"As a debut author, she didn't want to overstep. But she also included a few more specific things: She wanted the art to be gender neutral-no pinks or purples."
"By crudely foregrounding that the author was a Black woman, the design eclipsed all other aspects of the book-including the thing it was actually about."
"If you tell me that you read a sample of my work and this is the cover you created, I'm having a crisis of- What did I write that would evoke this?"
"The process, and the exhausting self-advocacy it demanded, eroded some of her trust in her publisher and anything they said that might follow."
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