Soul Destruction: Unforgivable – Trailer
2013
In the Booth with Ruth – Helen Downing, Author
I’ve always enjoyed writing. I technically wrote my first novel in high school. I wrote it by longhand a chapter at a time and brought it to school. At first, there were only a handful of people reading it, but by the end, it felt like the whole school was waiting for me to finish. Even teachers read it. Pieces of it were lost or destroyed in the process and I never...
In the Booth with Ruth – Jacqueline S. Homan, Author
What inspired me to write in the first place is that I am a marginalized woman—from deep inter-generational poverty, and I am also an exited woman who escaped sexual exploitation as a homeless orphaned teen. Like so many other poor and marginalized exited women, my voice and real lived experiences are never heard. So I decided to do my best to change that, because words not only convey thoughts they create fact. Very few truly understand what it is to be shoved aside and erased and left for dead more than destitute exited women with nothing, no family, no avenue of legal remedy, and no support network—not even any welfare or medical care.
In the Booth with Ruth – Maria, Prostitution Survivor
When I was fifteen, I went to see my friend who’d moved in with her sister. I was thrown out of the house, and found myself in Piccadilly, Manchester where I met gypsies. The police put me in this hostel. There was about one hundred and ninety women in there. I was petrified. I didn’t know what to do. I ended up losing my virginity to a lorry driver for five...
In the Booth with Ruth – Col Bury, Author
Firstly, and this is important if you want to move forward as a writer, to increase the available time, I made sacrifices. I stopped playing pool and football, which I do miss, a lot, but it was the right decision. I also only now watch selected stuff on TV, like debates, documentaries, crime dramas and films, and, of course my beloved football.
In the Booth with Ruth – Danielle Bienvenu, Author
Oh wow. What a loaded question. Ha ha. I began writing when I was ten years old. It was mostly a series of short stories about pre-teen girls. The thing that inspired me to write the most was that I had difficulty telling people exactly how I felt, so I wrote down my feelings on paper. From there it took on a life of its own. Even my fiction novels are based on...
In the Booth with Ruth – Cathy Scott, Author & Journalist
I’m attracted to underdogs and giving them a voice. You can’t make up the stuff that happens in the criminal world. At the same time, I’m fascinated by unsolved crimes, including murder of Susan Berman, a mobster’s daughter, and rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls’ cases. It’s an absolute shame that those murders have not been solved...
In the Booth with Ruth – Magda M. Olchawska, Award Winning Film Director, Writer & Producer
In the Booth with Ruth – Siggy Buckley, Author
I was a college adjunct professor for teaching English (being a German citizen) for years. When my life took an unexpected turn, I started 'to take notes'. My then husband had opted out of the rat race for health and environmental reasons. He was a CPA, and made us emigrate from a professional German background to become organic farmers in the...
In the Booth with Ruth – Rosanne Dingli, Author
Inspiration is everywhere, Ruth, and yet it is elusive. I started writing so long ago – 1985 – that I rarely look back to those days except during interviews! My works found acceptance almost right away, so I had poems, articles, stories, and reviews published everywhere. I started writing longer fiction when I arrived in Perth in 1988 and landed a job as a...
In the Booth with Ruth – Jackie Summerford, Mother of Bonnie Barratt Murdered at 24 Years Old in the Sex Trade
Bonnie’s killer was a regular to all of them. He’d been rough with some of them and they’d stopped going to his flat. If there was the Merseyside model, he might have been reported to the police before. In May 2007, one of the girls was in his flat and from when she got in, she knew something was wrong with him; she didn’t feel right. She waited for him to go to the bathroom and she shot out of the street door. She never went back after...
In the Booth with Ruth – Andrew Boff, Conservative Member of the London Assembly
Some sex workers in London feel that when they report crimes, police focus on their crimes related to sex work – such as having a ‘brothel’ - over the crimes they originally reported against them. I have seen several cases like this in London. As a result of this belief in the sex industry, sex workers have told me they feel that they cannot safely report crime to the police...
In the Booth with Ruth – Tracey Edges, Author
I have always been a massive reader, from pre-school, and have always had the idea that I may write novels for a living. Creatively, I ended up going down the Fine Art route and I am an Exhibiting Artist. My work is currently hanging in the restaurant at the Grimsby Institute. I have always written, but never put it out for public consumption....
Guest blog on the Merseyside model for Coventry Women’s Voices
Ruth Jacobs 