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Ruth's on Twitter
24 May 2009 by news
Ruth is now on Twitter.
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Ruth on the BBC World Service
24 May 2009 by news
Ruth has featured on the BBC World Service's The Strand talking about Sherlock Holmes.
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Amazon Bestseller charts
04 January 2009 by news
Unsafe Sex has stormed up the Amazon bestseller charts! On the first week of publication it was 149,000th best selling product. By 3rd January it was 49,000th best selling product. If you order a copy today you could help it reach the 1,000 mark. (Wouldn't that be exciting!)
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Sluts or studs?
04 January 2009 by ruth
I was telling a colleague who works in sexual health about my novel. And she started telling me about the lives of some of the sex workers who attend her clinic - male and female. I asked her if she thought that men tend to have a better time in the sex industry - and she said it was probably true. Women, she felt, were definitely more vulnerable and likely to be assaulted by clients and abused or exploited by pimps. Also - although she knew some women who made a profitable living out of working as high class escorts - she couldn't say that any of the women she came across, particularly enjoyed their work. They did it for financial reasons - and financial reasons only. It wasn't something they were particularly proud of - and they certainly didn't want their families, friends or acquaintances to know about it.
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Unsafe Sex published
04 January 2009 by news
Unsafe Sex was published in December 2008. It is available from Amazon and most good bookshop ordering systems. You can also try asking for it in your library (pretend you need it for research purposes).
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