Protest Win!

[alanajoli]

The news is out (via Publishers Weekly): Bloomsbury is changing the cover of Justine Larbalestier's Liar to stop misrepresenting the main character of the book. They're rejacketing the hardcover for the October release. The new jacket has not been decided on yet -- it may be a text version like the Australian jacket, or it may feature an African American girl's face.

As much as I know Larbalestier liked the text idea, at this point, I'm rooting for the second.

Congrats to Bloomsbury for actually listening to their audience on this one, and for (hopefully) learning from this episode. *keeping my fingers crossed that the publishing world has taken note*

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In other news, I've got a new blog post up at Flames Rising about not-quite paranormal romances, talking about books that push the boundaries of the genre (like Nalini Singh's (nalini_singh) Psy/Changeling series and Meljean Brook's "The Guardians") and those that go beyond what I say are the borders all together, like Richelle Mead's (blue_succubus) succubus series and Jeaniene Frost's (frost_light) "Night Huntress" books. Feel free to pop by and comment (and if you think I'm wrong, feel free to share -- I'm forming my ideas about genre as I go, and more fodder is *always* a good thing).

Comments

[boymonster.livejournal.com]

I find this interesting because despite the cover, the protagonist of my Dragonlance novel is in fact black. He's an Ergothian, one of a dark-skinned seafaring race, and the guy on the cover is a white guy. Now, I did tell Wizards that the character should look a lot like Vin Diesel, and not everybody knows Vin is mixed race, but come on.