{"id":1689,"date":"2019-02-04T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2019-02-03T13:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:58:52","slug":"citing-social-media-controversy-debut-author-cancels-publication-of-ya-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Citing Social Media Controversy, Debut Author Cancels Publication of YA Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short, while in the review copy\/arc phase debut YA author\u00a0Am\u00e9lie Wen Zhao first delayed, then cancelled the publication of her first novel (which was a major deal&#8211;that is one described as gaining an advance of at least $500,000) <em>Blood Heir<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/60032-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1690 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/60032-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/60032-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/60032-1-74x49.jpg 74w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/60032-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/childrens\/childrens-industry-news\/article\/79159-citing-social-media-controversy-debut-author-delays-publication-of-ya-novel.html?fbclid=IwAR28mrKa1ZKhUawi---CovDIb35sBFdg6B3OU4WQTstAnDSTKkRX92OnBE4\">Publishers Weekly covers the controversy here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/279806\/how-a-twitter-mob-destroyed-a-young-immigrant-female-authors-budding-career\">And Tablet Magazine updates it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, not being very active on the YA Twitter community, I&#8217;m a little sad, because it sounds like an interesting book I would have liked to read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short, while in the review copy\/arc phase debut YA author\u00a0Am\u00e9lie Wen Zhao first delayed, then cancelled the publication of her first novel (which was a major deal&#8211;that is one described as gaining an advance of at least $500,000) Blood Heir.\u00a0 Publishers Weekly covers the controversy here. And Tablet Magazine updates it here. Personally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83,64,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news","category-fantasy","category-ya-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-rf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}