandoned for the more encompassing terms “trafficking in women and children,” and “sexual slavery.”
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VIRGINIA HOPKINS IS MY FAVORITE MEDICAL WRITER

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving wishes to all of you! I’m focused on writing fiction now, but I am still very interested in health and sharing what I learn with my readers. For Thanksgiving I’d like to give you the gift of medical writer Virginia Hopkins’s newsletter.
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ROBOTS DON’T MAKE YOUR STUFF, PEOPLE (SLAVES) DO

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 25, 2009
I consider myself a writer and I’m excited and working hard on the release of my novel, Karma. But design is a big part of who I am too and so every once in awhile I get drawn into a big design project and I virtually check out of life until it’s done.
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NO ONE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WHITE SLAVERY

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 25, 2009
In 1990, twenty-two years after I first heard about “white slavery” and thought to use it as a subject for writing my first novel, I tried to research the subject at the library. After being shocked and repulsed by the fact that the Library of Congress considered rape to be prostitution, I pressed on to see if there were any books on the subject.
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