In March, Zhao called her editor at Delacorte Press and told her that she wanted to move forward with the novel after all. She made some revisions, and “Blood Heir” is now scheduled to be released in November. When the controversy over “Blood Heir” erupted, battle lines were quickly drawn within the close-knit children’s publishing community. Keira Drake’s fantasy novel, “The Continent,” was delayed by her publisher and rewritten after readers blasted it as “racist trash” and “offensive” in early reviews. And in February, Kosoko Jackson pulled his young adult debut novel, “A Place for Wolves,” a story set in the 1990s during the Kosovo war that features two gay American teenagers.

Source: International New York Times April 29, 2019 17:37 UTC