http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6675065.html?industryid=47152In an exclusive interview to Publishers Weekly, we discover the publisher of Liar is going to re-jacket the entire 100,000 copy print run due to the outcry in the blogosphere regarding the “whitewashing” of the cover. A story about an African-American girl with “nappy” hair had a visibly white girl with straight hair on the cover, and will now have either a text-only cover like the Australian version of the book, or an African American girl.For me, this issue has raised a long-standing dilemma for writers, regarding race. There appear to be two camps of people: “you can …

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