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Friday, March 28, 2008

Very Serious Eye Candy Poll!

You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but if you’re anything like me, you might buy one for the eye candy on the front of it. I LOVE a hot cover, and sometimes when I’m reading, I’ll flip back to the cover to enhance my visual of the characters. Do you ever do that?

So in the name of research…(romance writers get to call a lot of fun stuff “research”)…what kind of eye candy do you like your book covers to have? I wouldn’t want to ask you to make an uninformed decision, so here are a few examples:

Do you like smolderin’ shoulders?

Or smokin’ abs?

Are you a chest chick?

A leg lady?

A back babe?

A butt bandit?

Do you love the ladies?


Or do you just want to see some lovin’?

Or is it all good????

Warning: Too much eye candy won’t rot your teeth, but if what my grandma said is true, it might make you go blind.

~Wendi Darlin

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28 comments:

Jambrea said...

I really like LA Day's covers. VERY HOT!!!! They Both Belong to me is nice!!! Cowboy Games is good too. :)

LA Day said...

Great post, Wendi. Thanks for using my covers. The good news is I'm 42 and I'm not blind yet but I might need glasses soon.

Thanks Jambrea!

Wendi said...

Thanks, Jambrea! I do love a hot set of abs. :) And, LA, I feel your pain, every trip to the eye doctor I hear my grandma's warning. :)

Thanks for playing along today!

Wendi Darlin

Tess MacKall said...

Hell I'm not going blind and my teeth are all there. I love it all. Never could answer that question: "What's the first thing you notice about a man?" My basic answer was, "depends from what angle and is he coming or going?" ROFLMAO.

AWWWWW.....My Gabriel cover. I'm sooo going to miss seeing him staring back at me. Of course you know with the closing of Dark Eden I am putting Gabe on the shelf for a while. Need to find him another home so I can finish the series. In the meantime though, he will be sitting here on our blog so I can always come back and take a sneak peak.

Thanks for featuring my babe Gabe!

AnneMarie Roberts said...

Ah yes, got to love eye candy...delish! Man have covers come a long waayyyy...I think winding up with glasses is a small price to pay...teehee~

Huggers

Wendi said...

Tess, we definitely need to keep Gabe around as long as we can. *wink* Best of luck finding him a new home.
And AnneMarie, it's a small price indeed! :D

Thanks for stopping by!

Wendi Darlin

Anonymous said...

OKay. My Eyeballs have just exploded. SNORT. Sorry for the scary visual. LOL. Thanks for featuring One Dependable Man (back) and Tempting Tess (shoulders) but honey, I've gotta agree with Tess. It depends one which direction I'm looking. Abs,chest,butt, etc. I love a hot man on a cover!!!

Love this post! Hugs!

Regina Carlysle said...

Oops. That was my comment. Accidentally did the anonymous thingy. My bad.

Rita/Regina

Saroya said...

I love to look at muscle men, but a man who looks a little more natural is what I like. Pretty woman but no skinny women, more naturally average size, and all the rest, hair, lips, unless of course they are from another planet

Lover of Books said...

I am a back babe. lol But I'll take the chest too. lol Oh, well. :) All these books look good! :)

Lover of Books said...

opps I forgot to leave my name Krista. lol But yeah again definitely a back babe. :)

Krista

Wendi said...

Rita, that's quite a visual! LOL!!! The cover gods have definitely been on your side, my friend!

Saroya, do you like them au naturale, too???? ;)

Krista, I love a good strong back, too....yumm!

Thanks so much for playing along!!!

Wendi Darlin

judy said...

My My!! That was quite alot of very enlightening eye candy!! I already wear glasses, just hoping I don't go blind. Great covers, all of them!!

Savannah Chase said...

i love them all, i cant pick one....such great covers.....

Cathy said...

I'm an upper body babe, so ripped shoulders, arms and abs, totally works for me.

Sascha Illyvich, erotica romance writer and real estate investor said...

GOtta go with an ass for me, a nice female one ;)

Any of you ever buy books with hot covers only to be disappointed later on?

Sascha

Wendi said...

Sascha, yes! But at least I have the eye candy. ;)

Judy, if I'm not blind yet, I think you're safe. :D

Cathy, we have the same taste indeed!

Savannah, they're all nice aren't they?

Wendi Darlin

Anonymous said...

My fav is the "They Both Belong to Me" cover. You get it all!!

Shelley~

Cassidy McKay said...

Give me them allllllllll! They're ALL MINE!!

OK, I'll just go quietly blind, then. :P

Cassidy

Wendi said...

Shelley, it is definitely ALL good!

Cassidy, you can lead me, or I can lead you...the blind leading the... I think you know the rest! LOL!!

Thanks for playing along. I love all the fun people who hang out around here. :)

Wendi Darlin

Cynthya said...

I'm in the "it's all good" camp. I do like sexy shoulders, but I'll look at it all. :)

Amy said...

I like the abs. And I'm a sucker for strong, well-defined but not nasty overblown ARMS.

Wendi said...

Cynthya and Amy, I have to say, you ladies have exquisite taste!! ;) Thanks for stopping by!

Wendi Darlin

Cassandra Gold said...

I like all kinds of covers. Most covers w/half-naked guys catch my attention, but I also like covers with fully clothed people or with facial close-ups.

The only thing I HATE is when the people on the cover look nothing at all like the people in the book. For instance, if the cover has a ripped blond guy on it, the hero had better not be a slim dark-haired guy, or I get annoyed. Since I'm not a very visual person, the covers help me picture the people.

Dee Dawning said...

Hi Wendi, Great job. Personally I like the last two covers. LOL, wink

Wendi said...

Cassandra, I agree with you COMPLETELY!!! When I turned in info to my cover artist for Cowboy Games, I described Gavin to her and said, "If you can't find a model that matches this description, please just use a really hot torso shot." I guess she couldn't find anyone as hot as my Gavin, and I'm not complaining a bit. :)

Yes, Dee, those last two are definitely hot. *wink*

Wendi Darlin

Jill James said...

I like me some lovin'. I want to see the couple and imagine them in love as I'm reading the book.

Enjoyed all the eye candy.

Wendi said...

Thanks, for stopping in, Jill! Lovin' is nice...very...very...nice. :D

Wendi Darlin