Author who shamed Washington, DC transit worker may lose book deal after backlash
May 12, 2019 at 22:41 PM EDT
A firestorm on social media has ensued after writer Natasha Tynes, who was on the verge of releasing her fist novel, criticized a black Metro employee for eating on the train on Twitter, writing that she reported the woman to transit officials. Now a publisher is postponing her book’s publication date and is considering canceling the book’s publication altogether.