I just put it on hold at the library, Sumi!
Annual best/worst ballot for romance covers is up: [link]
I know two of the authors who have books in the "worst" category this year and, um, voted for one of them, even though some people on my local RWA loop are complaining about the "focus on the negative" of having a Worst Cover category. I don't see the issue, because it's not like the authors are designing the covers, or that the quality of what's on the cover is any reflection of what's inside--if anything, I think it's good to call the industry out on images that turn readers off.
Annual best/worst ballot for romance covers is up:
So, every category except the "Worst cover" is one in which you choose the "best" cover, right?
I mis-read it at first, thinking that ALL the categories were "Worst cover" within their own genre, and I thought, "Some of these covers are actually good -- what's with all the hate?" But now it makes sense.
And -- in the "Worst" category there's a book called "Big Spankable Asses" -- if I'm not mistaken, didn't our very own Amy write the jacket copy for that?
(Also in the "Worst" category -- what's so wrong with the cover of "Kink"? I'm not asking b/c of my own proclivities; it's just -- the book is *about kink*! Wouldn't flowers and bluebirds be a misleading cover? I thought the cover was perfectly appropriate and actually tasteful, given what it *could* have been.)
Amy, I noticed that one you were writing cover copy for is in the "worst" category. So ... consistency between cover and content counts?
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what's so wrong with the cover of "Kink"?
For me, it's not the content, it's the layout - that pose is not sexy. That font is not sexy. I assume the word "kink" is supposed to look phallic, but to me the whole thing just looks awkward. So unless the book is aimed at the Uncomfortable Cramp In My Hamstring fetishists...yeah, I don't think it works.
Still, my personal vote for would have to go to "Mommy For A Minute" for Extreme Crimes Against Airbrushing.
(Also in the "Worst" category -- what's so wrong with the cover of "Kink"? I'm not asking b/c of my own proclivities; it's just -- the book is *about kink*! Wouldn't flowers and bluebirds be a misleading cover? I thought the cover was perfectly appropriate and actually tasteful, given what it *could* have been.)
Yeah, that's not the one I voted for. I voted for "What She Craves," because A) I think it's an ugly image, and B) that book is Regency erotica, and I don't think it should be all that difficult to come up with an image that's both erotic and historical. My imagination is quite good at such combos, f'rinstance.
"Mommy For a Minute" was my second choice. Those smarmy facial expressions, that giant foam finger...
B) that book is Regency erotica
Dude, seriously?? Um, yeah. That cover does not reflect that.
See, I'd pick "It Happened One Wedding" (bad, cheesy airbrushing!) or possibly "Bustin'" (dorky!).
Bustin' was totally the worst! Although the one with the crazy smooshed breast implant almost got me.
