YABookgate

[SnarkySperg]

I just want to point out the existence of the Hazelwood High trilogy. It's 3 books about a group of black kids in high school. It was written in the 90s, which is probably part of why it isn't as politically charged.

Spoiler: A summary of the series (and why it's better than the Wokefests of today)

The first one, Tears of a Tiger, is about Andy Jackson, a 17yo who is driving drunk and it results in his car crashing and his best friend being killed. The book is about his grief and depression slowly getting worse until he eventually kills himself. There's a little bit at the end about how his friends grieve and what they'd say to him if he was still alive and if they'd known he felt that way.

The second book, Forged by Fire, is about one of his friends, and the abusive home he lives in. He has to protect his sister from their abusive stepfather (who is molesting his sister) and I think it ends with their house burning down and the stepfather dying. I think this one takes place during Tears of a Tiger.

The third book is Darkness Before Dawn, and actually takes place after ToaT, and focuses on Andy's girlfriend and how she copes with his death. There is a new track coach who seems to have a particular interest in her. Long story short, he grooms her and they start dating secretly. It turns out he's a rapist. He tries to rape her, but she escapes. Someone else presses charges and he gets 30 years in prison.

So it covers themes like rape, abuse, suicide, drug abuse and drunk driving in a realistic way while also not being a goddamn wokefest. I was assigned the first book for class in 9th grade and even though I didn't find them super relatable, I'm glad I read them. It's sort of like The Hate U Give only less politically charged and I don't recall there being a lot of 'HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW KIDS?' moments.

 

[Puddleduck]

edit: oops, the screenshots of examples don't seem to be showing, fixing now. Fixed

Another Twitstorm leading to a white author being harassed off the platform ...

Mackenzie Lee is a YA author who works in a book store. She had an idea where she'd do silly annotations and drawings on the title pages of purchased books upon request. Examples:

Spoiler: Examples

Enter stupid chink, Rin Chupeco!

Of course she just had to start blubbing on Twitter about it all, and despite the fact several authors had this happen, she decided to make it a race thing. I don't know how to embed tweets, so copypastefag…

...are authors who autograph books written by *other* authors actually a thing? Because I just saw this happen to my book, and the optics of a white author autographing a POC author’s book and then using that as promotion... doesn’t look good to me?

I was never told about this. The implication that a white author’s autograph on my book is more valuable than my own autograph in a book that *I* wrote? Do people know how expensive it is for me personally to sign my own books? It costs me $600 to be in the US to sign it. Why.

The kicker was I tried my best to help this author when she first started out.

This feels just like a slap in the face now.


I’m gonna say this before I turn in for the night. I will NOT sign any of my books already signed by Mackenzi Lee. I’ve gotten far too much shit from people who think my living in a “third world shithole” somehow devalues my writing. I will not take more of this white nonsense.

Rin Chupeco later claimed that backlash toward her led to a review bombing, which many or may not be true. Either way the book in question,Wicked As You Wish, has been getting 1/2/3 reviews since late last year, so even if she did get backlash reviews, all it did is balance out the 4/5 star shill reviews she undoubtably had before. There are a lot of reviews saying they couldn't finish her book, and all of the positive ones have race mentioned either in the tags or the review itself.

The facts that Lee had been a)doing this to white authors b)upon request and purchase was completely ignored, and one Twitter hatemob later and she has deleted her twitter ...

One thing to be thankful of is that the book store seem to be standing by Lee. A lot of their tweets in reply to the crybabies are basically "lol shut up the customers asked for it"

 

[Mola Ram]

One thing to be thankful of is that the book store seem to be standing by Lee. A lot of their tweets in reply to the crybabies are basically "lol shut up the customers asked for it"

Any links? Mackenzi seems to have been successfully hounded off Twitter.

 

[Puddleduck]

Any links? Mackenzi seems to have been successfully hounded off Twitter.

Oops, I knew I forgot something!

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/KingsEnglish/with_replies

Sadly these have all been deleted now (unless I fail at twitter?) and an apology has been posted. I may be projecting but I still feel like the apology has an air of "sorry you feel that way"

 

[Mola Ram]

Oops, I knew I forgot something!

