{"id":1216296,"date":"2022-01-14T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216296"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:04:46","slug":"worship-leader-says-harper-collins-canceled-his-book-over-his-political-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/worship-leader-says-harper-collins-canceled-his-book-over-his-political-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship Leader Says Harper Collins Canceled His Book Over His Political Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworship-leader-says-harper-collins-canceled-his-book-over-his-political-views%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Bethel Church worship leader Sean Feucht is no shrinking violet when it comes to expressing his political views. In 2020, Feucht ran for congress as a Republican in California, and when he didn\u2019t win, he founded the \u201cLet Us Worship\u201d movement \u2014 a series of concerts in more than 130 cities across the country to protest the government\u2019s COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s hosted President Donald Trump at his events, which draw tens of thousands, and publicly prayed over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He\u2019s even been known to go toe-to-toe with other Christian luminaries, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanfeucht\/status\/1425208782104055809?s=20\">firing back<\/a> at Trump critic Beth Moore when she equated following Jesus with wearing a mask and getting vaccinated. \u201cI believe Jesus stepped INTO people\u2019s sickness, fear &amp; heartache bringing healing &amp; hope. That\u2019s truly loving your neighbor. Not hiding in fear &amp; self-preservation,\u201d he replied to her.<\/p>\n<p>But an outspoken platform like Feucht\u2019s is usually a feature not a bug in the non-fiction publishing world that relies on name recognition and big personalities to make sales. And publisher Harper Collins was happy to draw on those qualities when it offered him a deal for a motivational book tentatively titled, \u201cFear Not,\u201d that would offer advice on how to live with boldness and courage in an age of fear. Until, that is, two woke, low-level staffers in the marketing department went to his editor in tears, saying they would find it traumatic to work on such a conservative figure\u2019s campaign, according to Feucht.<\/p>\n<p>The editor called Feucht to tell him Harper Collins was backing out of the deal. \u201cHe told me the two women in marketing said, \u2018We\u2019re not going to market this book,\u2019 you know, because of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, it would be too upsetting,\u201d Feucht tells The Daily Wire. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know if they threatened to quit, but they basically just were whining and complaining.\u201d In end, Feucht says, the editor told him they couldn\u2019t do his book because it wouldn\u2019t have a marketing team behind it. He hung up from the conversation astonished.<\/p>\n<p>A Harper Collins spokesman told The Daily Wire they had no agreement with Feucht, but he shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanfeucht\/status\/1481782774130307072?s=20\">copy<\/a> of their offer letter on Twitter in which a company editor outlines every pertinent deal for the book\u2019s production. Feucht claims he and the company had a signed Deal Memo, telling the Christian Post, \u201cThe book had gone to auction, and there were six different offers. I accepted the offer from Harper Collins. The signed Deal Memo includes an agreement on terms such as the advance, royalties, discount rates, subsidiary rights, and book buybacks. Just within the last several days, we were working with them on the title, book cover and manuscript development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feucht wonders why it had to happen at all \u2014 why couldn\u2019t the young women in marketing just do the jobs they\u2019re paid to do? Harper Collins is the second largest editor in the world, he reflects, and it\u2019s key business decisions appear to hinge on the emotional stability of young women with only a few years of professional experience. Baffled, he asked the editor, \u201cDoesn\u2019t the marketing team work for you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pattern that\u2019s been playing in major industries in the last few years and Feucht can\u2019t help but wonder how strategic it is. \u201cI mean, they\u2019re letting like woke Gen Z staffers infiltrate the system and cancel whoever they want, right? That is outrageous,\u201d he says. \u201cI have employees who work for me and they don\u2019t agree with everything that I do, ever deal I make. But it\u2019s not up to them. They work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since his book cancellation, other Harper Collins employees have quietly reached out to him to offer the cold comfort of revealing that he\u2019s not alone and that woke staff have changed the company\u2019s internal culture so that often pursuing a book from a conservative author isn\u2019t worth an editor\u2019s headache. But, Feucht points out, the fear of political voices only goes one way. &nbsp;\u201cI mean they have some authors that are like way on the left, like super fringe. Why are they okay? I don\u2019t really know. I mean, it leaves a lot to question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feucht says he plans to look for another publisher, and do what he\u2019s counseled so many other people who\u2019ve faced cancel culture to do \u2014 press on and look for opportunities to create new systems that don\u2019t suppress speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually this kind of thing will destroy the traditional route [in publishing],\u201d he says, and it will create opportunities for those bold enough to seize them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancel culture has created a whole shift in the industry,\u201d he explains. And he has experience circumventing systems. He\u2019s been through this before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur digital distributor tried to cancel us on an album,\u201d he reveals. \u201cIt backfired. The album was released. It was about a year ago and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bethel Church worship leader Sean Feucht is no shrinking violet when it comes to expressing his political views. 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