Writer Title:

Robin Boyle-Laisure

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E-book Title:

Taken No Extra: Defend Your Kids In opposition to Traffickers and Cults

Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Writer: Bloomsbury

What’s your e book about?

Sensible ideas on discuss to your kids about human traffickers and cults, and it additionally supplies useful data for psychological well being professionals, academics, and regulation enforcement.

What impressed you to jot down your e book?

Once I was a university pupil, political activists aggressively recruited school college students.

Are you able to describe your writing course of? How did you get your e book written and the way lengthy did it take?

Thirty years earlier, I began attending conferences the harms of cults and began writing in regards to the regulation and the way it can assist defend survivors. Then the human trafficking trafficking statutes have been enacted in 2000. This e book was a end result of 30 years of writing and talking on the subject. It took 6 months to place a proposal collectively and draft chapters, and discover an agent.

What was your publishing course of like? How did you publish your e book and the way lengthy did it take?

My agent labored with me for a yr to get the proposal and develop the chapters excellent. Inside 3 months of her sending it out, I had a suggestion from Bloomsbury.

How do you hope your e book impacts the world?

I hope extra individuals learn the e book to study in regards to the hurt that cults and human traffickers could cause, and to assist forestall individuals from being susceptible. My favourite chapter title is – Elevating a Savvy Youngster.

Are there any individuals and/or books which have impressed you alongside your journey?

The group for which I’m a board member – the Worldwide Cultic Research Affiliation. It holds annual conferences is totally different components of the world. I’ve discovered a lot from legal professionals, psychological well being professionals, and survivors who’ve attended these conferences. The ICSA additionally publishes a tutorial journal and journal.

What’s subsequent for you?

I’m giving as many shows and podcast interviews as I can. I’m at the moment preparing for 2 tutorial conferences – one in Canada and one on the west coast of US.

What recommendation would you supply fellow authors who’re simply getting began?

Give attention to the WORK. Keep away from negativity. Plan to your writing hours, though they will not be the identical every single day. Consider writing as a pleasure exercise, not as a dread. For me, it’s cathartic, which is a subject of a chat I can be giving on-line in October.