Category: featured posts
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buy my book!
The publisher ran out of my book before it even came out. That means that the book sold around 1,000 copies before its official release day even arrived. This is a good thing, I keep reminding myself as I’m pushing the prepaid preorders out the door. Get your own personalized, signed copy! As of May…
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reading and signing events in wallace
I just wanted to spread the word on a few local reading and signing events coming up. My first event will be in the Wallace Brewing Company‘s tasting room on Bank Street, Friday, May 19 at 7 pm. Please join us for a reading, question and answer session, and signing/meet-and-greet. Plus, there will be delicious…
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*buy my book here!*
It’s finally here! My book, Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business Doing Pleasure, is now available! Order a personalized, signed copy for $25.00. Thank you for supporting my work!
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i wish i could have met dolores
Dolores’s story, like her identity, an invented persona she assumed for forty years is a mix of fact and fiction that became its own reality.
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reading at the wallace brewery—7:00 pm on jan 13, 2016
A week from today, I’ll be reading an excerpt from my work on the history of sex work in the Silver Valley! Please come join us at the Wallace Brewery (610 Bank St., Wallace, Idaho) on Wednesday, January 13, beginning at 7:00 pm. I’m actually the opening act for the Idaho-raised author, Keith Lee Morris,…
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provisional diagnosis: prostitution
“This young woman has had quite a career. […] This patient absolutely vows that she does want to change her life. She says she has never been satisfied with it. She doesn’t feel its right to take the money from some of these poor men who have been her customers. She is ashamed of her…
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about the shoshone county sheriff’s office files
“Definitely a screwball.” — Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office file #474 “Do not let Betty return until she understands she is going to have to behave herself.” — SCSO file #546 One of the items on my research to-do list: type up my hand-written research notes. Most of the work I did over the summer already made…
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meditations on coercion, common law, and a perfect world
— I went to a party last night and ended up having a great conversation that had me thinking about my research from the angle of common law or accepted custom. Used to be, in Idaho, if you lived with someone for ten years you were considered married to that person via “common law.” They…