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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ella Creamer and Lucy Knight

Publisher drops author for using fake accounts to ‘review-bomb’ peers

Cait Corrain.
‘I’m sorrier than you’ll ever know’ … Cait Corrain. Photograph: Daphne Press

A writer has been dropped by her agent and publisher after she posted a slew of reviews from fake accounts on book-ranking site Goodreads.

Cait Corrain, whose book Crown of Starlight was due to be published in May next year, posted on X to apologise for her behaviour. “I boosted the rating of my book, bombed the ratings of several fellow debut authors, and left reviews that ranged from kind of mean to downright abusive,” she tweeted.

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