Milo Yiannopoulos Strikes Quarter-Million Dollar Book Deal

"Social justice warriors should be scared — very scared."

12.29.2016

Be forewarned, social justice warriors. Controversial gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos has secured a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Hollywood Reporter reports in an exclusive.

"They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened," Yiannopoulos told THR. "Did it hurt Madonna being banned from MTV in the 1990s? Did all that negative press hurt Donald Trump's chances of winning the election?"

Yiannopoulos, whom THR calls a "hero" of the alt-right (although Milo himself rejects this label), was notoriously banned from Twitter after engaging in a social media spat with Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.

Threshold and Simon & Schuster did not comment on the financial details, nor did Milo, but THR reports that "people with knowledge of the situation" said that Yiannopoulos is getting a $250,000 advance for the autobiographical book.

"I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building — but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money," Yiannopoulos said.

Milo is also turning his "Dangerous Faggot Tour" of college campuses into a feature-length documentary film.

"Every line of attack the forces of political correctness try on me fails pathetically," he said. "I'm more powerful, more influential and more fabulous than ever before, and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream. Social justice warriors should be scared — very scared."