Even Roxane Gay got dragged into the fray after retweeting Rosenfield's article, with some accusing her, simply by retweeting the piece, of stepping into a debate she has no business entering (Gay doesn't need a reason to retweet anything, but it's relevant that she has a YA book coming out in 2018). The backlash to the backlash was intense. Not surprisingly, the backlash was intense. " Rosenfield uses this, in addition to quotes from several anonymous sources, as evidence in her argument about "a growing dysfunction in the world of YA publishing." Rosenfeld argues that the buzz before The Black Witch's release was positive until an adult book blogger deemed it flagrantly and irresponsibly racist and made condemning the book a "clarion call for YA Twitter, which regularly identifies and denounces books for being problematic. Rosenfield focuses on the prepublication social-media reaction to The Black Witch, a debut YA fantasy novel by Laurie Forest about a teen girl living in a kind of caste-based society. Luckily, in this case, the article's headline and byline do most of the work: freelance writer and YA author Kat Rosenfield wrote a long piece titled "The Toxic Drama of YA: Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social media call-outs, draggings, and pile-ons – sometimes before anybody's even read them."
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