Speaking of romance covers, it's time to vote in All About Romance's annual best and worst cover poll: [link]
Two that I nominated are in there--the one with the lovely lady archer under Alternate Reality and the great ghostly denim butt in the sky under Worst.
While there I went ahead and made a nomination for best of 2005: [link]
Every bookstore I go in has that one facing cover-out, often displayed prominently near the front of the store. I'm sure that's mostly because Jo Beverley is a popular and well-established author, but I'm sure the man doesn't hurt.....
The Catholic Church came out with a statement that the faithful should not read or buy
The DaVinci Code.
I know it's silly and hardly a great work of literature, but you'd think a two-thousand-year-old institution would have figured out the principle of "attractive evil" by now. How many people who had been ignoring it are now going to say, "Huh, I wonder what's got them so het up about this?" Plus the dependable "It must be true or they wouldn't be worried!" crowd.
I'm sure the authors are horrified at all the news stories and fuss.
If only they'd said "Don't read it -- it's not very good."
Might have worked better.
Might have worked better.
Maybe they are trying reverse psychology along the lines of "So THIS is what the church has been banning all these years? I haven't been missing a thing."
If only they'd said "Don't read it -- it's not very good."
Might have worked better.
That did work on me. Not the church saying it (heaven forfend any church take that kind of interest in me), but y'know, literate people saying it was crap. That, and my natural anti-bandwagon defenses.
The Catholic Church came out with a statement that the faithful should not read or buy The DaVinci Code.
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
NSM according to the author, which bugs.
Oh wow, that Rumor Has It cover is in pretty graphic bad taste, isn't it? Though the hilariously over-literal Be My Baby gets my vote. (Well, over-literal unless the author has very squicky Nabokovian aspirations...)
I guess they also need to be reminded that the book is a work of FICTION.
Organized religions are perhaps not the best judges of the difference between fiction and history...
Oh wow, that Rumor Has It cover is in pretty graphic bad taste, isn't it? Though the hilariously over-literal Be My Baby gets my vote. (Well, over-literal unless the author has very squicky Nabokovian aspirations...)
Oh wow, that Rumor Has It cover is in pretty graphic bad taste, isn't it? Though the hilariously over-literal Be My Baby gets my vote.
Yeah, I waffled between those two and the giant ghost butt before voting for the latter because I nominated it in the first place and wanted it to get props. Oh, and I considered voting for All Keyed Up because of the skanky be-mulleted guy.
I just hope that if/when my time comes, the cover art gods will be kind and give me something deserving of the Best ballot rather than the Worst. But I'll settle for no actual sex-having on the cover and getting the hero's uniform the right color.
