How to ditch your cover
It was never an issue in Australia. Justine Larbalestier’s book, Liar, was published with this neutral cover. No preconceptions here.
But it was an altogether different story in the US, where the cover turned out like this, which is well, frankly, a lie. And racist.
The publishers have relented, and in October, it becomes this:
This story isn’t new. It’s been going on for weeks and we have tweeted it and mentioned it before. But the fact that it is still going on, now in the mainstream press rather than the blogosphere, makes it worth noting again here.
Follow the story, first with the author’s blogged unhappiness and apparent powerlessness, then the good news and finally some of the mainstream commentary here, here, here and here.
It’s an important victory and one in which the blogging world of children’s and adolescent literature played no small part in achieving.
