I was about to pick up house in the Cerulean sea and a few of TJ klunes other books that I own and of course he’s problematic. It has to do with the 60s scoop that involved Native Americans and what horrible things happen to them. My father being a part of that as a Native American himself and a young teen when it happened. He basically used a traumatic time in history as inspiration for his story house in the Cerulean sea. Which is not okay and he’s coming out with a second book to that one next year. I don’t think the publishers should be going forward with this next book but of course they will cuz it’s going to make them money. Should I now tell people the talk about this book but he’s problematic and after that let them do their own research or not say anything?
I actually did not like this book very much (it was too twee for my taste, and felt like a weird mashup of a children’s and an adult-targeted book), but this is a ridiculous complaint. If you’re finding that all the authors you like are “problematic,” my sense from this post is that you’re probably looking very hard for reasons to cancel them and creating your own sense of disappointment. It read like more of an allegory for queerness than anything else; if it was inspired by this history, the final product is so far removed from it that I would never have guessed. In any case, it sounds like he’s been forthright and apologetic to the extent that he even needs to be. I’ll third the suggestion that you read this post and think about how making accusatory posts like this can be harmful to authors’ mental health.
The reason I’m finding authors problematic is because a majority of people are telling me they are and the reasons why like the incident with TJ klune I didn’t know he was problematic until someone pointed it out and gave me the resources to do my research and find out for myself why and thank you I have checked out the post and I have seen what the person had to say and it gave me a lot to think about