Category Archives: Modern Slavery

PROSTITUTION TO PAY FOR COLLEGE

I’ve read quite a bit about young women working for escort services to pay for college. Some of them do it for money, others for money and perceived glamor. There are more than a few problems with this choice as I see it from my vantage point of a 59-year old woman. First, there is [...]
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SEX TRAFFICKING IN INDIA

As you know, my story takes place in India, though all countries of the world engage in sex trafficking. In India it’s not just brothel owners who profit from sex trading. Indian farmers selling their wives to unscrupulous money lenders who take advantage of the poverty and desperation.
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WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST

I sometimes wonder if I should have given up on this subject years ago when I realized how disturbing it is to most people. Of course I would like to be successful as a novelist but I think the most important goal of any storyteller is to make an impact in society in some way.
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FROM WHITE SLAVERY TO SEX TRAFFICKING

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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ROBOTS DON’T MAKE YOUR STUFF, PEOPLE (SLAVES) DO

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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