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/ <http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fabout.simonandschuster.biz%252Fleadership%252F%26h%3DwAQFKndqK&t=YWFhZmIwMGQ5MzdjYTMzMjBjMDczNTE2YjU5ZjdiNDAwNjhjMzA4NyxMZlJjWUZjSw%3D%3D&b=t%3AW6nRpT5nZ5AKfWWLpuPUyw&p=http%3A%2F%2Ftikkunolamorgtfo.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F155147754761%2Fcassandrashipsit-thisiseverydayracism-remember&m=1> 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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