Oh, come the fuck on!

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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.

Not letting the author chose what face her book presents to the world. Say it with me now... NOT OKAY!

Holy baby Jesus that's a lot of fail.

I couldn't even wait until morning to get it out of my system, because I don't like things fucking with my sleep patterns.

No love,
Somebody who really wants to buy that damn book but just can't bring herself to give you any more of her hard earned money.

Excuse me I must go decompress by finally listening to thisisbone and thefourthvine and watching Fast & Furious. And to not completely bring everybody's mood down, um, shit, I had some good news somewhere...oh, yes, Happy Birthday to random_flores, you are an awesome friend.

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I see your icon and my first thought is, when was the last time I read a Thursday Next book?

And you do tend to produce a slightly different type of book, dear. But yes.

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I haven't read a Thursday Next book in a while, either. They kind of got old to me, after a while. On the other hand, having recently re-read Jane Eyre, I'm feeling the urge to go re-read The Eyre Affair, now.


And you do tend to produce a slightly different type of book, dear. But yes.

Yeah, it's not exactly gripping literature. On the other hand, our books are market-driven too, very much so, and yet it was never ever a question of not putting pictures of non-white kids on the covers. Everyone was like Well, of course, because we want the covers to reflect the people who are buying the books, or who we WANT to buy the books. And I seriously doubt the fact that we've got a picture of a Hispanic kid on several of our AP books has stopped a white kid (or a white parent) from buying that book, you know?

People are stupid, often.

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Everyone was like Well, of course, because we want the covers to reflect the people who are buying the books, or who we WANT to buy the books. And I seriously doubt the fact that we've got a picture of a Hispanic kid on several of our AP books has stopped a white kid (or a white parent) from buying that book, you know?

People are stupid, often.

And this is why I love you, because you understand this intrinsically.

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*beams*