Great news: no more whitewashing of 'Liar'

Justine Larbalestier's book Liar has a beautiful new cover. You can see the old cover via the Amazon link (right now, anyway — hopefully that'll be fixed soon, too). Responding to the distress of her readers, Ms. Larbalestier chose to speak out about Bloomsbury's decision to represent her black protagonist with a white cover model. And Bloomsbury — after much embarrassing defensiveness — finally chose to do the right thing and produce a new cover. They could've gone with the Australian...