Bloomsbury. Really? Again?As if one cover featuring a white girl when the story was about a girl with dark skin wasn't bad enough. You had to go and whitewash the cover of Jaclyn Dolamore's Magic Under Glass
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.I appreciate that you've done the right thing and responded to the public outcry* by ceasing to sell the book with the original cover, apologizing and creating a new cover. You did that last time, and it worked out well.
So next time, how about just doing the right thing the first time and creating a cover that reflects the story and the characters? And if you're queasy about putting a person of color on the cover, you could always take the easy way out and not put a person on the cover at all. Just stop it with the white girls on the cover of books about darker skinned girls. Ok?
I'm creating a "whitewashing" tag. Don't dare make me use it again.
...And Little, Brown, don't think you're not being watched. You are.
* Thanks to bookshelves of doom for rounding up all the posts!
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What I find interesting is that this cover is still on the author's website, with not a word about the controversy and the cover change.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought that Bloomsbury's design department would have learned something from Liar but it seems not. Or maybe the cost of cover change comes from the publicity budget?