Dear White Authors, Don’t Sign Books You Didn’t Write: How One Person Failed Unspoken Etiquette

Priya Sridhar
4 min readApr 22, 2020

Ir seems this year is pushing the envelope on what is and isn’t acceptable in publishing. Sometimes I get confused by why something is hurtful and other times it hits me immediately. Mackenzi Lee’s behavior has been unacceptable in one scenario: signing other people’s books and crossing out their names in some cases.

The latest trainwreck managed to happen while we’re in official and unofficial quarantines. Sometimes you cannot believe that someone actually managed to…

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Priya Sridhar

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.