I loved Whoopi Goldberg’s SUGAR PLUM BALLERINAS. I also thought the galley cover was quite nice:

 
And then the book came out, and this is the cover, and I hate it:
 

 
It’s kind of hard to see their faces, but man, I really don’t like them at all. I like the having-multicultural-color-on-the-cover part, which we definitely need [...]

Okay, so if you go down to the last post I wrote on the new covers of John Green’s books, you’ll see that he commented with an explanation for the branding: he is apparently better known as a videoblogger than he is as an author. I didn’t know that – I’ve watched a couple of [...]

I want to say something up front lest anyone think I am picking on John Green: I like his books very much, including Paper Towns (whose cover I trashed earlier), which I think may be my favorite. Also, I met him briefly at BEA once and he was very nice and personable. Thirdly, his new [...]