Publisher: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2012
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Swords and sorcery
Rating: 3 1/2 pints of blood
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Today I don't have a real blog post. Really I just want to point everyone over to Kate Hart, where she's got some amazing infographics about YA cover art in 2011. Most important are the parts about depictions of minorities in cover art. (Hint: the numbers are dismal ( Read more... )

Oh, good! This is just exactly what the world needed: more covers with white people on them. Look, it doesn't matter that the character in the book is repeatedly described as having non-white features, we can just ignore that because we just don't have enough white people gracing the covers of novels. We'll shoehorn those invisible and oppressed ( Read more... )

Publisher: Grand Central, 2005
Genre: Horror
Sub-genre: Paranormal
Rating: 3 1/2 pints of blood
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Publisher: TOR, 2009
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Swords and sorcery
Rating: 3 pints of blood
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Series: Darkness Rising
Publisher: Doubleday, 2011
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Paranormal, Urban fantasy, YA
Rating: 3 pints of blood
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Series: The Flappers
Publisher: Ember, 2010
Genre: Romance
Sub-genre: Historical, YA
Rating: 4 pints of blood
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Series: Magic Under Glass
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2010
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Steampunk/gaslamp
Rating: 3 1/2 pints of blood
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Romance author Maisey Yates hsa been getting some interesing reader feedback about the cover of her most recent book, The Highest Price To Pay. Her publisher has been hearing about it, too, so let's take a look at this controversial cover to see what's getting people's feathers all ruffled, shall we?


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Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2008
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Comic book, Fairy tale, YA
Rating: 4 pints of blood
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