Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Covers
May 06, 2011 | Friday | 22 Comments
Los ebooks en Espanol? ¡Hombre, claro que si! Harlequin los tine! (Ebooks in Spanish? Like, DUH. Harlequin’s got them!) Have a look - they’re 25% off. ¡Qué guay! Time to gaze at covers and pick the best one - and struggle with it every time like I do, right? Yeah. It’s Cover Cafe voting time!. The voting runs until May 31st. The picking of the bestests and worstest covers MIGHT TAKE ME THAT LONG. Thanks to Karen for the heads up. Seriously. The worst cover selection this year was a choice between Bad Photoshop, Bad Stock Images, Bad Art Design…
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October 20, 2010 | Wednesday | 15 Comments
Want some reading of the ranking and listing and charting variety? From Billie: The Overthinkingit.com Female Character Flowchart. There was a lot of sketching involved in the creation of that graphic. Holy smoke. And, in further links of awesomeness, Lauren Baratz-Logsted wrote up what she considers her Book Pyramid, which parallels the AMA Food Pyramid only instead of nutrition, it ranks books by the respect they receive. Yeah. This can’t end well for romance. I have to say, I grinned at her comment: On behalf of every sensible-minded person in publishing, Romance, I’d like to offer my apologies. You make…
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September 02, 2010 | Thursday | 60 Comments
The ever-awesome LadyRhian did some scanning, and then Candy and I did some screaming and some rushing and some eyewashing, and now it’s your turn to feast your eyes on the retro majesty.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. As usual, these covers are NSFW in the fuchsia sense. I mean, there is NO way you can pass off that you’re doing work if you’re caught having a look-see at these.
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July 23, 2010 | Friday | 8 Comments
That’s right - you win nosehair! Just kidding. While I wish I could give away legless levitation with glowing ass powers, alas, my powers are limited to a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore of the winner’s choosing for winning the Caption That Cover: Nosehair Edition contest, featuring one of the very worst covers I’ve seen in a long time. Honorable mentions: redcrow for “glittery anus” Nadia for “In a world where their love is only limited by her supply of those little Tabasco packets you get at Chick-Fil-A, together they…Wait for Dusk!” Castiron for “She’s a rare example of…
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July 21, 2010 | Wednesday | 78 Comments
I received a copy of this book in the mail, and I stared at the cover for a good five minutes trying to figure out what in the name of potpourri was going on there. Take a look: First, this is one of the worst Photoshopped covers I’ve seen in forever. I can’t even find a digital image that truly showcases the hatchet and machete job of cut & paste that’s going on up in here. In the actual book cover, you can see this fugly line around the couple where they were dropped in front of the rocky background,…
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May 27, 2010 | Thursday | 45 Comments
I’m always fascinated by what folks do with romance novel covers on Etsy. If you have a giant pile of romances laying about the house (like sloths!) and you don’t know what to do with them (and really, who does know what to do with slothful romances?) here’s some Etsy-approved ideas for craftmaking. Only the best covers can become pendants. But if it’s a woman’s backside, is it really gay? And if a gay tree falls in the woods, is there wood? You can also make greetings cards out of them, though it’s always better if you (ahem) refrain from…
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May 06, 2010 | Thursday | 47 Comments
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.
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April 29, 2010 | Thursday | 83 Comments
While looking for covers for the Chesty-Back challenge, I found a new designed cover for Joanna Bourne’s The Spymaster’s Lady. Now, I loved this book, but the cover was patently ridiculous: Knock that oiled chest-baring ab-master off the cover, and substitute something more professional and perhaps boring, and I promise you, linguistics students could study this narrative as a representative work on how to accurately portray the differences in languages… Oh, that cover made me sad. More than once I’d recommended the book to people who were curious about romance and had to say, “Ignore the oiled abs. Ignore the…
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April 28, 2010 | Wednesday | 80 Comments
When I wrote last week about all the male backs adorning covers lately, I had no idea so many of you loved the view of a man as he leaves with no shirt on. And then I got to thinking- what about all the chests? Forget their heads. No one has something so gauche as a cranium on the cover of a romance novel lately. (I love to picture all the heads getting together as a decapitated cover model support group). But chests and backs? There are LOTS of them. So I got curious: which do you prefer? Backs or…
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