Elise Logan was kind enough to send me a snapshot collection of some of the finest covers among her library of old skool romance. Among the many, many amazing covers?
Fabio.
According to Elise, this is her secret shame. Well, it’s not so much a secret any more, since I’m telling The Whole Internet.
Behold: the Fabster:
Yeah, yeah, that’s not a big deal. Many people own this book. Heck, *I* own that book.
But you know what they say about romance. And Fabio. It’s what’s inside that counts.
Elise’s mother waited in line for THREE HOURS for the following:
That right there is a personalized autographed copy of Fabio’s Pirate. Seriously, I’d never let anyone touch that. Especially if they smoked.
Why?
Check out what Rose found for me: Fabio doesn’t like smoking!
If there’s a signed Fabio Doesn’t Want You to Smoke poster floating around, well, forget fine art and the Michael Crichton collection. That would be literary pop art at its very finest.
I really love Fabio. I love anything that’s remotely B-grade. If you want me to love it, all yall gotta do is toss some Cheese on there and I am all about it. I think Fabio is a sweetheart!
Oh this is awesome! I wasn’t reading single titles when Fabio was everywhere so I had not seen one IRL. This gives me hope!
I’m not sure it’s a verified account but there is a “Fabio” on Twitter –
http://twitter.com/fabioIanzoni
Only 11 Tweets and they seem legit.
See what you girls started? I never was a Fabio fan but as someone who’s militantly against smoking, finding out he’s smart, and he adopts rescue dogs, suddenly I want to read his books and follow his Tweets! Doggone you all! LOL
I’m trying to remember the tagline for an ad for Fabio’s scent. It was something like “Made for a man, for the pleasure of a woman” or roundabouts. Anyone remember this?
And yes, a friend and I read several of Fabio/ghostwriter’s books. They weren’t gawdawful is all I’ll say.
I don’t know about Fabio’s scent, but I found this –
Got to hand it to a guy willing to poke fun of himself.
Oy vey! Do you see what you girls have done to me?!
At one time he was considered the sexiest man on Earth? Boy, those were scary times.
I used to think so too, Go, but since this blog I’ve changed my opinion somewhat. Yes, physically speaking he’s still rather ugly, however I have found out he’s highly intelligent, adopts rescue dogs, and he once chased George Clooney out of a restaurant because Clooney was cursing at some women Fabio was with as part of a fund raiser. He feels Clooney has “no class” and said that one should never treat a woman the way Clooney did.
That, to me, is hot. (I always did hate Clooney. Thought he was ugly and untalented.)