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[Edited to Add] More about the fall of clinch, the rise of man-titty and those wtf cartoon covers at dear author.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Cover Quizz
Jana at Romancing the Blog is one of many bloggers who have been discussing covers recently. I thought we might try a small and very unscientific experiment. I have gleaned the first standard new release cover shown on the websites of 5 top erotic romance epublishers, cropped to obscure publisher name and use here only as a basis for discussion and commentary. Let's see whose is most appealing to our non-random sample of completely biassed observers. Just reply ranking them from 1 to 5 (1 being the best). And can you guess the publisher? (no peeking). To my eyes most look rather similar in both content and style?
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[Edited to Add] More about the fall of clinch, the rise of man-titty and those wtf cartoon covers at dear author.
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[Edited to Add] More about the fall of clinch, the rise of man-titty and those wtf cartoon covers at dear author.
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7 comments:
Here's mine. *g*
1. 3 - Loose ID
2. 5 - Samhain
3. 2 - Not a clue
4. 4 - Not a clue
5. 1 - EC
Thanks for playing :)
I'm not playing, because a) I recognise one of those anyway, and b) as we all know, I'm slightly biased in preferred subject matter and thus think that the Loose Id m/m is Teh Hawt for reasons that are not purely connected with the quality of the art.
3,2,1,4,5
And as a man I have no idea at all who any of the publishers are or what any of this is about.
I stumbled across your blog purely by chance.
I am, however, aware of the discussions concerning crap cover art and - let's face it - some of it is bloody awful.
Regards,
M.
I've commented to the powers that be that the LI covers have been pretty damn good lately. I mean I might be a bit biased cause I think mine looks smashing :)
I'm going to suggest 4=cobblestone, 2=LSB
Um . . . I don't like any of them, really. The best of the lot, from my perspective, is #2, but you have to peer awfully closely in order to figure out what the background image is.
My prefer:
3 - Loose Id (Croco Design)
2 - Liquid Silver Books
5 - Samhain Publishing (Anne Cain)
1 - Ellora's Cave
4 - Changeling Press
I think covers are really important. I love the work by Anne Cain, I think her style is unique. I also like Croco Design, H. Rose Meloche (wonderful cover for Torquere Press), P.L. Nunn (mostly Loose Id), Scott Carpenter.
And sometimes I bought a book cause I live its cover...
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