Scandal of the Century
I’m a big reader, but sometimes the drama between authors is more interesting tha n the books they write. When I heard we could write about people being canceled, I had to sh ed light on one of my favorite author scandals: Xiran Jay Zhao vs Cait Corrain . Cait Corrain , Xiran Jay Zhao, and some other debut authors were all getting ready to publish in 2024. However, there had been a lot of one-star bombing on many of the non-white debut authors , meanwhile the only person getting five-star rated by these many accounts was the white author Corrain . Zhao noticed this pattern and deduced that Corrain had been making these fake accounts . W hen the other authors were told to “let it go” after trying to solve their issues pri vately , Corrain tried to act like she was a victim of the whole fake-account situation as well on Twitter . T hat’s when Zhao posted on Twitter about the situation ( without naming names ) and threatened that if there was no resolution in ...