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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
I doubt they'd take the risk due to outcry and not risking loss of rep/money.
We all remember Milo Yiannopoulos was dropped due to outcry from Twitter and liberal media from his six-book deal
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Give it some time on Linda, outrage tends to burn out and that she’s written 24ish books with several bestsellers means she’s got a fan base. And for what it’s worth Amazon has a untitled book from her for this year, it’s possible it’s a incorrect listing or a hanger on from her last book.
And you really want to rally behind Milo Yiannopoulos as an example? Another grossly problematic person, he also went ahead and self published though apparently his book did not do particularly well. Perhaps if S&S hadn’t dropped him he’d have sold more, but in any case he’s hardly cancelled.
As for Natasha Tynes I’d be surprised if she won. Publisher’s aren’t stupid and contracts with them will usually have an escape clause for them to turn around and cancel the book for some nebulous reason the author would never be able to defeat. As for the defamation she’d have to prove definitively that it was the publisher’s tweet that caused the backlash against her and that their intent was malicious. Which doesn’t seem likely when it was her tweet that sparked the outrage. It’s further complicated because she was writing for a group author not herself.