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https://twitter.com/KingsEnglish/with_replies

Sadly these have all been deleted now (unless I fail at twitter?) and an apology has been posted. I may be projecting but I still feel like the apology has an air of "sorry you feel that way"

The fresh tweets are horribly disappointing. I expected less cuckery from a bookshop in Mormon country.

 

[Puddleduck]

The fresh tweets are horribly disappointing. I expected less cuckery from a bookshop in Mormon country.

I just hope Lee hasn't been fired or anything...

 

[Mola Ram]

I just hope Lee hasn't been fired or anything...

There are responses demanding to know if Lee was the one tweeting the "flippant" responses to the outrage -- actually, demanding to know if the rumors about it are true. As ever, the SJWs want blood and ruin to sate their disgusting hungers.

 

[Puddleduck]

There are responses demanding to know if Lee was the one tweeting the "flippant" responses to the outrage -- actually, demanding to know if the rumors about it are true. As ever, the SJWs want blood and ruin to sate their disgusting hungers.

Part of me wishes Rin and/or the situation was big enough to warrant its own thread (only in this section) with her name in the title. Identity obsessed cry bullies like Rin Chupeco absolutely deserve their google searches to be smeared.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I have to wonder what it's like to be one of these people. To have so few actual problems in your life that you fall to pieces because someone drew in a book somewhere. To have never experienced any actual oppression, so you think that it's the most heinous bigotry imaginable. Must be nice to have lived such a pampered life.

 

[Mola Ram]

I have to wonder what it's like to be one of these people. To have so few actual problems in your life that you fall to pieces because someone drew in a book somewhere. To have never experienced any actual oppression, so you think that it's the most heinous bigotry imaginable. Must be nice to have lived such a pampered life.

If someone cared enough about my writing to do a little mocking cartoon on the flyleaf, I'd be over the moon. What an entitled cunt.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

I have to wonder what it's like to be one of these people. To have so few actual problems in your life that you fall to pieces because someone drew in a book somewhere. To have never experienced any actual oppression, so you think that it's the most heinous bigotry imaginable. Must be nice to have lived such a pampered life.

And the really pathetic thing is that they think these little crusades are what give their lives purpose. I’m glad that most authors worth two shits are doing better things than bitching on Twitter.

 

[Billy "the Bot" Bobson]

I just want to point out the existence of the Hazelwood High trilogy. It's 3 books about a group of black kids in high school. It was written in the 90s, which is probably part of why it isn't as politically charged.

Spoiler: A summary of the series (and why it's better than the Wokefests of today)

The first one, Tears of a Tiger, is about Andy Jackson, a 17yo who is driving drunk and it results in his car crashing and his best friend being killed. The book is about his grief and depression slowly getting worse until he eventually kills himself. There's a little bit at the end about how his friends grieve and what they'd say to him if he was still alive and if they'd known he felt that way.

The second book, Forged by Fire, is about one of his friends, and the abusive home he lives in. He has to protect his sister from their abusive stepfather (who is molesting his sister) and I think it ends with their house burning down and the stepfather dying. I think this one takes place during Tears of a Tiger.

The third book is Darkness Before Dawn, and actually takes place after ToaT, and focuses on Andy's girlfriend and how she copes with his death. There is a new track coach who seems to have a particular interest in her. Long story short, he grooms her and they start dating secretly. It turns out he's a rapist. He tries to rape her, but she escapes. Someone else presses charges and he gets 30 years in prison.

So it covers themes like rape, abuse, suicide, drug abuse and drunk driving in a realistic way while also not being a goddamn wokefest. I was assigned the first book for class in 9th grade and even though I didn't find them super relatable, I'm glad I read them. It's sort of like The Hate U Give only less politically charged and I don't recall there being a lot of 'HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW KIDS?' moments.

I actually recall having to read Forged by Fire for an 8th grade project. I don't remember much, but I remember liking it alright, especially the part where

Spoiler

the MC of FbF shits on the mc of ToT, one of his teamates, for committing suicide over shit that was relatively nonsensical and melodramatic while he was dealing with the horrors of his abusive and child molesting step-father and druggie mom.

