Comments on: Cover Art Part 2

By: Mel K.

Mel K. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:14:08 +0000

LOL! I love a male torso on a cover. I usually buy the book.
Certain colors catch my eye too. Red, purple, pink, orange.

By: jamiesobrato

jamiesobrato — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:33:42 +0000

Anne, What the Editors Want would be an interesting blog topic… Will see what I can come up with. Thanks for the idea.

I agree, Alison is dreamy.

And Dawn, that’s hilarious about the one click buy of all those torso covers! Thanks for the link. Some of those guys’ torsos are so cut they look more like comic book drawings than real humans.

By: Dawn B.

Dawn B. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:27:02 +0000

What usually draws me to a (romance) cover is a well placed title with some piece of individuality rather than an obvious reused clutch cover.

Blaze has definately gotten the message about naked male torso. For Example: http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/120/313/400000000000000120313_s4.jpg

6 books, 1 shirted male.

The Blazes I buy mostly either while subscriber or Author Name recognition (and occasionally series if I liked the previous: See Red Letter Nights).

By: Anne Calhoun

Anne Calhoun — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:43:01 +0000

Oh, now that’s interesting. I’ll keep that in mind the next time I’m browsing the Blazes. I did see several shirtless covers this time around, including two that were so identical (Elle Kennedy’s and Alison Kent’s) that I put them side by side to make sure they weren’t the same guy. Nope. Just the same shirtless pose. Yum. FWIW, I bought the books for very specific reasons (I read all the first Blazes like entrails or tarot cards in the hopes of divining What The Editors Want and I love Alison Kent’s books) so the cover didn’t matter.