Pick Your Feehan Hair

Sometimes, you’re just not sure if a cover is going to work. I imagine this happens to everyone in publishing. Maybe there’s two perfect covers, or two perfect models, and you can’t pick the right one. Sometimes, it’s just a question of hair. Uber curl or long and blonde?

Which do you choose? How about both! Uber-alert reader Tracey sent me a heads-up about these two… heads.

Exhibit A: the paperback cover

Exhibit B: the ebook cover

Which do you like better?

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  1. sweetsiouxsie says:

    What! No mullet??!!? ;oP

  2. JoAnn says:

    I agree with those who are voting for whichever looks like the character in the actual book. I hate it when random people who are clearly unconnected to the main characters are pictured on the cover.

  3. wendy says:

    No 1 looks like the guy out of Memento

  4. Kilian Metcalf says:

    I didn’t vote.  I’m just so thrilled that he has a head that I don’t care what kind of hair is on it. 

    added44 – In the time it took to read this post, B&N added 44 books to their shelves with headless people on the cover

  5. Dusk Carter says:

    I havn’t actually started the Leopards yet (carps? finished and dieing for the next, Ghostwalkers, half way, Drake sisters, nope.)  so i have no clue what he’s supposed to look like..

    Im all for #1 though and LONG LIVE THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERT!!!!!!!

    er… never mind…

  6. Oh man, this race is tight! Tight like the well-oiled raven curls everyone ought to be voting for.

  7. megalith says:

    Well, they’ve also darkened the entire picture in the second version, NOT coincidentally making his skin appear darker. I think this is an attempt to make the original model fit the lead character in the book’s ethnicity a bit better. But, good luck with that. Both are a FAIL for me.

  8. Anne Fescharek says:

    The dark haired one for sure.  Now all he needs is blue eyes! sigh!

  9. lizw65 says:

    As others have stated, I’ll go with whichever one best fits the character—however, neither looks like a native of Borneo, so I’m guessing massive fail there.  Oh, and the “panther” looks like a big-ass vole.  (Guess I’ll choose cover #1 after all.  Westley and the ROUS!)

    spamword:  try69 Haha!

  10. “…she’s following his scent…”

    I’m a painter, and I don’t want to diss the artist who did the original and maybe had it messed up by marketing…but really, on the trail of his scent and the poor kitty looks disgusted and the poor guy looks like he’s trying to pretend it wasn’t him… but most of all, the blob of freakin fire in the jungle is just wrong. The drama needs to be big fire in background with foreground featuring studly silhouette and dangerous cat stalking together into danger…

  11. carrie says:

    I can’t think of a less sexy tagline than “following his scent”.  He’s running around in the sweaty jungle changing into a giant kitty cat.  What do you think he smells like, chocolate?  No wonder he looks so depressed.

    behind23 – there are 23 fart bombs going off behind me, but the real problem is the B.O.  Sorry, honey!

  12. Jeannie says:

    Can I say no to both and call it a day? What a dweeb. He looks like he’s half-stoned in both shots. Hey maybe that’s why he’s strolling through the jungle. He’s looking for more weed because the DEA found his and set it on fire behind him. Watch out for that panther! It looks like it mught have the munchies!

  13. I am not partial to blonds but if those are my only two choices, I’ll go with cover #1. The second just looks like he stuck his head in the Gulf of Mexico.

  14. Brigit says:

    Neither! Both covers look badly photoshopped (let’s not talk about this nose-job or the placement of the flames!).
    And I agree with carrie on the tagline: a man that can be tracked by scent? Yuck. Double yuck! Whoever wrote this probably never used cramped public transportation in 90° weather… so unsexy…

  15. Kristina says:

    Yuck. Double yuck! Whoever wrote this probably never used cramped public transportation in 90° weather… so unsexy…

    LMAO with Brigit.  I do ride cramped public trans in South Texas every day at the peak of rush hour.  Sometimes it is so not fun or pleasingly aromatic.    Being able to smell someone out of site range is definitly not a positive thing.

    Spam catcher word:  local53.  I think the 53 locals that get on my bus in the afternoons have neither heard of or ever used clinical strength deoderant.  :0)

  16. Theresa says:

    Who cares about the hair.  Dude looks totally stoned.

  17. Anne says:

    (channelling the leopard’s opinion)

    OK, both of these shots are just crap.  I look like some piece of roadkill my inebriated father dragged in.  I don’t even look pissed.  And I was going for pissed.  Really pissed.

    WTF did they do to my eyes?  I’m edgy.  Those eyes don’t look edgy.  Those eyes say “ooooh, look at me, don’t you think I’d be cute all curled up on yer pillow?

    And, not to put too fine a point on it, I am a leopard.  Leopard.  LEOPARD.  I am sleek.  I am graceful.  Do I see that here?  No.  No I do not. 

    I look like a kind of loopy manbearpig.

    Damn, the shit I do for art

    spamword:  tried88 – I tried 88 times to feel better about this and I just can’t.  Imma go get me a beer.

  18. John says:

    I resent that YA kerfuffling.  That’s serious business, especially considering that the market is focused on teenagers who are impressionable and should be more accepting of other races.  *coughcough*  Plus how hard is it to find an ethnically correct cover model?  I mean, it’s not everyone who isn’t pale skinned was killed in a mass genocide. 

    As to the covers:  Can I say both suck on so many levels?  Photoshop, bad looking heroes, and just something I would be ashamed to cart around.  Not because it’s a romance, but because the cover just friggin stinks.  That being said, I went with the darker guy, because I find him hotter and more brooding.  The blonde also gives me the chills in the worst possible way. 

    didnt26 – I didn’t like either of these covers even a tiny bit.  For shame, cover artists, for shame.

  19. Kelly S says:

    Which one matches the hero?  Is the dude described in the book as blond or dark haired?  I want it to match more than make me go “Yum.”

  20. Ashley JAM says:

    The dark haired guy is definitely sexier and more appropriate for the cover. I mean, it looks like he is in the Amazon… how many naturally blond Latin men do you know?

  21. Ashley JAM says:

    And PS – Do these covers read Indiana Jones to anyone else, or is it just me?

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