An Antiboycott for BLOOD HEIR
Part of an ongoing story.
Amelie Wen Zhao is a Young Adult author whose debut fantasy novel, Blood Heir, was set for a June release from a major publisher, as part of a three-book deal. It received rave preliminary reviews, and was the culmination of a lifelong dream of the authoress, an immegrant from communist China.
The book tasks place in a fantasy world reminiscent of the ancient Far East, where (as in all nonchristian culture, ancient or modern) the institution of slavery is a daily reality.
It seems the profressionally and perpetually outraged NPCs targeted this young leftwing authoress for daring to portray a type of slavery that was not exclusively dark-skinned people enslaved by white-skinned people for work on tobacco plantations.
It was cultural appropriation, or racism, or something.
Terrified at being the subject of a Two Minute Hate, young Miss Zhou pulled the book, and surrendered her lifelong dream.
I had heard that the publisher reluctantly agreed with her decision.
Make no mistake: Zhou was an is a Leftist, who insults Trump apparently as automatically as a civilized person blessing someone who sneezes. Her own turned on her.
Nonetheless, It would be a significant guesture on the part of civilized people, and a humiliation to the barbarians, if we showed her, and the world, that Trump supporters, Christians, and civilized people also support fairplay over faceless hate-mobs, freedom over fear, truth over libel.
Here are the penguin email addresses if people want to contact the publisher and object to the decision to pull the book:
– Email: customerservice@penguinrandomhouse.com(global) AND penguinrandomhouse@penguinrandomhouse.com
– Email your countries specific Penguin Random House publishing sector (bottom of this website has country specific links): https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/
– Submit via their customer service form here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ab…
– Submit via their business service form here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.biz/abo…
– Post on their Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. about your disappointment @PenguinRandom
Myself, I know nothing about the book or the authoress aside from what I have recited here. But I am perfectly willing to buy all three in hardback, merely to tweak the noses of these vicious, inhuman, dream-destroying bullies.
Put your money where your mouth is, all ye men of good will. Let’s make this backfire.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
