Here’s the Korean cover for Strange Bedpersons. They got it mostly right, the cat, the red hair. I don’t remember the raking leaves part, but I still like it:

But the real reason I put up another post was to give you the full size good quality jpg for Tentacion (you’ll have to click […]

Speaking of foreign bookcovers, here’s Welcome to Temptation in Spain. She’s thin, but she’s not bony. Of course, she’s not Sophie, either, except for the red dress. I wish I could find the French Canadian version of WTT. It had the red dress, too. A red chiffon […]

This post is to continue the discussion on the previous one, but it was also inspired by the bookcover I got in the mail today for the Spanish edition of Bet Me:

Min has hips. Not skinny, mudflap girl, cartoon romance heroine non-hips, but HIPS. Okay, they could have been even bigger, probably should […]

Dove has just brought out a new line of products and I’m going to be buying them, probably by the case. The line is called “Pro-Age” in a reaction to the implied criticism in “anti-age” products, which pretty much tells you that age is bad, tough luck for you that you can’t avoid it […]

This is a fast post because this is really just a continuation of the previous post, but I do want to ask this:
A cover should reflect the book so a buyer knows what she or he is buying. In anything.
We already have a shorthand of kind because publishers put the same kind of cover […]

There’s a huge hoo-ra (not Hoo Ha) going on right now about rape in romance, spurred by a book whose title I will not mention because I’ve never read it and neither, I think, have a lot of the people who are outraged by it. What they’re outraged by is the apparent imminent […]

I will post a new blog, I swear, but in the meantime something keeps locking up the blog on the last one. I’m assuming it’s Bob’s post.
Here’s hoping this fixes the problem.

I’ve been working on the Fun Book on Sundays, and I ran into a snag because my hero, who is supernaturally irresistible (stick with me, it works) sleeps with at least twelve women before he goes to bed with the heroine. That’s believable given his character, but here’s the kicker: my heroine won’t sleep […]

People keep asking for author photos. Can’t my work just speak for itself? Evidently not.
But I take a really awful photo. Or maybe I look like that and I’m just deep in denial. When I got my new computer (I loooooooooooove my new computer) it came with the iSight camera built […]

I’m in Boston, having just finished two days at the Popular Culture Conference, my time travel back to academic life, and I have enjoyed it immensely, probably because I’m not worried about tenure or sitting on a committee. Or maybe it was because it’s the Pop Culture Conference, the best national academic conference to […]