NEW YORK — A debut writer who used pretend accounts to “assessment bomb” different writers on the influential on-line platform Goodreads has been dropped by her agent and had her guide deal canceled.
Cait Corrain’s novel “Crown of Starlight” had been scheduled to come back out subsequent yr via Del Rey, a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Random Home. Each Del Rey and Corrain’s agent, Becca Podos, introduced this week that they’d not work with Corrain, who had a two-book deal.
On Tuesday, days after the scandal broke on-line amongst Goodreads customers, the writer posted an apology on Instagram, blaming her actions partially on struggles with psychological well being and substance abuse.
“Let me be extraordinarily clear: whereas I may not have been sober or of sound thoughts throughout this time, I settle for duty for the ache and struggling I brought about,” she wrote, “and my delay in posting this is because of spending the previous few days offline whereas going via withdrawal as I sobered up sufficient to be brutally trustworthy with you and myself.”
Corrain acknowledged utilizing a number of pseudonyms to disparage such novels as Bethany Baptiste’s “The Poisons We Drink” and Molly X. Chang’s “To Gaze Upon Depraved Gods,” a Del Rey guide.
