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Note the Da Vinci Code hysteria and the insane amounts of Code memorabilia with entire sections of bookstores devoted to the marketing machine of one book. </p> <p>Most books, however, fall between the cracks. To get a book (fiction or not) to appear on the radar of a publisher, get a contract and navigate through the publishing maze and actually be in print is an almost insurmountable task in itself. But it's only then that we come to the hard part. To that dreaded and crucially important 3-month period, the one shot a book gets to establish its readership. If your book hasn't done so during that time, it gets the boot and its place on the shelf is taken over by the next hopeful. It's a tough world, the fight for space on a bookstore's shelf.</p> <p>Till now it was all conceptual for me. But now, we're here. I'm here. I've been published before but this is my first major bookstore outing and I am glad to be doing so not alone but with a group of amazing women. I contributed to a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060616163030/http://www.sealpress.com/">Seal Press </a>anthology entitled, "Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality." Now it's out finally. And shipping to bookstores as I write this.</p> <p>How long will we stay on the shelf? Will readers walking into a Borders or a Barnes and Noble pick it up, get absorbed in this variety of female voices from the Muslim world and decide to buy it? Or will they simply walk past and buy the latest decoder for the already mostly decoded Da Vinci?</p> <p>Of course some have already read it and they had this to say:</p> <blockquote>Voices of Resistance is a noisy and proud collection of Muslim women writing with boundless energy and enormous creativity from the United States and around the world. Sometimes it's angry. At other times it's introspective. But it's mostly about faith, faith that a world free from racism and sexism and defined by justice is not just possible but absolutely necessary.--Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor of English, City University of New York </blockquote> <p>And Dr. Amina Wadud, Professor of Islamic Studies - author of <i>Inside the Gender Jihad</i> says:<br/> <blockquote>"I loved it. It was fun, it was funny, it was profound, it was deep, it was frightening, it was awesome, it was an opening. I could NOT put it down.</blockquote></p> <p>Now it's the turn of the readers in the real world. Keep us on the shelf for more than three months. If we survive that we conquer the triple crown: getting the attention of a publisher, getting a contract, surviving past the three-month challenge.</p> <p>Okay, that was mostly facetious. But do read Voices of Resistance. 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Speak and be heard!</h2> <h3>Comment on this article or leave feedback for the author</h3></div> <div id="comments"> <div class="comment"><div class="cheader"><span class="cid"><a name="comment-13250">#1</a></span><br/> <span class="name">temporal</span><br/><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060616163030/http://desicritics.org/mt/mt-comments.php?mode=url&cid=13250">URL</a></span><br/><span class="date">June 12, 2006</span><br/><span class="time">03:19 PM</span></div><div class="cbody"><p>J:<br/> <br/> will let you know after i have read this<br/> <br/> and welcome back ..kahaan ghayab theeN?</p></div><div class="cfooter"></div></div><div class="comment"><div class="cheader"><span class="cid"><a name="comment-13260">#2</a></span><br/> <span class="name">Jawahara</span><br/><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060616163030/http://desicritics.org/mt/mt-comments.php?mode=url&cid=13260">URL</a></span><br/><span class="date">June 12, 2006</span><br/><span class="time">04:59 PM</span></div><div class="cbody"><p>Alas, t...work interferes too often with my life :-). 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