Phoenix in flames
Jun. 30th, 2010 22:14As I've mentioned, I'll be on a panel at Sirens 2010 with Cindy Pon, the author of the awesome book Silver Phoenix and the forthcoming Fury of the Phoenix. I was angered and depressed to learn this evening that the covers of Pon's books have been effectively whitewashed.
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inkstone says, clearly Greenwillow/Harper Collins wanted to go to bat for Pon; kudos to them for that. But there has to be a way to retool the covers for better sales that doesn't fall back on implicitly racist truisms. (For bonus fail, the new covers also participate in that "headless photoshopped women" book cover meme which is rightly denigrated.)
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inkstone says, clearly Greenwillow/Harper Collins wanted to go to bat for Pon; kudos to them for that. But there has to be a way to retool the covers for better sales that doesn't fall back on implicitly racist truisms. (For bonus fail, the new covers also participate in that "headless photoshopped women" book cover meme which is rightly denigrated.)