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[moon_custafer]

 I guess my informal New Year's resolution is to try to stand up for causes I agree with, as least so far as a person can with limited income and a spouse who can't leave the house most days.

I'm among those irritated by Simon and Schuster giving a book-deal to arch-troll Milo Yiannopoulos, and thisfinecrew  makes the case that the best way to get a publisher's attention is snail-mail.

Simon & Schuster is already pitching the deal as a blow for freedom of speech, and in any case I often find myself loathe to base an argument on political opinion or even ethics, as the other person may not share mine or even have any. Instead I've decided to try the suggestion that giving a large advance to someone whose previous published work is full of plagiarized lines might not have been the wisest move, and that at the very least the editors are going to have to earn every penny of their paycheques. My printer isn't working, so I hand-wrote it, but that will probably add an extra bit of passive-aggression to the missive. 

To to be mailed out tomorrow when the post offices open, I guess.

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[dewline]

I remember this: Simon and Schuster also publish Star Trek novels, which are as diametrically opposed in editorial terms to the Gamergate/Breitbart jerk as you can get without going politically off the other deep end.

I've already e-mailed a note reminding them of what they're also doing, and I plan to keep supporting the Trek books. Because those are better than the jerk under discussion.

(What? Me refer to him by his name? No.)

[moon_custafer]

Yes, thisfinecrew mentioned S&S's variety of imprints and that a boucott would end up harming writers at the other end of he spectrum; which was one reason I went with the "never mind what else he's done, he's a plagiarist" angle.