Ask HN: My next project is guaranteed to be “attacked”. How should I prepare?
You ignore it and enjoy the free publicity. People who read the book, assuming it sheds light on these people, will figure it out.<p>The biggest issue I can see is review bombing, so you can try warning various platforms that it might be targeted, though most of them already have systems in place to try to prevent it or will ignore your pleas.<p>IMO, the only thing you can really do there is market your book in other ways, and maybe ask some bloggers to pick up the story if you do get publicly attacked. A lot of people will search a controversial subject and read blog posts about it to see what the issue is.  If some of those articles can convince them that the book or author are important and are being cancelled for any reason other than merit they&#x27;ll be more likely to check it out.