Excellent advice. I shall follow up my email with a pen-and-paper letter. Lois Ruby
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rachel Sietz" <rsi...@gmail.com> > To: "Lois Ruby" <loisr...@comcast.net> > Cc: "Arthur Kiron" <ki...@pobox.upenn.edu>, > hasaf...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu, "Amy Turim" <amytu...@rcn.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:50:32 AM > Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Simon and Schuster's horrible decision > I would encourage everyone disturbed and angered by this news to follow the > advice that was shared with me, courtesy of a friend of a friend, who's in > the publishing industry. Her advice was: > > WHAT TO DO: Write them letters, hard-copy ones that need a stamp and an > > envelope. At any major publishing house, the people at the bottom are > > mostly > > clever, thoughtful, progressive gals who don’t like this sort of thing any > > more than you do. They want to be able to go to their bosses’ bosses’ > > bosses > > with a massive stack of post and say, “Hey, this is the only reader > > correspondence we’re getting now,” because that wastes time, and the > > easiest > > way to piss off a publishing house is to waste their employees’ time. > > Wasting time = less time for making books. Remember also that everybody who > > gets into publishing does it because fundamentally they love to READ, they > > READ anything that is put in front of them, even the guys at the top who > > spend more time on the phone and at cocktail parties than working with text > > believe in words as a magical conduit of ideas, and if you write them a > > long > > heartfelt letter, they may scoff at it but they will read it, and if they > > have 1000 heartfelt letters a day, then sooner or later all those words > > will > > sink in. > > > This is not a plastics manufacturer, this is not a bank. This is a book > > company. Write to the people who are in the business of reading. > > > CONTACT INFO: > > > Corporate Headquarters > > > SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC. > > > 1230 Avenue of the Americas > > > New York, NY 10020 > > > PHONE: 212-698-7000 > > > And individual contacts here, best to address it to someone in particular: > > http://about.simonandschuster.biz/leadership/ > > > Normally, the best tactic is to write directly to a specific editor or the > > imprint, but Threshold is conservative, so they may not care. Still, > > perhaps > > try: > > > Threshold Editions > > > General Phone: 212-698-7006 > > > General Fax: 212-698-2858 > > > Jennifer Robinson > > > Vice President, Director of Publicity > > > gallerypublic...@simonandschuster.com > > > And make the point that the views of this author are not conservative > > views, > > they are fundamentally hateful and aggressive views which seek to undermine > > the rights of other citizens. He did, after all, help lead the hate mob > > against Leslie Jones that got her hacked - they should ask themselves > > whether that’s something with which they want their otherwise respectable > > work to be associated, especially since the published book may end up > > becoming associated with additional hate crimes should readers take it too > > literally. Surely they don’t want their book to start making news for being > > repeatedly found in the homes of every homegrown militant for the next 10 > > years. >
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