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Originally Posted by ema1982
I have another name for you. Kosoko Jackson was pressured into cancelling his debut novel “A Place for Wolves” before it was even published because some random claimed it was Islamophobic. Turns out she was wrong, but that didn’t stop the Twitter mob.
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I mentioned Kosoko Jackson in post
#81. I don't doubt that Kosoko (and Alexandra) took Twitter too seriously and decided for their own reasons not to publish.
But then there are counter examples Laurie Forest and Amélie Wen Zhao. They faced the same amount of pressure from the same people. Yet they went ahead with publication and both seem to have found success.
How do you explain those two?
Kosoko didn't publish. And I feel bad for him. But he could have persevered. He also could have gotten off Twitter.
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Just last month, Alexandra Duncan was pressured into cancelling her book “Ember Days” because she, a white woman, dared to use Gullah culture as an inspiration.
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Have you ever read
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots? It's a book set in the Gullah culture of South Carolina written by a white woman. The book is nearly thirty years old and there's no outcry. Even now you go look at the reviews on Amazon and there's nothing like what you describe.
If the author decides to cancel their own book, that's on them. Perhaps we would all be much better off if Kosoko Jackson and Alexandra Duncan ignored the Twitter trolls and just proceeded with publication of their books.
Twitter seems like a big deal to people that spend a lot of time on Twitter. But if you stop checking, the world is a different place.