What A Difference A Cover Makes

August 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
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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...]

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Judging a Book by Its Cover

July 23, 2009 Leave a Comment

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...]

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It’s 2009 Right?

May 24, 2009 Read Comments

I was reading Justine Larbalestier’s post about segregated proms in Montgomery County Georgia. I remember an article about segregated proms in another Georgia town a few years ago. It even inspired the Lifetime movie For One Night starring Raven-Symone. For me, it sparked a story idea but I thought it would be historical fiction because surely by the time I wrote the novel, high schools in Georgia would not be having segregated proms. How wrong I was. Montgomery County High School is … [Read more...]

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Is the CSK Still Necessary?

May 17, 2009 Leave a Comment

I just finished reading an interesting blog post from Editorial Anonymous (EA), where he/she states that the Coretta Scott King (CSK) Award may no longer be necessary. The CSK award is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and honors African-American authors. EA states this in the post: Giving an award for creating art about the experience of race is a wonderful thing. But giving an award for creating art and being a particular race? That's racism in action. It’s interesting that … [Read more...]

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