THEY CALLED ME WYATT, the first novel from @NatashaTynes, will be the first book to be published by REBELLER. https://bit.ly/rebellerwyatt
Scheduled to be published early last year, early reviews of THEY CALLED ME WYATT on GoodReads were positive, with readers hailing the “unique perspective” of Jordanian-American author @NatashaTynes as “engrossing” and “compelling.”
Before WYATT hit streets, Tynes tweeted a photo of a Metro employee eating on a train. This was snitching. It wasn’t, as critics claimed, racist.
And yet an outrage mob targeted her, and her book, for cancelation.
And yet an outrage mob targeted her, and her book, for cancelation.
Tynes’s novel was subjected to a sustained review-bombing campaign that led to almost 2,000 one-star ratings and nearly a thousand negative reviews, many of which were written by people who hadn’t read the book.
The fallout was immediate. Tynes’s distributor, @rarebirdlit, went out of its way to “cancel Tynes’s novel.” https://twitter.com/rarebirdlit/status/1127010177700519937
Her publisher, California Coldblood, did the same. https://twitter.com/CalifColdblood/status/1127259321572610049
As a lover of art, a producer of movies, and a publisher of books, @CINESTATE / @REBELLER CEO @DallasSonnier was disturbed by the chilling effect of this deluge of undeserved hate.
So, Dallas acquired the rights to THEY CALLED ME WYATT for @REBELLER and we will be republishing it.
For more on the controversy, and to pre-order the most controversial book that no one has actually read, click here: https://bit.ly/rebellerwyatt
For more on the controversy, and to pre-order the most controversial book that no one has actually read, click here: https://bit.ly/rebellerwyatt