An author and self-described “social media maven” is being dropped by a publishing house after she tweeted a photo of a black transit worker eating on a train in Washington, DC, and alerting the woman’s supervisors.

Natasha Tynes, a social media strategist and communications officer for the World Bank Group in Washington, tweeted the photo Friday of a uniformed Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority worker to publicly shame the employee by saying her conduct was against well-known rules and regulations.

“This is unacceptable,” Tynes tweeted, according to a screenshot captured by the Washington Post. “Hope @wmata responds. When I asked the employee about this, her response was ‘worry about yourself.’”

Tynes later apologized, saying she was “truly sorry” for the offending tweet. Her account had been switched to private and her website was unavailable by early Saturday, less than 24 hours after her original message, the Washington Post reported.

Tynes’ Twitter account — which, at one time, boasted more than 8,000 followers — was no longer active as of Monday. She declined to discuss the controversy when reached for comment early Monday by The Post.

“I’m not talking to the media at this time,” the Jordanian American author wrote in an email.

But the retaliation online was swift, namely from the publishing house set to release Tynes’ debut novel, “They Called Me Wyatt.”

In a scathing statement, Rare Bird Books slammed the author’s “truly horrible” actions by trying to draw attention to the worker’s actions, which is banned on buses and trains throughout the sprawling transportation system.

“Black women face a constant barrage of this kind of inappropriate behavior directed toward them and a constant policing of their bodies,” Rare Bird Books said in a statement. “We think this is unacceptable and have no desire to be involved with anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to jeopardize a person’s safety and employment in this way.”

The publishing house said it was moving to “cancel” Tynes’ novel within its distribution network and called on the book’s publisher, California Coldbood, to mull other appropriate steps.

“We do not condone her actions and hope Natasha learns from this experience that black women feel the effects of systematic racism the most and that we have to be allies, not oppressors,” California Coldblood said in a statement. “As for the book’s publication: We’re halting all shipments from the warehouse and postponing the book’s publication date while we further discuss appropriate next steps to officially cancel the book’s publication.”

A message seeking comment from World Bank Group officials regarding the status of Tynes’ employment was not immediately returned. She heads the company’s social media program for its International Finance Corporation, according to her LinkedIn profile.

One Twitter user, meanwhile, noted the irony of Tynes’ initial tweet, saying that if the author had simply ignored the worker eating food, the resulting controversy never would’ve happened.

“She technically warned her,” the post read.

Metro officials did not respond to requests for comment on whether the employee was disciplined for her actions, according to the Washington Post. But the chief of staff for its workers union said the employee was taking a meal break while traveling between two assignments. No action had been taken against the woman as of Sunday and union officials “will not support any discipline,” the newspaper reported.