My first thought was sabotage. The printing industry is nearly entirely Leftist, and significantly so.
Yeah, I know a young woman who is a novelist. She tried to write sort of traditional Sci Fi and got nowhere. She wrote a book about homosexual vampires and it hit #2 on the UK Times bestseller list.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-book-eaters-sunyi-dean/1139985411