Novelist’s book is cancelled after she acknowledges ‘review bombs’ of other writers

Corrain acknowledged using multiple pseudonyms to disparage such novels as Bethany Baptiste’s The Poisons We Drink and Molly X. Chang’s To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, a Del Rey book. — Photo by Fang-Wei Lin on Unsplash

NEW YORK: A debut author who used fake accounts to “review bomb” other writers on the influential online platform Goodreads has been dropped by her agent and had her book deal cancelled.

Cait Corrain’s novel Crown Of Starlight had been scheduled to come out next year through Del Rey, a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. Both Del Rey and Corrain’s agent, Becca Podos, announced this week that they would no longer work with Corrain, who had a two-book deal.