Cover Matters: Silver Phoenix

by on 1 Jul 2010 in Publishing

Recently there have been rumblings in the blogosphere about the re-jacketing of Cindy Pon‘s book SILVER PHOENIX that have been brought to my attention. Reactions have been mixed, from outrage to support, with many bloggers pointing to the re-jacketing as yet another example of publishing cover racefail (the first being Justine Larbalestier’s LIAR and the [...]

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Pinging Recognition: Faces on Covers

by on 12 Mar 2010 in Publishing

Apologies for not blogging yesterday–I had a horrible, horrible migraine and went home early to sleep for 14 hours. Sleep, best cure for a migraine! Anyway, this is the last day of JJ-Blog-About-Race Week! Previous posts include: Race in Fiction Week I’m Korean and I’m Okay: A little background information on me. Representing Race in [...]

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Judge A Book By Its Cover

by on 19 Jan 2010 in Publishing

Bloomsbury seems to be on everyone’s shit list right now, owing to the second time they’ve white-washed a cover. The first fiasco involved Justine Larbalestier‘s very excellent LIAR, which was thankfully rectified. But as Aja Romano pointed out, Larbalestier is an established author with an established online following–enough to warrant a change in cover. Poor [...]

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Non-White Covers Don't Sell

by on 24 Jul 2009 in Publishing

All over the blogosphere and Twitterverse, there are opinions about Justine Larbalestier‘s book cover for her latest novel LIAR. LIAR is about a multiracial girl named Micah (her father is part black) who is a compulsive (possibly pathological) liar, but the cover features a white girl. Now, I read the ARC of LIAR back in [...]

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