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Scandal Rocks Publishing as Debut Author Is Linked To Fake Goodreads Accounts That Review Bombed Peers (www.themarysue.com)

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[–] sculd 7 points 11 months ago

Response from some of the authors targeted by Corrain: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cait-corrain-review-bombing-scandal-has-hurt-writers-of-color-exposed-racism-in-publishing-industry

Readers who like a certain genre tend to read multiple books from the game genre, so these authors should be more like friends instead of competitors, which makes this betrayal harder to understand.