sarahreesbrennan:

cindypon:

diversityinya:

Diversity in Publishers Weekly’s 2013 Young Adult Bestsellers

The number of diverse YA titles — when diverse means main characters of color, LGBT and/or disabled main characters — has remained flat. There has been no improvement overall since last year.

Read the whole post with charts and analysis at DiversityinYA.com.

for all the discussion on diversity of late, numbers stay flat for the bestsellers in YA. but as i was saying on twitter last night, the majority of diverse authors and diverse books are not given lead title status.

Relevant to my last reblog of Malinda’s awesome book for cheapsies. Relevant also: Malinda and Cindy’s books are both awesome!

It’s not just a question of ‘the books aren’t there’ though more would be great!

The books that are there are not getting the support they deserve.