more accurate book covers

[jinian]

The original cover of Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days occasioned slight comment when it came out as (1) another of those creepy covers where the girl has no head and (2) a missed chance to accurately put a person of color onto a cover. (I think it's pretty, though.) Both problems have been fixed in the US TPB edition. I was about to write Bloomsbury to commend them, but it turns out the UK covers are both person-free (though the HC's rather lovely). So I am ambivalent about writing. There doesn't seem to have been a Liar-style public outrage or anything, as this was a much milder case of "we will let you assume she's white if you want," so if anything I am more impressed that there's an Asian girl on an Asianish-fantasyland book cover. Yay.

In unrelated news, Pagliacci proves to be just as good at customer service when they've screwed up your order as when they haven't. I had to eat stopgap granola due to incipient starvation, but I got delicious replacement pizza quite quickly really. [ETA: And the other grad students in my department will be happy to eat the misdelivery tomorrow.]

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I think commending them on the nice 'Asian girl on book about an Asian girl' cover is still worth doing and you know I believe in Writing Letters :)