Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Cover Models
February 10, 2012 | Friday | 15 Comments
CS Central Science has a feature about Heather Snow's first novel - a historical romance with a chemist heroine. The CENtral Science blog is connected to the chemistry journal, "Chemistry & Engineering News." Thanks to Karen for the link - she wrote, "I was surprised to see a romance novel mentioned in a chemistry blog, but I was pleased that the story didn't have anything negative to say about romance novels! It was so refreshing to see an article about romance that was positive, especially in such an unusual place." I love this kind of support so much. Yay chemist…
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February 09, 2011 | Wednesday | 121 Comments
Reader Cate alerted me to the differences in Elizabeth Hoyt’s covers between the US and UK versions. Have a look. This is the UK version: And this is the US version: Cate went out of her way to order the US copy even though she’s in the UK, because she really, really dislikes the historical inaccuracy of the cover: “This is a book set in 1737 - I know that because it says so on the first page(!).So why then have Piatkus given the book a set of cover models who look like they’ve just walked off the set of…
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October 19, 2010 | Tuesday | 77 Comments
In the past few days, we’ve been talking a lot about cover makeovers and the photoshoppery that creates multiple covers out of the same image - and stay tuned, because there is MORE coming. I know, how can it possibly be? Since I began reading romance sites online, I’ve encountered with some regularity the frustration that some readers have when the cover models look literally nothing like the characters described inside. Sometimes, when the character in a romance is a short, curvy, buxom woman with a dark pixie haircut and the cover model is a lithe, extremely slender redhead with…
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