Never read the other books, but highly recommend for "woke" YA books.

On the other hand, I loathe Whale Talk and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; the former is incredibly preachy and ridiculous while the latter is like Hamilton but with obnoxious anime references.

 

[SnarkySperg]

Oops, I knew I forgot something!

Spoiler

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https://twitter.com/KingsEnglish/with_replies

Sadly these have all been deleted now (unless I fail at twitter?) and an apology has been posted. I may be projecting but I still feel like the apology has an air of "sorry you feel that way"

So basically they just cucked out? Ugh. Fuck that. I liked the passive-aggressiveness of the replies.

Also, quick question: why is this Rin person paying $600 to sign a book? If you're paying that much, fire your fucking publisher.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Disappointed to see they gave in. If there's anything I've learned about these sorts of people, it's that no apology will ever be good enough so once you've pissed them off you just need to ignore them and tell them to get fucked. They were never going to buy your product either way to begin with, nothing will be gained by groveling to them except you'll get them to keep on kicking you over progressively more and more trivial things.

 

[SnarkySperg]

Disappointed to see they gave in. If there's anything I've learned about these sorts of people, it's that no apology will ever be good enough so once you've pissed them off you just need to ignore them and tell them to get fucked. They were never going to buy your product either way to begin with, nothing will be gained by groveling to them except you'll get them to keep on kicking you over progressively more and more trivial things.

And you'll possibly take a hit to your reputation. The people who you want patronage from are ones who don't care. I had so much respect for them....until I clicked on the link. I would have been a willing patron. But not now. I don't respect cowards.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

The latest YA Twitter brouhaha:

https://twitter.com/nekuthebooklock/status/1254227203971309568

"The author at Yallfest who talked over a panel of queer and PoC authors as a moderator about how important the narrative of straight white males are is Lauren Myracle. The following transcript of the zoom panel has a rough translation of what was said. "

 

[Puddleduck]

Also, quick question: why is this Rin person paying $600 to sign a book? If you're paying that much, fire your fucking publisher.

I'm not certain but from what I gleaned from skimming her profile back when all this was going on, she lives somewhere in Asia, probably one of the countries where not only is it expensive to post things to/from the civilized world, but you also have to bribe the postman not to eat it.
Along with some retarded shit about being a brayve womynx of color in the publishing industry, probably.

 

[Puddleduck]

The latest YA Twitter brouhaha:

https://twitter.com/nekuthebooklock/status/1254227203971309568

"The author at Yallfest who talked over a panel of queer and PoC authors as a moderator about how important the narrative of straight white males are is Lauren Myracle. The following transcript of the zoom panel has a rough translation of what was said. "

This Lauren is right though. Nearly all kids books these days seem to have girls and/or POC on the cover.When I was of that reading age, it didn't matter so much because chances are the surface level traits would be more or less incidental. But kids know what's up, and a cover depicting one of the above could easily be dismissed as "girl shit" or "nigger shit". The industry should be trying to keep boys reading, not turn them away.

White working class boys are the only "group" who don't get specialized help within education, and if any was proposed it 'd be called "waycist". (I'm jus t going to ignore Milo's shit from a few years back)

 

[Dirty Mug]

I'm not certain but from what I gleaned from skimming her profile back when all this was going on, she lives somewhere in Asia, probably one of the countries where not only is it expensive to post things to/from the civilized world, but you also have to bribe the postman not to eat it.
Along with some exceptional shit about being a brayve womynx of color in the publishing industry, probably.

It's a flip. With a surname like that (Chupeco), she's also a rich Filipino with chink ancestry.

 

[Puddleduck]

It's a flip. With a surname like that (Chupeco), she's also a rich Filipino with chink ancestry.

Her previous behavior has shown she's a scumbag, so I'm not surprised.

I really wish this Yellow Becky crybully was threadworthy, but apart from getting a fellow author "cancelled" and possibly gauging people for signed books, she's pretty unremarkable...