Sherry Jones | Sherry Jones
Mar.22.2013
My guest today is Sherry Jones, an American journalist and the internationally best selling author of the controversial The Jewel of Medina and other historical fiction novels about women's power. She is also a speaker on issues including women's rights, free speech, and Islamophobia. Her novels...
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Jan.16.2012
Joe Konrath made $100,00 in three weeks selling his self-published books on Kindle.
He explains this phenomenal achievement in an article called "Reality Check," where one sentence stands out like the warning beacon on a highway patrol car.
"In the long run, except in the case of...
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Oct.11.2011
Am I ever glad that self-publishing wasn't easy back in 2005, when I was writing my first novel, "The Jewel of Medina." Why? Because of that elephant in the room: the aspect of self-publishing that no one talks about.
You can read about it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/red-room/sherry-...
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Apr.20.2011
I'm not sure how many of you remember the whole saga of Sherry Jones and her book, The Jewel of Medina. You might recall that her first publishing contract was canceled after her book about one of Mohammed's wives was called soft-core porn by a professor who was asked to do a blurb. Or maybe you...
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Feb.17.2011
The sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the revolution in Egypt is reprehensible. Her courage, for daring to make her story public, is laudable, drawing attention as it does to the contemptuous treatment of women in Egyptian society.
During the two weeks we spent in...
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Nov.24.2010
By Gina Misiroglu
In celebrating Thanksgiving week, it's been my pleasure to solicit articles for AOL News from Red Room authors on the subject of what they're thankful for. The variety of answers was astonishing, but the high quality reflects what I've come to expect (and relish) from this...
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Oct.31.2010
Here's the text of my speech at Portland State University Friday, Oct. 29:
As the author of two novels about the Prophet Muhammad and his controversial bride A’isha bint Abi Bakr, I know something about hate. I know something about fear. Some people hate me because they think I’m an Islamophobe....
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Sep.27.2010
Red Room is proud to join thousands of authors, readers, industry professionals, and others who are passionate about freedom of expression and inquiry in recognizing Banned Books Week,September 25th through October 2nd.
This year's observance comes at a particularly apt time for one Red Room...
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Dec.18.2009
The latest incident of self-censorship sounds like a bad joke -- a very bad one, at which no one, except the usual morons (Muslim extremists and Islamophobes) could possibly laugh.
The respected UK publication “Index on Censorship” revealed today that it has censored itself. Citing fears for the...
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Sep.23.2008
What a week! Thanks to our re-designed books and blogs pages, our letter asking our Members to update their profiles, and the widely read and elegantly written blog by Tim Wise, we saw a huge increase in readership and traffic. As if that weren’t enough, I also was able to help a record number of...
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