Racefail
Apparently it isn't just limited to Paramount's The Last FailAirbender. Disney will be releasing Prince of Persia starring a white protagonist (Disney! YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT), and the publishing sphere is joining right on in.
Justine Larbalestier wrote a book called Liar, "a book about a compulsive (possibly pathological) liar who is determined to stop lying but finds it much harder than she supposed." According to the author, "I worked very hard to make sure that the fundamentals of who Micah is were believable: that she’s a girl, that she’s a teenager, that she’s black, that she’s USian." USian and all ensuing wank aside, here is what the cover of Liar looks like:
This is the single most boring cover I have ever seen in my life.
Way to undermine the author's work, Bloomsbury! And to make things better, this is an ongoing problem.
Kat, if they try to do this to Lionel in Glass, I am going to go apeshit. Just for the record.
Justine Larbalestier wrote a book called Liar, "a book about a compulsive (possibly pathological) liar who is determined to stop lying but finds it much harder than she supposed." According to the author, "I worked very hard to make sure that the fundamentals of who Micah is were believable: that she’s a girl, that she’s a teenager, that she’s black, that she’s USian." USian and all ensuing wank aside, here is what the cover of Liar looks like:
This is the single most boring cover I have ever seen in my life.
Way to undermine the author's work, Bloomsbury! And to make things better, this is an ongoing problem.
Kat, if they try to do this to Lionel in Glass, I am going to go apeshit. Just for the record.