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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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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Toddson - Apr 30, 2008 9:25:03 am PDT #5566 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jessica - Apr 30, 2008 9:30:16 am PDT #5567 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2008 9:31:43 am PDT #5568 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Still, my personal vote for would have to go to "Mommy For A Minute" for Extreme Crimes Against Airbrushing.
AND giant foam finger!
Susan W. - Apr 30, 2008 9:31:47 am PDT #5569 of 28344
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
(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.
Susan W. - Apr 30, 2008 9:33:26 am PDT #5570 of 28344
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
"Mommy For a Minute" was my second choice. Those smarmy facial expressions, that giant foam finger...
Jessica - Apr 30, 2008 9:33:57 am PDT #5571 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
B) that book is Regency erotica
Dude, seriously?? Um, yeah. That cover does not reflect that.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2008 9:33:58 am PDT #5572 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
See, I'd pick "It Happened One Wedding" (bad, cheesy airbrushing!) or possibly "Bustin'" (dorky!).
Jesse - Apr 30, 2008 9:44:53 am PDT #5573 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Bustin' was totally the worst! Although the one with the crazy smooshed breast implant almost got me.
Pix - Apr 30, 2008 12:48:00 pm PDT #5574 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Book lovers, I need hospital book reads. I'm looking for mysteries with good plots and interesting characters. Easy reads for my convalescence. To give you a sense of my tastes, I've read and loved all of Elizabeth George, the alphabet mysteries, the Mary Russell and other series by that author, most of Patricia Cornwall, Agatha Christie, and the series that became Bones, though I found the books dry compared to the TV show. Help a girl out?
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2008 12:59:30 pm PDT #5575 of 28344
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the series that became Bones, though I found the books dry compared to the TV show
Which seems weirdly appropriate, considering (generalizations derived from TV show only) Brennan-as-author-avatar on her own isn't as interesting as Brennan surrounded by her cronies.