Ingerman is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management. She has written several popular books on stress, the self, and shamanism. Sherry Jones now describes herself as the “World’s Most Dangerous Author,” due to the controversy surrounding her debut novel. Originally slated to be published by Random House last year, the now-infamous The Jewel of Medina, was indefinitely postponed over warnings that the book would be “more dangerous than the Satanic Verses.” Her rights were since picked up by Beaufort Books, and the book will finally be released in October. (For more information about the controversy, check out the Wikipedia entry.)