What A Difference A Cover Makes

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Publisher's Weekly broke the news the Bloomsbury has decided to change the cover for Justine Larbalestier's novel, Liar. Based on my previous post, Judging a Book By Its Cover, it's interesting that Bloomsbury invested money to change this book jacket and not keep the "whitewashed" cover. I must say that I'm surprised that they chose to go with a similar cover. I thought that they would just go with maybe an abstract cover without a cover model. Will this cover satisfy everyone? … [Read more...]

Judging a Book by Its Cover

As many of you know who read my blog, Liar by Justine Larbalestier is on my TBR list. When I read the jacketflap, I was all over it. Micah is a pathological liar. Did she kill her boyfriend? Was he even her boyfriend? These were the questions that popped in my mind and got me interested. So at this point, the cover art wasn't an issue. It wasn't until I read an excerpt off of Justine L.'s blog that the character described herself as black and having "nappy hair" that she wore close cropped … [Read more...]