Enough teasing. We’re ridiculously amused by our cover, and it’s about time we showed it to you, so, you ready?
It’s a work of art, a book cover… well, really it’s visual game we call Find the Hidden Phalli with your hosts, Sarah, Candy, and Touchstone/Fireside.
The cover of the Smart Bitch Book, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance, due out 14 April 2009, isn’t at Amazon yet (sorry folks) so this (and our email inbox) is the only place you can find it, and a few other hidden images.
AWESOME!!!! I can’t wait for this to hit the “shelves”.
and I just applied for an Amazon Visa, which I know will kill me in the long run, but I am tired of going to the bookstore and not finding what I want.
Now I just have to keep myself from getting a Kindle with it.
Never mind. I just went over and pre-ordered the book.
yeah, this card will be a baaad thing.
Fabulous…I especially liked the enormous thumb on her left leg. It is a thumb, isn’t it?
What? Cassie Edwards didn’t wanna give you a cover quote?
hehe Don’t HIT ME!
LOVE the cover and having a Nora Roberts quote on the front is a spectacular achievement on it’s own merit. Congrats and hurry up APRIL!
I wanna hear it in audio with Sarah and Candy narrating LOL
Congratulations, Bitches!
I can’t wait to read it. 🙂
Awesome. But couldn’t you find another three-handed woman? That would have really rocked. Many congrats, and on Nora’s name too! Can’t wait!
Congrats, chickadees! A very fun, very heaving-bosomy cover, and I dig the retro graphics.
Congrats! It’s awesome—and I’ve spotted TWO!
RE: rebyj said on…
11.14.08 at 03:52 PM |
What? Cassie Edwards didn’t wanna give you a cover quote?
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Isn’t it enough that you people set out to destroy her career and almost caused her death?
In case you don’t know, which I know for a fact you have been told, Cassie Edwards suffered a massive stroke due to the stress you idiots put on her.
I hope you can live with yourselves knowing what you did almost cost this woman her life. You have deprived her grandchildren of their grandmother. You have caused a lot of innocent people much heartache by your actions.
Everyone is blaming you and your cronies for what happened. Not just her fans, fan club members, etc. I’m talking publishers, authors, editors, and more. I hope almost killing someone was worth the 15 minutes of fame.
If you have any reason to think this is a lie, contact Carol Stacy at Romantic Times and I’m sure she’ll verify the information for you.
A lot of Cassie’s fans plan on being at the RT convention in Orlando just so they can attend your blogging seminar. Instead of it being about the art of blogging maybe it should be about the art of how to destroy a person’s life.
I feel like a giant drag here (and clearly in the minority), but I don’t like it. 🙁 Maybe I’m missing something? I dunno… it’s just too typical or something.
I’ll buy it and read it, but I me no likie. Sorry.
It’s absolutely great. The object in the background reminds me of an advertisement for discreet sex toys.
Love the cover and can’t wait to see what’s inside. Congratulations, SBs!
Fabulous cover…can’t wait for the book!!!
Congrats on the book. I so look forward to reading it. You guys have brought many laughs to this tired old bitch. WAY TO GO.
I pre-ordered this back in the beginning of October. Great to see the cover! Can’t wait to read the book when it finally comes out. Even the husband might read it.
Wait, someone is actually suggesting that people here caused someone’s stroke? Wha?
I mean, I am sorry that she had a stroke if this is true. That’s very sad.
However, I hardly think that pointing out someone’s unethical behavior constitutes “causing them a stroke.” If there had been no untoward behavior (ie plagiarism) in the first place, then there wouldn’t have been a “controversy.” Plagiarism is wrong, it’s stealing, and it’s also shafting all of those “fans” that paid good money for a book they thought was original. Again, if the intellectual theft hadn’t happened, there wouldn’t have been any “stress.”
Not sure what “Cassie’s fans” hope to gain by attending the RT seminar, but is that supposed to be a threat? Because addressing meanness (in your opinion) with more meanness is…supposed to solve something? Undo the poor woman’s stroke? Make “Cassie’s fans” feel better? Grow up, people.
First- I think you should send a copy to Doc Turtle for review.
Secondly- Kelli, I am sorry you feel that way, but I believe strongly in Karma. what you put in is what you get out. The only person who destroyed Cassie Edward’s life is Cassie Edwards, IF you are going to blame the stroke on anything besides a medical problem.
If the so called fans are going to show at RT and try and disrupt what is supposed to be a good time for everyone, not an open bitch session because they fail to see it for what it is, than that is sad and I hope that they are escorted out quietly so that those who paid to hear a session get what they paid for. Not a cheap floor show.
Great cover and awesome title! Congrats on your success ladies!
by the way, the chick on the cover has wonky fingers.
Love the cover. Love how the woman seems to have curly sideburns. Or is that just me? Tres cool, in any case. Totally buying this for my sister, the romance h8ter.
