In the second time this year, a YA novel has been put on hold at the request of the author due to social media blowback. More or less, people were offended and then a pile-on ensued. The authors decided the best course of action was to pull their debuts rather than "cause harm." The first novel was Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao, and now Kosoko Jackson's A Place for Wolves. You can read more about these authors Here and Here . What is this? Why would the writing community go from pushing the controversial envelope to pre-censuring novels? There is a lot at work here, but in my opinion, it boils down to policing minorities. Agents and Editors have been demanding diverse authors. It's no coincidence that a Chinese Immigrant and a Black Queer author were targeted. Zhao's book was a six-figure deal, Jackson was a well-established sensitivity reader (someone who looks for discrimination in books), these were people that many would be jealous of. Once the i
