I have been assimiliated...

...am am willing to use Blogger again, because I am so cranky about the unappealing cover of the upcoming Ellen Emerson White book, Long May She Reign. It'll be hard enough to sell teens on this title, given that it's being published over a decade after Long Live the Queen. And it didn't help that Hawk Publishing created such egregiously bad cover art for the re-prints of the first three titles about Meg. This new cover art won't draw people in, and it's so obvious - or course Meg's got sunglasses, a Williams sweatshirt (though: pink?), and a hand brace. It's all reminiscent of the cover art for the original cover of Voigt's Izzy, Willy-Nilly - and, as my fellow librarian just pointed out, of the Mona Lisa. I didn't even notice that!