Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Drastic Stand, National Pain, or Author's Freedom? Unpacking the Sophie Lark KSD Book Destruction

Sophie Lark KSD Controversy

It’s not every day a book publishing story makes you stop. Makes you really think. But a couple of days ago, news crossed my feed that did just that. A Ukrainian publishing house, KSD, made a dramatic decision. They wouldn't just stop selling books by romance author Sophie Lark. They would destroy a massive print run – some 30,000 copies, it seems – of her novel, "Brutal Prince."