Also, there’s yet another blurb for Bleeding Violet. A librarian I know who subscribes to the Simon Pulse newsletter (or maybe it was Simon & Schuster?) pointed it out to me:

Just like the chick on the cover, you’ll find yourself wrapped up in this twisted and fascinating story about a crazy girl who finds herself in an even crazier town. Word to the wise: this isn’t your average paranormal story that you’ve read time and again.

If you’re looking for a cutesy protagonist, Hanna is not your girl. She is plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses. If you’re looking for bloodsuckers in the suburbs, instead you’ll find an odd East Texas town with flesh-eating creatures, parasitical spirits, and doors that lead out of this world.

But if you’re looking for a romance, you’ve come to the right place. No, not another corny love story, but one that is honest and fitting in the non-fairy tale sort of way. But don’t say I didn’t warn you . . . Love can be a dangerous thing.

I really like this blurb. I like the way it attempts to weed out the non-weirdos so that they don’t get their minds blown. xD

In other news, I’m sure everyone’s heard about how Bloomsbury put a white girl on the cover of Magic Under Glass even though the main character, Nimira, isn’t white. Bloomsbury did something similar with the book Liar, but I think that since Nimira isn’t black, they figured no one would notice or cause the same kind of fuss over a brown girl. Turns out, brown girls kinda want to see themselves represented on covers just as much as black girls do. Strange how that works, isn’t it?

Anyway, if you want to show support for Jackie Dolamore (the author of Magic Under Glass and the innocent party in all of this), go to this site http://petol.org/bc4all and sign the petition. Also, feel free to write something really scathingly brilliant to Bloomsbury about how completely uncool it is to whitewash covers in the 21st century.

Okay nevermind. xD Controversy has ended. Bloomsbury is changing the cover. http://bit.ly/8Snbd3 I’m gonna leave the contact info up though, just in case Bloomsbury decides to go for a hat-trick.