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