Posted on 09/17/2008 4:40:22 PM PDT by SmithL
Spokane, Wash. (AP) -- Sherry Jones knew it would be hard to get her first novel published. Getting "The Jewel of Medina" into bookstores was even harder.
After overcoming the formidable hurdles any new author faces, Jones was overjoyed to sell the book to Random House. Then Random House canceled its publication at the last minute for fear the historical novel about Aisha, child bride of the prophet Muhammad, would incite riots in the Muslim world.
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I wonder how he would have felt about “Funky cold Medina”.
“would incite riots in the Muslim world.”
Ok, so what’s the down side?
What does Random House suggest, we surrender to Muslims today?
I really don’t like what I’m seeing in the West these days. Britain has actually allow sharia courts to be set up there.
Rolling over is not a game I play.
The author should self publish.
By Debbie Schlussel
I’m stating the blindingly obvious, but this wouldn’t even be a story if the novel concerned Christianity, and the author wouldn’t have to explain her painstaking efforts to be “respectful” either. It wouldn’t even make the news, because no one would turn down a book mocking Christianity or showing it in the most scurrilous, blasphemous manner. It’s already been done, as a matter of fact-ie, “The Last Temptation Of Christ”. And I couldn’t begin to list the “art” mocking Christian symbols that has been defended by the godless left-including much at taxpayer expense.
But then we all know who will threaten to riot and behead people, and who won’t. The left burns me up making comparisons between Christian fundamentalists and Islam. In Islam, people who don’t believe it’s OK to kill the “infidel” are the exception-their Koran teaches it, for goodness sake. Mainstream Christianity teaches that you can’t make someone come to Christ, it must be a freely-chosen decision of the heart. Islam teaches, make them convert, or enslave or kill them.
These publishers don’t have a leg to stand on, using as an excuse that they don’t want to “offend” Muslims. Well, maybe they don’t, but not because of their great respect for them, but because of their fear.
WHAT DOESN’T INCITE RIOTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
I was told, years ago, “authors who self-publish have more ego and money than talent.”
“..we surrender to Muslims today?
I really don’t like what I’m seeing in the West these days.”
Sheesh, you’re kinda late with this observation, aren’t you? We have submitted to Islam ever since we allowed these barbarians into the country. Perhaps you have subscribed to the notion that Islam is a ROP.
They did.
“The author should self publish.”
Bigtime. Instead of 7% royalties, she’d be looking at about a 50% profit margin per book. IOW, she’d make as much off of one self-published book as seven published the old fashioned way. So even without the backing of a publisher, with the publicity she has already gained, she would do very well.
Traditional publishing is great for the already famous best-selling authors. For first timers, it's like trying to win a hole-in-one contest. Out of hundreds of new manuscripts sent to NYC, one may be published. And out of the new titles published annually, only one in twenty first-time authors exceeds his miserly rookie advance and ever sees a royalty check.
Don't fall for the old thinking. It's as obsolete as saying, “Drudge is a joke, he has no influence, because he's not published in a traditional print newspaper.”
Actually, I haven’t liked what I have been seeing for quite some time, but it is growing worse exponentially.
They sure did.
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