Romance is slowly shifting to more and more hc first runs. Don't know about horror, which I don't read. (Don't have numbers, either, but hey.)
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
P.M. Marc - Mar 08, 2004 4:49:08 pm PST #1156 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
amych - Mar 08, 2004 4:50:13 pm PST #1157 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
(plei, you home? If so, get on AIM)
Micole - Mar 08, 2004 4:54:06 pm PST #1158 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Romance is shifting to hc for proven sellers, but hasn't gotten to the point of publishing midlist or first-time authors in hc.
Betsy HP - Mar 08, 2004 5:00:33 pm PST #1159 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It's a big deal within the romance-writing community when you move to hardcover. And angsty -- if your sales don't justify the move, you may be dropped entirely.
meara - Mar 08, 2004 5:31:02 pm PST #1160 of 10002
Yeah, the guy in Crazy for You is so creepy-real.
YES. I found it creepy because it was so realistic and gradual and justified. Usually in books, stalkers are weird freaks with no rhyme or reason, just scary threatening serial killers. This was too real. Kinda killed the rest of the book for me.
I read Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce last night, and found it to be eminently readable
Not sure which that is, Erin, but she's a cute YA writer. I loved the Alanna books when I was 11, though they're not quite as good now, I was even more impressed with her latest quartet about Keladry. Cute stuff. Definitely YA, but still.
deborah grabien - Mar 08, 2004 10:27:34 pm PST #1161 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
And suddenly "There's a Bimbo on the cover of my book" (filk by Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff) is going through my head....
Beyond bimbo. Mave of Connacht in pink armour, having her back licked by a raven-haired studly guy who apparently is supposed to be Connal of Ulster. So much for the Cycles of Oisin - they gave it a bodice ripper cover. I have nothing against bodice rippers, even though I don't read them, but the point is, the book wasn't a bodice ripper.
Around the house, the Bantam cover is affectionately-derisively known as Pink Sonia.
Katerina Bee - Mar 09, 2004 7:24:49 am PST #1162 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
And suddenly "There's a Bimbo on the cover of my book" (filk by Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff) is going through my head....
Ooh! Full lyrics, pretty please?
Pink Sonia. Hahahahaha. Must click over to Amazon and see this for myself.
deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2004 8:59:45 am PST #1163 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Katerina, it's here.
Scroll down the page to Fire Queen. What you can't tell onscreen is that the front cover is a two part; the outer is a frame, which lifts to reveal the full Pink Sonia horror within.
Pink armour. I kid you not.
Thirty. thousand. dollars. I saw the cover and thought I ought to spend thirty nine cents for a bullet to shoot the artist with....
Katerina Bee - Mar 09, 2004 9:27:10 am PST #1164 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Pink Sonia! Tee hee hee. You simply must add a full image of thirty! THOUSAND! dollars!!! worth of pink armour to your site. I had no idea that being a crap cover artist could pay so well.
(and now I'm jealous)
Strix - Mar 09, 2004 10:09:40 am PST #1165 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah, that's the cover I got when I got your book from the library.
I was...startled.