Cover Snark: What’s Your Bone Song?

For us in the States, it’s a holiday weekend! If you’re in the Northeast though, it’s rainy and gross and you may be stuck inside. So here’s some Cover Snark. And even if you’re not stuck in less than pleasant weather, have some Cover Snark anyway!

Rimfire by William W. Johnstone. Two rugged cowboys with guns. The series name is Those Jensen Boys.

Sarah: It’s not a romance, and it probably says more about my 12-year-old-boy sense of humor than anything else, but the combination of That Title + That Series Title + Those Cover Models brings to mind…well, I’m sure you can figure it out.

Amanda: A rimfire is what happens when I eat too much spicy food.

Just a Little Christmas by Janet Dailey. A cowboy stuck in a blizzard. He's holding an extremely tiny, fluffy puppy in his hands.

Amanda: HOW DARE YOU, TINY DOG

RHG: THAT IS UNFAIR ADVERTISING

I’m pretty sure.

Carrie: I have no interest in the dude whatsoever but sure, I’ll take the dog.

Iz zo fluffffffyyyyy.

Sarah: That is one powerful small dog. I’m sort of in awe of it.

Bone Song by John Meaney. The title looks like it's on some sort of headstone and the background looks like the London skyline.

Amanda: What is “Pony” by Ginuwine, Alex.

Elyse: Just what my eleven-year-old sense of humor needed on a Monday

Sarah: I’ll take, “That Thong tha-thong-thong-thong” for 1000, please.

Friends With Multiple Benefits by Luke Young. A headless couple dressed in white. The woman is pregnant and wearing a white tube top, exposing her belly. The dude is behind her, reaching around and putting his mitts on her tummy.

Amanda: How many benefits are we talking here?

RHG: Dental?

Amanda: Babies aren’t cheap, so let’s hope.

Elyse: They couldn’t iron the shirt for the photo shoot?

Amanda: And judging by the fabric, it looks like he’s wearing basketball shorts.

Elyse: Classy.

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  1. Megan M. says:

    “A rimfire is what happens when I eat too much Mexican food.” Ahahahahahaha! Same.

  2. Suleikha Snyder says:

    You know I love the Bitchery, but I could really do without the “Mexican food gives me diarrhea, hur hur hur!” jokes.

  3. Amanda says:

    @Suleikha: You’re completely right, Suliekha. It was an immature and classless comment. It’s also been edited in the post.

  4. Shana says:

    Wait…”Rimfire” isn’t a M/M romance? Wha…?

  5. Suze in CO says:

    “I’ll take that puppy from you now, guy who is too dumb to zip his coat or wear a hat or gloves in the snow, let alone understand that live animals should never be given as gifts!”

  6. bookworm says:

    lol about the Friends With Benefits one especially. The shirt is totally wrinkled and yea those look like basketball shorts.

  7. Suleikha Snyder says:

    @Amanda, thanks. I appreciate the edit.

  8. Dr. Opossum says:

    William W. Johnstone “fun fact”: This very prolific pulp author died in 2004 but still produces multiple new books a year.

  9. Susan says:

    I apparently bought Bone Song back in 2011 but have no recollection of it.

  10. Louise says:

    live animals should never be given as gifts
    If the purpose of this cover was, for some reason, to make people decide not to buy the book … they’ve succeeded. Some kind of weird tax write-off thing, maybe?

  11. LauraL says:

    Known fact … country guys don’t button up those Carhartt jackets unless the weather is really, really bad. Like ice forming on the Carhartt or camo t-shirt bad. So just a little Christmas may include taking care of a whiny guy with a little frostbite.

  12. scifigirl1986 says:

    Rimfire has me rolling my eyes. Really? That’s the cover someone approved?

    As an aside: The Forbidden Promises cover (one of the ads) looks like the guy has a black eye (right eye). I’m not the only one seeing that, am I?

  13. Louise says:

    @scifigirl:
    I’m not the only one seeing that, am I?

    Sorry, no, it’s just you. To me he looks more like he’s at least a week overdue for a good night’s sleep.

    Unfortunately, scrolling up for a closer look brought me right past the “Wax Creative” headline which to me just sounds painful.

  14. Rhoda Baxter says:

    ‘Rimfire’. snigger.
    Your cover snark posts never fail to cheer me up!

  15. Zyva says:

    Uh, sorry this is so, but to “bone” someone means to “fire them from their job” in Australian English. For extra unsexy points, it tends to be chauvinist pig producers doing the firing and female TV presenters on the receiving end.
    So…maybe it’s not so odd if I think “Rattlin’ Bones” by Kasey Chambers when you say “Bone Song”. Kinda matches the book, at that.

  16. Mischa Eliot says:

    Why can’t women have big dogs? Oh wait, they can. The book I’m currently listening to – the woman owns a well-trained rottweiler.
    And I’m giggling like Beavis & Butthead at RimFire and Bone Song. If they need instructions, they should try “My Neck, My Back”.

  17. Demi says:

    Wow…Rimfire…I can only guess someone with a squeaky clean mind decided that was a keeper of a title.

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