It was a hot mess of Photoshop WTFery, and in the end, the captions were AWESOME. Behold the runners up and the winner in our latest caption that cover contest.
Wait, you want another look at the cover? Oh, ok! Sure!
Ahhh, feel that fine crazy Photoshop goodness. It’s tangible, isn’t it? Like someone running their nails down your own personal chalkboard.
So, without further ado, here are the Honorable Mentions:
Bronwyn Parry: Irrational Photoshop
DS: Irrational Aruousal, Indecent Exposure
Elizabeth Wadsworth: “When you play with MY erector set, every zone is a hard hat zone!”
Maili: Men at Work: Farting My Love
Lovecow2000: Passing Passion
Bethy: I fart in your general direction.
Stacy W: The Village People Poops Partial Peopl
And our Runners Up:
Soraya for Construction Junction! What’s your function?
Brooks*belle for This…is not a drill”
And our winner, receiving a fine sparkly gift certificate to the bookstore of his/her choice, is:
Winner:
M. Nightingale for both “Genie in a Butthole” and “If Minerva came from Uranus”
Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom to claim yer winnings. And thanks for getting that Christina Aguilera song stuck in my head. Thanks for playing, everyone. I’ll reopen the comments so folks can discuss the horrible on the original entry.
I would love it if, after all this razzing on the cover, someone would read the book and tell us if you really CAN judge a book by its cover.
Cause you probably can.
Hey M Nightingale you should email me at summerdevon at gmail.com. You absolutely deserve a copy of your own.
Love the winner!! =) Both of hers were beyond fabulous!
And SQUEEEEEEEE! I was a runner up! How dorky am I that my day has now been made? ;P
@AnonyMiss: Am reading it now. Stay tuned.
OMG love Brooks*belle “This . . . is not a Drill” had me rofl
With all the collective genius of the Bitchery it’s a wonder no one’s called on us to come up with a workable health care plan for this country.
Well done, winners!
Awesome captions. Now could someone explain to me why the publishers bother with these horrid, horrid photoshopped covers? It seriously cannot be cheaper or more sales-inducing than a simple cover with, like, a flower or a hard hat (heh) or a lipstick print or cartoon or SOMETHING. And if it turns out these horrid, horrid covers do generate more sales? I will . . . I . . . well, I don’t know what I’d do to learn we live in a world where people think these covers are good.
Seriously, WHY? Who looks at these covers and thinks “Yeah, that’s what we want, this looks good”??? Gah.
oh, sweet merciful jesus. “genie in a butthole” had me sending rice crsipies all over my living room. I don’t do that often..
best note I got: “they were obviously keen to find something to really illustrate your title. It is the most oddly logical romance cover I’ve ever seen.”
And remember. At least it’s not a poser cover.
It’s the lack of nipples that really squick me out. Was it some kind of kinky industrial accident? Was he made in a test tube? I DEMAND an answer.
ps. thanks for the nod SB Sarah. Made my day.