Category Archives: Sex Trafficking

MAJOR PUBLISHERS DON’T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING

I learned a lot from reading and rereading those letters. For a long time I thought I wasn’t destined to be a novelist, though I love writing fiction.
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READ TO LEARN

Karma has not even been published but so far I’ve heard basically the same comments about it, it’s disturbing, and it’s making people think. I’m not happy about giving people nightmares, but I am glad that people are thinking more about the woman and children who are victims today.
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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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NO ONE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WHITE SLAVERY

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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