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Very grateful to see these publishers getting named and shamed. If this stuff is going to happen, and we all know it is, I'd rather see it happen with bright shining klieg lights instead of in darkness and secrecy. We should know that it's happening, and act accordingly.

Would love to see some agencies and writers putting their own ethics on the line, too, and saying they won't sell to these publishers, won't work with these people. It's not worth a better book deal or some fading slice of the already-shrunk pie. Again, I direct you to Mart Lavin in THE KEEPER:

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Just wrote my IPS rep about Europa, working on emails to my Simon/Harper/Hachette reps too. I'm curious about whether or not the @americanbookseller.bsky.social might be willing to get to organizing a more robust push-back to all of this, although I confess that I'm not going to hold my breath.

In the meantime, I'm looking to hear from the likes of R.F. Kuang and Barbara Kingsolver and @stephenking.bsky.social and @minjinlee.bsky.social and other major authors at HC/HBG/S&S. These are your publishers and they're going to be ruining your reputations by association very very soon.

for anybody looking for something of a template, should you want to send an email to a publisher — you can do it even if you're just a reader, they have contact forms on their websites!