On the Cassie Edwards thing:
First off, a stroke is caused by a blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain or by bleeding inside the brain or the space around it. Neither of which are stress induced – that’s something you got from bad soap operas. The most likely cause? The woman is in her 70s. It happens all the time.
Second, if the stress from the whole situation was able to cause a stroke, the person at fault would be herself. No one made her plagiarize, and she should be happy she got away with it so long. If I got thrown in jail for stealing, and got hurt while in jail, would you blame the person that caught me stealing? She did something wrong and the resulting career issues are a result of what she did – we just pointed it out.
Finally, if you hate us so much and are blaming us for the woman’s demise, why are you sitting there reading through posts that aren’t Edwards related, as well as all the comments that follow? I come to this site for my own personal enjoyment and I don’t even read all the comments. That’s quite a time-intensive obsession you have there.
As for the cover: Sorry, I’m with Bonnie. I’m not loving it, but maybe I’m not just a big retro girl.
Oops. I meant “maybe I’m just not a big retro girl.”
I love the retro cover! Even the font is great. Clearly you ladies have done your homework and know what makes the perfect cover. And her fingers aren’t funny, they’re all tensed and spread outty. Will this only be available through Amazon? Bookstores too right? I’m going to tell my manager to order this for our store. If he asks why, I’ll explain your popularity and that your book will induce your fans to buy more of the stores romance novels. Money for everyone! I love you guys, you’re like my very own friends. Thanks for such a fun site.
You know, I just spent five minutes scratching my head at the cover and wondering why people were seeing CE in it. Silly me, not reading all the comments.
The WTFery of the internet.
Check out his collar-bone(er). One of the plant’s leaves look suspicious as well.
It looks fantastic, and I can’t wait to read!
reaction76- it takes me what feels like 76 years to de-lurk
I’m chomping on the bit to get it already.
I can’t wait until you start running contests to get advanced copies.
See, this is what you get when you try to have a life. I went out to dinner with my husband tonight and came back to …..
wait for it…….
Cassie Edwards?
WTF?
I can’t wait to read your book!!! And the release day is my birthday!! Yay!
Can’t wait to read the book – if it is a funny as your blog is, it will be worth the wait.
As for the game – is anyone else noticing the cutouts in the headboard? They appear to be very phalli to me….
game84 – yep, I bet we could make a game of coming up with 84 images out of this cover!
And the word BITCHES is right there front and center, not in tiny font below something less *dramatic hand to forehead* shocking. I’m so excited. And a quote from La Nora! Dude!
It was a thumb!
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ok-enough-teasing/#74702
That’s what I thought, too, but I’m pretty sure after a prolonged look that that’s supposed to be the sole of her foot. Or a phallus.
Great cover – that’s one I’d be proud to hold up in public!
I know the game is find-the-phalli, but I’m having fun imagining what the heroine is doing with her right hand…
Not ready for Christmas? *sob*
I’m so excited for y’all! And me too, cuz I gets to read it.
Kelli, I’ll say what others have been too polite to say.
You’re an idiot.
I bet I know more authors, editors and publishers than you do. Oddly, none I know blame Sarah or anyone else who posts here for Cassie Edwards’ career troubles, and certainly no one with even a few grains of sense inside the tiniest of brains blames anyone for Ms. Edwards’ stroke.
Your attitude is sad; your accusations and threats are vile.
That makes you a sad, vile idiot.
Lurking on the blog of someone you obviously dislike intensely makes you pathetic.
I think that covers it.
*sing-songs* I love Nora Roberts, I love Nora Roberts…
I’m not a big fan of that cover, though I don’t even care cause I can’t wait to get my grubby hands on it anyway! I think that I don’t like it is because I was hoping for some real eye-burning bad clinch snark for the ironic lulz. Ah well, perhaps I’ll just paste a Cassie Edwards cover over it. ;D
I didn’t want to point this out until I checked on it, but the plural of zero should be zeroes (with an e), at least according to this. Maybe it’s too late to change and maybe it really doesn’t matter that much. Hell, maybe there are alternate ways to pluralize zero for all I know, but I thought you might want to know.
It’s a choir here—**singing** I love Nora Roberts, I love Nora Roberts… she said it all.
I love retro covers, this one reminds me of the old Harlequins—so yes, I love this cover. Kudos on the book, I’ll be waiting for it… oh, and on the Roberts blurb **2 thumbs up**
The finding the phally game? I see it in the girls leg, back of the knee and back of the thigh… all done with shading and paint. That’s my take on it, lol!
CONGRATULATIONS!
I give. Everything is phallic in that cover. Which makes it fantastic, and a 100% purchase for me. Wish it came out before Christmas, it would make an awesome stocking stuffer.
Can I ask a wee question? Why is it funny that she’s a redhead? Were redhead covers overwhelmingly popular at some point?
(Spam word: sound18. Is this going to be made into an audio book at some point? Any plans?)
She’s playing the same game, but with the sense of touch not sight.
No one said you could have a life, so you have only yourself to blame. ;}
spamword- hands62.
Thank you La Nora for putting it so succinctly.