People were amazed that I didn’t have a word to say about Evangeline Collins’ cover. Of course I did. I have an entire entry’s worth of comments on that fluffy monstrosity of purple and fuchsia.
But I figured it would be MUCH more fun to challenge you to Caption That Cover – so it’s fun and games and contest time! Have a long, sweeping look at this cover:
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to caption that cover Using Only One Word. I won’t even give you samples. I don’t want to take one away. Your best one-word caption could win you (a) a paper copy of the book and (b) a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore of your choosing. You have 24 hours to caption that cover – with Only One Word.
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway, except to deny myself the pleasure of looking at the cover again and again so as to reassure myself that it is real. Slippery When Wet. No shirt, no shoes, no service. I believe I can call. I think I’ll use the phone in the hall. I’ll call my friends just to say ‘Hi’ with 5 cent Sundays from MCI. I believe I can call. Reach out and touch someone.
Lavendiculous (for color) and
PHWOOMPF! (for the sound most likely made as they fell back onto that pile of seconds from Hancock Fabrics)
Chiffonifall—a portmanteau meaning “waterfall of chiffon”.
Also, “PHWOOMPF! ” was one of my ideas, but I couldn’t figure out how to spell it. Good one, Gargoyle93!
Barneyphiles
Two Ideas :
tramp l’oeil
Laven-do-her (If only his first name was Laven and not James it would have been perfect…damn it !)
OMG. Is that a black and white COW in the background? Is it Holsteins that are black and white?
Promnight
Did no one else’s school use impossible amounts of oddly coloured tulle for school dances? Just mine?
Oh! or Oh?
Because there are just no words really. Is it just me or does her hand look really strange?
violaceous
Endless…
*why not… i mean, I see no end to the purple, and I bet there’s no end to the pleasure, the purple, the passion, the purple, and once they fall in love…. *
A few of my favorite words (real and made up):
Luxuriate
Chiffonesse
and, for the modern take on the cover
Vegas.
bad54 – I’m so bad at these contests, I’ve failed 54 times.
What fun. I took it serious so tried to find a word to fit – kind of hard (pun intended). So I go with Fervor.
let’s go with the obvious…and channel my 18-year-old brother:
Satinbutt.
Ametryst
A third idea inspired by SandyH of using just a word (and I haven’t check to see if someone beat me too this) Flamboyant…since it does look like they are on water and using silk as a flotation device.
Impedimelt?
Because it looks like the sheets are melting their feet.
Muppetastic
the more I look at all that fluffy fabric, the more I’m reminded of muppets.
Satinalanche
Mauve-a-rama
which got me to thinking
‘mauve-yer-ass’ tee hee!
or, maybe something simple
Touched
Jaundiced
(I’m sorry, but that yellow back of his just kept catching my eye—even more so than the every-conceivable-shade-of-purple shown elsewhere… just seemed to make him that much more yellow)
Catchword: thirty52 (shades of purple)
Swaddled
Empurpled
Appolonia.
(too 1980s?)
Sherberotica!
Octopussy
I just really hope that’s HER bed, and not his. If it’s his bed, my word would have to be “GAY.”
Fingerbang
Rufflelicious!
regurgitate
It can refer to the cover or your reaction to it 🙂
Orgauzm!
patriotic
It looks a little like a flag to me or maybe he has a little flag?
It my fast scroll by all the other entries, I noticed purple-people-eater. I like that one!
swish-a-smooch-orama 🙂
mauvrosia
bootylicious
as in: all that frilly fabric must be bootylicious 🙂
I mean, really, it’s like a peacock and a dalmation had a baby then Cruella DeVille skinned it and made up her bed.
How about…
dapeacockcot
Or, just so noone has the wrong idea about this guy’s manhood:
dacockcot
chiffontercourse
So many good ones up there.
Shiny.
I’ve been watching a lot of Buffy re-runs lately.
Chiffontastic!
Satinic
fricKtion
Rugburn.
I feel like some of that material may or may not be tulle, in which case, who doesn’t love raspy netting chafing your sensitive bits?
Bubblebutt
I mean, look at it – the purple satin just emphasizes it more!
Another food metaphor…
Chiffonade
Y’know, I absolutely adore this cover. And I can’t figure out why – so! much! fabric! And I hate clinches, especially the on-the-floor type. And yet everytime I see this cover I drool a little. I loved her last cover, too – someone in her marketing department clearly has a direct line to my heart and enjoys tugging at it.
jayhjay and Mary G are my faves, for what it’s worth.