Time for my favorite game - Caption That Cover. Below, a work of majestic cover art. Give it a caption - LOL or otherwise, and leave it in the comments. Best one judged by your votes and me gets a $20 gift certificate to Amazon or the bookstore of your choice. Comments close in 24 hours.
Enjoy!
read more »I love silliness. Specifically, the Uncycopedia’s definition of a romance novel. My top faves:
A good cover must be able to instantly quell the buyer’s instinctive urge to ponder “Do I really need to read another one of these books?”
Wow. I’m amazingly susceptible because I acquire new romance more often than I acquire food.
It at once probes the dewy moistness of plot, while it throbs with purpose, knowing no bounds in which its authors will stop to please and sate their gentle reader….
Martin shed all of his declensions. But she could not help it but to stare as this splendid vulgar Latin shed his cases. The nominative, accusative, and ablative cases were tossed upon the floor with an insouciance. With egality, fraternity, and liberty, Martin discarded the last of his genetive and dative cases.
SNORT.
But, alas, I could have done without R’shaun and Q’tana. I can think of some much less awful captions.
And since I love silliness, in honor of Carleen Brice’s National Buy A Book By A Black Author And Give It To Somebody Not Black Month I’m going to make that cover over and undo some of the not-at-all-latent racism inherent… read more »
Adventures in bad Photoshopping make for great covers and they make for even better contests. The winner of the “Caption That Cover: Turkey Edition” contest is, without a giblet of a doubt, TeddyPig for Butterballin’.
Honorable Gobble mentions go to: Judy for “Turfucken for dinner again??” and Becky for referencing the joke that will NEVER get old, “Stuffing the turkey, saving its life!”
Thanks to all who posted a caption, and to whoever designed that cover for perfectly balancing the creepy and the hilarious in one image. Happy Thanksgiving, folks!
read more »It’s soon to Turkey Day here in the United States of Carbs, and we’re happy to inspire your appetite, or perhaps drive it deep into the earth to hide until Groundhog’s Day, by allowing you to view and caption the following cover. What are they saying? What are they thinking? Dear GOD won’t someone think of the children? The blank eyed, oddly staring creepy children?
Best caption as chosen by me gets a $20 gift certificate to Amazon or Powell’s, your choice. Feel free to nudge my voting by telling me which in the comments is your fave.
And now… the cover. Feast (hur) your eyes on this!
[Thanks to Sharon and many others for the link.]
read more »Thanks to the many, many people who forwarded me the Fail Blog’s salute to three-handed romance. I have a special love of that cover - that chick is my avatar. Why? The only thing better than having a third hand would be the magical ability to conjure up more hours in the day. Three hands?! OMG PLZ.
So! A contest is born! Take that fabulous cover and LOL-caption it. Certainly we can do better than “FAIL,” because certainly, while it’s an artistic fail, as a matter of promotional opportunity, for Christina Dodd, it was utterly full of win.
Your quest: take the cover, and LOL Caption it. You have 24 hours, and can post them in the comments or post links to an image hosted elsewhere. If you do post them here, please don’t make the image more than 325 pixels wide, please. Vote for your favorites in the comments, please, and then we’ll have a vote-off for the top 3 over the weekend.
Grand Prize? The book itself, of course! One pristine, fabulous copy of the three-handed woman adorning the cover of Christina Dodd’s Castles in the Air. Second prize: $20 to the online bookstore of… read more »
While both Karen and many others questioned the statement that this man is hot, behold, she is teh winnah of our latest Caption that Cover contest, with her entry, Cat on a Hot Tan Man. Hooray Karen! You win $20 spanky dollars at your choice, Amazon or Powells.
Honorable mentions go to Suze for The Incongruously Blond Italian Billionaire’s Familiar Mistress , Karmyn for the inimitable This wasn’t what he had in mind when Mrs. Slocumbe offered him her pussy, and to Amy for i haz ur heero / u bring cheezbrgr / or no happyend fur u .
Well played, y’all. That thread was way too much fun.
read more »JebB dove into the user book store, and came up with a cover so excellent, she immediately sent it to me with the request that we caption this bad boy.
I dunno, really. There aren’t any decent puns that are at all obvious in the art.
As usual, vote for your fave, and I’ll use my paper and pencil to count up the votes and award $20 in gifty dollars to the winner. Ready set go!
read more »Ready, Set, Go - time to caption a cover so strange, we have to ask you to give it a caption. Voting takes place in the comments, and she who hath the most votes gets the prize. The prize? $20 to the bookstore of your choice - Amazon or Powell’s. So, have at it.
This one brings new meaning to the word “private box.” Or, maybe not so private.
read more »I have to pick two winners for the first of what I hope will be a continuing contest series here at SBTB, Caption That Cover. I offered an ARC of King of Sword and Sky, or two of Rhonda Nelson’s books, The Hell Raiser and The Loner. Folks commented with their ideas for This Studly Guy. To be specific, 160+ people commented.
Holy shit, are you people funny. I mean, I knew that already, but damn. And also merde and mon dieu (TM Nathalie Grey).
While I read the comments and worked out my abs, the awesome sauce people at Harlequin have added to the prize pot. I now have two copies of The Hell Raiser, plus The Loner and the ARC to give away, so let’s get to it.
Snort-worthy entries included Peyton’s “Carpe Testes!” and Jessica Andersen’s “This package will self destruct in five…four…three….” And the “Who the fuck has towels that say ‘dry clean only?’” from S Andrew Swann had me snorting so hard I nearly swallowed my gum, as did Chez’s “Soap on a rope ..... (swing) ..... soap on a rope .... (swing) ....”
*drumroll please* But the top three as measured by… read more »
Ok, this book has nothing to do with one of the prizes, but I have an ARC to give away, and this cover makes me feel verry verrrry creative. And really, there is no law at Smart Bitch HQ that says I have to make any sense. Whee! So, two prizes, one contest, and my thanks to April for the linkage and the original question.
Take a look at the picture below the fold. In the comments, tell me what he’s looking at. A few words, a narrative, a poem, whatever. Just tell us what he’s looking at. The two best winners as judged by you all and yours truly will win either (a) a copy of Rhonda Nelson’s The Hell Raiser and The Loner OR (b) my ARC of C.L. Wilson’s King of Sword and Sky (which is due out in October). The fabulous folks at The Dorch sent me a digital copy and a paper copy, and when I asked and said “Please,” they said it would be spiffy to give my paper ARC away to one of you lovely readers. Comments expire in 24 hours.
So, on your mark, get set, and tell me: What’s he looking… read more »
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