Kimberly sent me a link to the following cover, and I stared at it for a good ten minutes.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, tell me what happened to this guy? Caption this cover! You’ve got 24 hours, and I’ve got a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore of your choice, if you can caption this cover and tell me… what went wrong, oh, so very, very wrong?

Standard disclaimer: I have no idea what happened to that man. I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Please see your doctor for an erection lasting more than four hours. Do not taunt happy fun ball. It rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs.


Rio is the latest photoshop victim of the red letter “R”…
Beware… One of first symtpoms is armpit hair thinning…
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Loved the book (and the series), never really noticed the cover. But then, I rarely do. I suppose it’s good that someone does.
Warning this is the results of a Witch scorned.
Jeebers, that’s one big man tit!
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man. Rio will be that man; better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster and most importantly with bigger man-titty, long blue hair and a meticulously manscaped underarm”
Rio passed out in a cheap Vegas motel and woke up as the only male contestant on “The Swan.”
“We’ve done it Vampires, We’ve done it Werewolves. Now it’s time to fall in love with Homunculi.”
Captcha: boys98. Yeah, sure, that’s 98% boy.
Rodrigo, having made up his mind to bring his gigolo business to the States, was very pleased with himself for having spent the time picking up the local lingo. Sadly, the language barrier failed him when he misheard “enormous testicles” for “malformed breasticles”.
Rio was the best infomercial salesman in the world. He had demonstrated on air how to use the at-home Man Titty Inflator to pump up his chest—sales skyrocketed! And yeah, maybe he’d had a couple of ribs removed to make his man-cleavage stand out, but it was all worth it if it lead to a sale.
He couldn’t understand why nobody wanted to buy the Shareem. How could he reach out to the millions of men around the world interested in buying a pocket-sized armpit hair trimmer for the low, low price of $9.95?
That’s when he decided to write a book…
Rio enjoyed the bend and snap a little too much.
Never one to follow the crowd, Rio decided to have his sex change from the bottom up.
Props to Pam for the Duran Duran reference.
The Shareem were humanoid, thought Rio, but their proportions were just off. It looked like someone had chopped up photographs of a dozen different people, male and female, and attempted to assemble them. And yet, despite their appearance from uncanny valley, Rio couldn’t help but think about her Shareem. His lush armpit hair, tail attached to the back of his head, tiny little head, and the silver band that marked him. Theirs was a romance across species, but she could make it work!
Code: until85: Not going to forget this picture of Photoshop gone wrong until I’m 85.
“…In just 7 days, I can make you a maaa…nnn…”
or was that a jump to the left?