#yacovers

Some brief thoughts on why diversity in YA covers is important.

A post about how many of the cover designs for YA books suck. It seems, however, that the author forgets that YA isn't a genre. YA is comprised of many types of genres. YA can be fiction. YA can be non-fiction. You get the drill.

I think I could write quite a bit about how I disagree with the points made in this article. In short, Lowry seems to want to lump all YA bloggers into the same category and says nothing of the bloggers who constant talk about issues surrounding models of color being used on YA covers.

YA author Malinda Lo explains her opinion of the white washing of YA covers.

On YA whitewashing, complete with charts and graphs.

There is a disturbing trend among YA book covers: those that depict dead or nearly dead young women. This post discusses how this trend glamorizes death.