TERRY MCMILLAN TAKES A STAND

Comments really heated up after I wrote the blog about Terry McMillan's ex-husband's new book entitled BALANCING ACT. It's dumb obvious that Jonathan Plummer is exploiting the ongoing drama between he and Terry to make some dough.

Even Terry herself stopped by to add her two cents on her ex-husband's book and the state of black book publishing. Here's a snippet of her comments:

I thank many of your for your generous spirit, your kindness, intelligence but mostly for your support for not supporting this exploitative, reacist, sexist book. Simon & Schuster is as much to blame for insulting me and hoping to cash in by capitalizing on my good name for their own corporate gain. They have been waiting for me to speak out publicly against this book ever since they made false promises in their Summer 2007 boasting about how much of my behind the scenes scandalous divorce would be in this book, and then when I lashed out at them, they tried to recant, but too late for that.

Well Terry's definitely taking a stand, not just against Plummer's book, but against sectors of the publishing industry. Troy Johnson of AALBC.com recently posted an email that Terry McMillan wrote to Karen Hunter, Louise Burke, and Carolyn Reidy. Hunter is the coauthor of BALANCING ACT, Burke is the publisher of Pocket Books and Reidy is the president of Simon & Schuster, the house that published Plummer's book.

In the email letter, Terry lashes out at the proliferation of what she feels are degrading and trashy books (she mentions urban/ghetto lit)--including Plummer's. She was HOT!

You can read the entire email exchange here. Thanks to Troy for pointing me to the link.

What do you think of Terry's letter? And what do you think about the state of black book publishing in general?