Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Torn apart: the vicious war over young adult books

Torn apart: the vicious war over young adult books

arlier this month, the author and screenwriter Gareth Roberts announced that his story was being removed from a forthcoming Doctor Who anthology. Having been shown Roberts’s past tweets about transgender people, BBC Books said that his views “conflict with our values as a publisher”. At least one of the book’s other contributors, Susie Day, had promised to withdraw from the project if Roberts were included. “I raised my concerns, and said if he was in, I was out,” Day said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/15/torn-apart-the-vicious-war-over-young-adult-books?source=Snapzu

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