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I write for a living. My literary agent is Anne McDermid of @CookeMcDermid. My film/TV agent is Michelle Kroes of CAA. omaronstrike@gmail.com

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    1. Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

      I don’t know if the writing world needs another American Dirt thread, but I got conned by the folks behind this book’s marketing and I’m mad about it, so for whatever it’s worth, here’s some details about how this thing was presented to the world…

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    2. Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

      A couple of months ago, BookPage asked me to review American Dirt. The advance copy arrived with a letter from the publisher, which in hindsight is honestly one of the more disingenuous things I’ve ever read.

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      Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

      Through very careful language, the marketing copy for American Dirt implied that the author not only had a personal connection to the material, but that her husband himself had an even more direct connection, being an illegal immigrant himself.

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        2. Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

          BookPage has a no-negative-review policy. So I found the one thing the book did well – it’s fast-paced – and wrote about that. A few weeks later, I learned the marketing copy was all bullshit. There is no personal connection. The author’s husband immigrated here from… Ireland.

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        3. Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

          When I found out, I rewrote the review. The folks at BookPage had a meeting of their own, and decided they too had been taken for a ride. But they wouldn’t run my new review, because it violates their no-negative-review policy.

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        4. Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

          As a result, they’ve wiped any trace of the original review from their web site. A somewhat forgettable book that in any other year would have come and gone is now the subject of attention that isn’t being given to countless authors who deserve it more.

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        5. Omar El Akkad‏Verified account @omarelakkad 28 Jan 2020

          And all of this because some publisher decided this book had to be a phenomenon at any cost. I hope these folks are aware of how much long-term damage they’ve done, and I’m sorry I helped them do it.

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        1. Tracy Baim‏ @TracyBaimWCMG 28 Jan 2020
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          (Undocumented)

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        2. azteclady‏ @HerHandsMyHands 28 Jan 2020
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          Please use the word "undocumented" instead. No human being, anywhere, is illegal. Also: her husband overstayed a visa, which is an altogether different thing than crossing a border without it.

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        1. Esta Montano‏ @EstaMontano 29 Jan 2020
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          They used that language? “Illegal immigrant”? Please tell me no.

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        1. Carmen Vela‏ @madremorena 30 Jan 2020
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          No human being is illegal.

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        1. Allen‏ @SmilesTopher 31 Jan 2020
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          So, then, you're saying the author creatively duped the whole industry?

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