Roxane Gay pulls her forthcoming book from same publisher as Milo Yiannopoulos

Author Roxane Gay has decided not to have her book published by the same publisher as Milo Yiannopoulos.

The Bad Feminist writer, Roxanne Gay has decided to ditch Simon & Schuster as her forthcoming book’s publisher over a decision by another of their imprints to publish Milo Yiannopoulos’s forthcoming book, Dangerous, which is due out in March 2017.

How To Be Heard was due to be published by TED Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster in March 2018. Speaking to Buzzfeed News, Roxane said that she asked her agent, Maria Massie to “pull the project” last week saying that she couldn’t in “good conscience” let them publish the book, whilst they also had the rights to Milo’s book.

She said she was putting her “money where her mouth is”.

“I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation. I just couldn’t bring myself to turn the book in. My editor emailed me last week and I kept staring at that email in my inbox and finally over the weekend I asked my agent to pull the book.”

Simon & Schuster’s CEO claimed that Milo’s book would not contain hate speech.

The book has not found another publisher yet.