The bestselling author Roxane Gay found herself at odds with her publisher after she learned of its $250,000 book deal with the “alt-right” Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

In response, Gay, who authored Bad Feminist (Harper) and Difficult Women (Grove/Atlantic), announced last Wednesday that she is pulling her own book, How to Be Heard, from the publisher’s TED Book imprint. (Threshold Editions, another imprint of Simon & Schuster, will publish Yiannopoulos’s book.)

“I can’t in good conscience let them publish it while they also publish Milo,” Gay told BuzzFeed.

“Though TED Books and Threshold are vastly different imprints, they both reside within Simon & Schuster and so I guess I’m putting my money where my mouth is,” Gay said. “Milo has every right to say what he wants to say, however distasteful I and many others find it to be. He doesn’t have a right to have a book published by a major publisher but he has, in some bizarre twist of fate, been afforded that privilege. So be it. I’m not interested in doing business with a publisher willing to grant him that privilege.”

On Monday, Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy sent a letter to its authors that reads, “We do not support or condone, nor will we publish, hate speech. Not from our authors. Not in our books. Not in our imprints.”

Simon & Schuster will publish Yiannopoulos’s book, Dangerous, on March 14. Gay, meanwhile, has not yet found a publisher for her book.

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