Because he wasn't selling well enough beforehand...

[lagilman]

Jon Stewart's book banned in portions of Mississippi.

I need to get myself banned somewhere, that's what I need. I need for some high school teacher to decide that my book is too dangerous for impressionable teens to read...

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[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm mildly surprised it hasn't been challenged somewhere. All that magic is of Satan, y'know.

[lagilman]

Especially since a demon is a good guy, and the angels are all (seemingly) pricks...

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

The ban in Mississippi was reversed after they received calls and e-mails from across the country.

[lagilman]

and after it made national news, which was the important thing.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping. I mean, there's all this explicit sex and violence and demon worship, and then some idiot in Booklist or Library Journal or whatever starts saying I write YA stuff, but I can't get _banned_. Where's the justice? Where's the _money_?

[kradical.livejournal.com]

You're genre, so you're beneath the radar. You have to publish as mainstream and put all that stuff in there. I mean, everyone had conniptions over American Psycho, and all Ellis was doing was what horror novelists had been doing for decades. But he's Bret Easton friggin Ellis, so it's a big deal, whereas nobody blinks when Jack Ketcham or Adam-Troy Castro does it. *rolleyes*

[lagilman]

Oh, they noticed when Jack K did it, trust me. But even Ellis coulnd't make that kind of publicity/backlash into a true moneymaker. Religion or sex is one thing. Judicious violence, okay. Splatter for sake of shocking people doesn't really fly beyond a portion of the population, no matter how often you get into the news.

For which, personally, I think we should be thankful.

[a-vogon-poet.livejournal.com]

I heard about that!

I work at a library in Tennessee and a lot of our patrons are checking it out thinking that it was an actual patriotic history book instead of satire. I had an elderly woman come in brandishing the book above her head and yelling, "This thing isn't worth the paper its printed on!"

It's kinda scary in a funny way.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

...all this coming from a state that has the rebel flag embedded on its state flag and can still muster a thousand member klan rally...not really shocking. In fact, quite dissapointing that there wasn't a F 451 party.
-=Jeff=-