Well...why do publishers always white-wash or take out the person of color from the cover even if the main character of the book is black, asian etc? People shouldn't do that. Many authors get upset when their covers get turned into a white person or their cover just has a faded person on it. We as authors...no artists want to express ourselves the way we want to. We don't want someone else change our work. If we have an idea for our covers or art then let us keep our work the way we want to. Don't change it. That's why a lot of people go independent. Because we want our work the way we want it without anyone trying to change it. And another thing: whats wrong with the hero and heroine being virgins in books? There's nothing wrong with people being virgins. Not everyone has sex at a certain age. Maybe they want to wait what's wrong with that? Nothing I tell u. *coughs & blushes a bit* 

Sorry I got carried away...My thing is...Whats wrong with there being diversity in writing? I prefer having characters of all ethnic backgrounds and body shapes then just broad-shoulders, overly exaggeratedly handsome men and skinny and falsly pretty blondes or redheads. I have nothing against them but people act like those are the only men and women that should be in books and that's not how the world is. Our world is diverse and full of culture. Not all women are skinny, but are described as curvy and automatically go for a guy just cause their in a crisis and not all men are broad-shouldered, overly-muscular and brood over whatever. The world is diverse and should be shown as that especially in books or else those of us in the world won't be able to identify with anyone in the books we read. I'm sorry if I'm confusing you. I just feel like all ethnic groups are being represented in literature without using stupid stereotypes. And as a young black aspiring author, it angers me that I don't see enough diversity in writing especially in young adult and new adult fiction which is what I want to write books in. Its hard to keep my love of writing and reading up when all I see and hear about are books to where the hero and heroine are experienced in sex and they fall for each other based on looks and they have more sex instead of getting to know each other. Sex and appearance isn't all there is to relationships. I'm not every book is like this. But most of the books are and it's annoying. It's hard to write a book that has diverse characters when their always being represented by false stereotypes and their always treated like their the bad guys. Once again, I'm sorry for getting carried away. I just really want to see and hopefully write/finish a book that has diversity without any stereotypes.