When Naomi Wolf appeared at the Strand in Manhattan last month to promote her new book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love,” it might have seemed like your average book-tour event.

There were several dozen people in folding chairs, a softball Q. and A. by a friendly interviewer and mingling over cookies brought by the author. But one thing was missing: the new book.

A week earlier, her publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, had abruptly announced it was delaying “Outrages” because of questions about its accuracy, and taken the extreme step of recalling the first printing of 35,000 copies from retailers just five days before the book’s official publication date.

For the Strand event, Ms. Wolf had scrambled to ship in copies of the already-released British edition. And now , with the book still in limbo, she says she remains committed to bringing it to American readers, even if she has to publish it herself.