Dear Bloomsbury (and anybody else in publishing who didn't get this memo):
Let's just put it out there right now:
When your protagonist is a mixed race child with curly hair and dark skin, putting a WHITE CHILD on the cover to sell copies? NOT FUCKING OKAY.The message you are sending to other mixed race kids and minorities? NOT OKAY
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This is precisely why I would love to go into publishing. So shit like this or Twilight doesn't happen.
I want to read this book too. How the hell are you supposed to support the author who wrote something we want to read and not dumbass publishers?
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If I rip the cover off *before*, the author doesn't get paid at all. Curses.
ETA: musesfool very helpfully suggested buying the Australian version, which will obviously be a few pennies more but not result in me stroking out when I read it, so, you know I think I'll do that.
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musesfool's idea is a very awesome idea.
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It is also irksome that the publisher won't listen to the author. Where is the loyalty, eh? And...lastly...shame on whoever designed that cover being complicit with the race switch. Shame!
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Excuse me I must go decompress by finally listening to [info]thisisbone and [info]thefourthvine and watching Fast & Furious.
I admit, I've never seen that movie all the way through in one sitting. It has sweaty men driving hot cars really fast, I'm not sure why I haven't.
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As for F&F, I saw the first one, this is the most recent one and I gotta tell you, THE CARS! OMG! THE CARS! Vin Diesel is not attractive to me, but OMG THE CARS!
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