Malinda Lo

Since my next novel is science fiction, I’ve been really interested in what young adult science fiction covers look like these days. So I started skimming through publishers’ catalogs for Fall 2011 and Winter/Spring 2012 to see what’s out there right now and what’s coming up in the near future.1 I started out with a ... More→

Last month I traveled across the country with Cindy Pon for our Diversity Tour, which made stops in San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Boston, and New York. In each city we had panel discussions (along with several other local authors) at bookstores or libraries about diversity. I’ve been thinking back over the tour because I wanted ... More→

Today over at the Enchanted Inkpot, I posted a piece about cover trends in this winter’s crop of YA fantasy novels. Several commenters immediately noted that they saw a lack of people of color on the book covers, and expressed a desire for more diversity. My reaction is sorta complicated, and since whitewashing YA covers ... More→

In all the whirlwind of my own book launch I totally forgot to post this month’s Debut Books By Their Cover (here’s last month’s)! So today I’m going to catch up by doing all of August and September’s new books from the 2009 Debutantes. Here we go: Prophecy of the Sisters (Little, Brown) by Michelle ... More→

By now, I thought the controversy over the cover for Justine Larbalestier’s novel Liar would have died down, but to my surprise, the discussion is still going strong. (This is good!) If you’re not familiar with what happened, here’s the short version: Liar is a YA novel about a liar. The main character happens to ... More→

Every month I like to highlight new releases from the 2009 Debutantes, along with the authors’ thoughts about their covers (first impressions and all that, right?). Last month only two Debs books were released, but they were good ones! Secrets of Truth and Beauty (Hyperion) by Megan Frazer After a misunderstanding at school, a former ... More→