West told Publishers Weekly: “As soon as I saw the list yesterday, it didn’t make sense to me. An IMDb page for an adaption of the novel lists the author, Sarem (who is also an actor and music act manager), as lined up to play the lead character. Another bookshop shared similar information with West, while Publishers Weekly reported that a shop outside Las Vegas had a customer who ordered 87 copies after learning it was an NYT-reporting shop.Įntertainment website Pajiba, which first reported on the controversy, speculated that “someone, whoever they may be, hopes to use the ‘#1 New York Times bestselling novel’ moniker as a launching pad to a studio deal”. Stamper shared messages he had received from bookshop staff who said they had been contacted to see if their store was an NYT-reporting shop – the paper’s lists are collated from information supplied by a confidential group of stores – before a bulk order was placed. Stamper and other YA writers, including Jeremy West, began to investigate.
“You shouldn’t be able to buy your way on to the list. Sells ~5,000 in the first week? Ok,” Stamper wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “A book that no one has heard of except for the two niche blogs that covered the GN press release. But author Phil Stamper began to ask questions, pointing out that the book’s publisher was only launched a month earlier and that the novel was listed as out of stock on Amazon.
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