Do you choose a book by its cover? What do you hope will be inside a book when you see what’s on the outside? If the main characters are featured on the cover of a book you’re reading, is that how you envision them, or do you keep your own version of what they look like, unswayed by anything on the cover?
Some covers plunge us straight into lust. Here’s the latest from Tess MacKall, the second in her scorching hot series about Bad Boy Gabriel. Even as we drool over those chiseled abs and pumped up biceps, we’re invited to grace the body with our favorite face (not to mention gun?) and create our very own personal fantasy. Yum! 
Here’s a cover that draws us immediately into the mood and opulent surroundings of the heroine’s Victorian world - and, to me, one that matches the richly textured voice of its talented author, MC Halliday. And by the way, if luster and softness are part of what you seek when you pick up a book, you might like to stop by the Midnight Seductions Yahoo Group, where erotic poet R. Paul Sardanas posted poems and chatted with us yesterday afternoon.
Sometimes you have to read the fine print. I can hardly wait for the upcoming May 1 release of Quillia Rain’s erotic romance and suspense combo, In a Lover’s Silence. Very interesting file she’s carrying there!
I totally love my new cover from Freya’s Bower for my forthcoming romantic suspense Nadja’s Literary Cappuccino. Those faces peering out at us are tender and almost innocent, but dark times lie ahead in the steamy haze. It’s still a couple months till the book comes out, so here’s a sneak preview:
It all seems simple enough: Ukrainian immigrant Nadja Petrov is determined to hold on to her thriving new coffee shop, Nadja's Literary Cappuccino, and Java Beans District Rep Kevin Langley is equally determined to move into town with a Java Beans franchise and run her out of business. She scopes him out, he keeps a watchful eye on her, and the sparring begins. But there are other players involved, and the web of intrigue soon threatens Nadja, her shop and her aunt as well as Kevin, his franchise and his son. Within this caldron simmers a sexual attraction between Nadja and Kevin that catapults them to overcome their fears of intimacy and commitment. Their lovemaking is tender and raw. Can their love survive tragedy, doubts and fire?
Some covers plunge us straight into lust. Here’s the latest from Tess MacKall, the second in her scorching hot series about Bad Boy Gabriel. Even as we drool over those chiseled abs and pumped up biceps, we’re invited to grace the body with our favorite face (not to mention gun?) and create our very own personal fantasy. Yum! Here’s a cover that draws us immediately into the mood and opulent surroundings of the heroine’s Victorian world - and, to me, one that matches the richly textured voice of its talented author, MC Halliday. And by the way, if luster and softness are part of what you seek when you pick up a book, you might like to stop by the Midnight Seductions Yahoo Group, where erotic poet R. Paul Sardanas posted poems and chatted with us yesterday afternoon.
Sometimes you have to read the fine print. I can hardly wait for the upcoming May 1 release of Quillia Rain’s erotic romance and suspense combo, In a Lover’s Silence. Very interesting file she’s carrying there!
I totally love my new cover from Freya’s Bower for my forthcoming romantic suspense Nadja’s Literary Cappuccino. Those faces peering out at us are tender and almost innocent, but dark times lie ahead in the steamy haze. It’s still a couple months till the book comes out, so here’s a sneak preview:
It all seems simple enough: Ukrainian immigrant Nadja Petrov is determined to hold on to her thriving new coffee shop, Nadja's Literary Cappuccino, and Java Beans District Rep Kevin Langley is equally determined to move into town with a Java Beans franchise and run her out of business. She scopes him out, he keeps a watchful eye on her, and the sparring begins. But there are other players involved, and the web of intrigue soon threatens Nadja, her shop and her aunt as well as Kevin, his franchise and his son. Within this caldron simmers a sexual attraction between Nadja and Kevin that catapults them to overcome their fears of intimacy and commitment. Their lovemaking is tender and raw. Can their love survive tragedy, doubts and fire?
See you next month!
Amanda
8 comments:
I've read some wonderful books with awful covers, so I try not to judge.
That said, I prefer to get books with attractive covers. Sometimes I'm in the mood for hot, so I'll look for shirtless guys, and other times I'll be in the mood for something else.
It all depends, and if I like the author I'll buy the book no matter what the cover looks like.
As an authors whose covere for "Cold Scheme" won the Covey Cover Award for January 2008, I have to say I'm a sucker for a good cover. Nine out of ten times I pick up a book off a store shelf based on its cover.
I think cover's very important. It's basically your ambassador to the reader out there so it has to...be the kind that represents 'putting your best foot forward.' And I might even say that the cover influences my 'reader's approach' to the book - even if the story doesn't prove to appeal to my taste or proves to be less interesting than I expected, its cover will raise a notch its interest in my eyes. I noticed this when I talk about books I read and have them in front of me - the cover definitely polarizes a great deal how I feel about the content of the book. Yeah, I know - I'm odd but then aren't we all a little...strange...:) Best and all, Amanda - Edita
http://www.editapetrick.net
I admit, I'm all about the cover! The hotter, the better! And the more likely I am to pick up the book, or click on the link if it's an ebook, and read the blurb!
*hugs*
Paige
Thanks, all!
Agree, Cassandra, sometimes great book don't have great covers. I'll probably keep looking the book over if I either know the author or am really hooked by the blurb.
Edita, thanks for stopping by, and congrats on the Covey Award!!!!
Agree, Paige - if hot is what I'm in the mood for, the cover will sure help me figure that out!
Amanda
I love cover art so I'm very disappointed when the cover doesn't match the story. It's one reason I love being an ebook author - we have much more say over our cover art than most print sisters do. But it is crucial to click with your artist. If they can't put your vision into print, then it can be very frustrating. Finding a cover artist you love is almost like finding that on special SO in your life.
As for picking just one favorite? Sorry, can't do. Some of the old "clinch" covers have absolutely beautiful men, some have overblown heriones. Some have the wrong herione. Saw one of those recently. If you went by the descriptions in the book, the hero was in a clinch with his mother... ewww! All it needed was a change of hair color and all would have been cool. Ah well, miscommunication can happen anywhere, I suppose.
Morgan O'Reilly
http://www.themorgandiaries.blogspot.com
The cover is always the first thing that draws me to a book. If it's HOT, I'll take a look at the blurb and excerpt.
I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but I do ...sometimes.
I think it's great when I look at a cover and then read the words inside and find that the cover somewhat matches or somehow meets my expectations. A cover should give us a glimpse of what is to come.
No matter what the cover will always be something that the reader will see. Some covers have been bad with some good books.
I look forward to getting my cover when I have a book coming out...
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