She doesn’t even seem to realize the racist implications of what it means to knock down Angie Thomas to Number 2 and Nicola Yoon completely off the New York Times bestseller list. Her attitude hasn’t changed on other fronts either. She still wants to make her terrible deceit of a book into a film. In the year since Sarem was busted, she hasn’t apologized. And what’s more, it seems none of them explained how they could endorses a book that was so badly written. We don’t need any more pedestals falling. While there are disagreements to how Buffy has stood the test of time, that is just not cool. One of the former Buffy actresses formed the publishing company that published the book, and the rest of the cast as well as Chasez endorsed it on Twitter. The worst part has to be that Sarem got the Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast and JC Chasez of NSYNC involved. If you are going to knock The Hate U Give off the number one position, then your book should at least match it in terms of prose quality, story, and character development. It’s also not cool to do this fixing if you are just trying to get a movie deal. That’s not how it works teens and adults who read YA are smarter than that. Sarem and her publishers apparently thought that teens would readily accept a story with terrible prose, a cover stolen from another artist, and even a lack of research into how the Cirque du Soleil works. What’s more, the protagonist of this book isn’t even a teen. They agree that it’s an awful story, one written by someone who thinks that writing a Young Adult novel is easy. Jenny Trout and others have read and reviewed chapter by chapter. There are hundreds of books in the Young Adult literature category, as well as plenty of reviewers who have frames of reference. To add insult to injury, Sarem’s book isn’t even a decent read.

After a few hours of embarrassment, the Times removed Sarem’s book from the list. Rather, on the day, a group of people from the YA community-including Phil Stamper, Jeremy West, and others-investigated and found out that Lani and her publishing company had been buying multiple copies of her book Handbook for Mortals at stores that the New York Times used for their sample status, copies that didn’t even exist and thus there was no exchange of currency. On August 17, 2017, Lani Sarem tried to convince the world that she had written a Young Adult Literature bestseller that had eclipsed Angie Thomas’s wonderful The Hate U Give. Your reputation as an author or a reader is everything. On the other, sometimes one of those thousands of books gets the right attention for the wrong reason.

On one hand, thousands of new books enter the world this year, either via digital text or crisp, printed pages.

The book publishing world is fascinating.

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