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- A first-time author has admitted to creating fake Goodreads accounts to take down her competition.
- Cait Corrain been dropped by her publisher and literary agent.
- "It was very easy to tie the accounts to Cait because clicking into their profiles showed they upvoted one particular book," said one author.
A fantasy author has lost her book deal after being accused of — and admitting to — using the book-review platform Goodreads to try to take down her competition via review bombing.
Review bombing is the practice of manipulating the ratings of a product or service through inauthentic, negative reviews.
On Tuesday, the author, Cait Corrain, apologized to the people she targeted.