BEST COVER EVER!
Jan242012
Brace yourselves . . .
Mollie says the title means “Kissed By All the Good Spirits.”
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of twenty-one novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives on the Ohio River where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.
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62 Comments to 'BEST COVER EVER!'
On January 24, 2012 at 4:23 pm Jane said...
Hee! Ok, I give up. Which book is it?
On January 24, 2012 at 4:28 pm Jenny said...
Mouse over the cover (don’t want to give it away for people trying to guess).
On January 24, 2012 at 4:30 pm Jane said...
I guess I can see that. Love the different sensibility on the European covers. Also, cake is never a bad thing.
On January 25, 2012 at 3:06 pm Kate George said...
I’m so proud of myself – I knew right away which book it was! I suppose that means I spend too much time re-reading instead of doing things… like writing…
On January 24, 2012 at 4:24 pm Supernatural Betty/ J.K. Mahal said...
Now I know what I’m going to get when I go to Germany this summer. I LOVE this!
On January 24, 2012 at 4:30 pm Anne V said...
what is this? wild ride? is that a demon? why isn’t it a waffle?
On January 24, 2012 at 4:38 pm Jenny said...
Because the cupcake is funnier.
You know, if we ever do a sequel, we’re gonna need cupcake demons.
On January 24, 2012 at 4:42 pm JulieB said...
Please! YES!
On January 24, 2012 at 4:50 pm McB said...
Well you will now! TOO FUNNY. LMAO here.
On January 25, 2012 at 4:35 pm Deborah Blake said...
I love this cover so much, I could eat it! (For a change, that actually makes sense.)
On January 25, 2012 at 11:00 pm Micki said...
OMG, cupcakes are the devil’s food. (pause) Wah-hah-hah-hah! Pun unintended, but sometimes I kill myself!
On January 24, 2012 at 4:42 pm JulieB said...
Wunderbar!
On January 24, 2012 at 5:01 pm Mel said...
Well, everything is better with cupcakes…even vampire cupcakes. Cupcake demons would be awesome…they bite back!
On January 24, 2012 at 5:27 pm Lola said...
Good Spirits Always Kiss Me Goodnight?
On January 24, 2012 at 8:07 pm ann g said...
It really is the best cover in the history of history! LOL! But demon cupcakes!?! I dont know…I’m still recovering from the teddy bears!
On January 24, 2012 at 5:27 pm colognegrrl said...
Yay! They finally came up with a smart title for one of your books! It’s even a nice pun because “Von allen guten Geistern verlassen” is a German expression (“Left by all the good spirits/ghosts”) meaning somebody really lost his mind. Usually you can’t even guess which book they translated because the titles are so exchangeable, for instance the German title for “Maybe This Time” translates “To Bed without a Kiss”.
On January 24, 2012 at 8:34 pm Eve said...
thanks for the knowledge! now if only someone would spell out how to pronounce that ^^…..
On January 25, 2012 at 3:13 am colognegrrl said...
Oh, you just pronounce it like it’s spelled ;o)
On January 25, 2012 at 9:28 am German Chocolate Betty said...
Okay, @colognegrrl, for you and me it may be obvious, for others not so.
So, @Eve and all others: it sounds like this (more or less):
(von) (allen) (guten) (Geistern) (geküsst)
fun ahl-en goo-tenn gai-stern geh-coo-st.
(The umlaut — dots over the “u” — in “geküsst” has no equivalent sound in English, but this would get you to “understandable” with most Germans…!)
On January 25, 2012 at 9:23 am German Chocolate Betty said...
Yeah, this one’s pretty good — most of the time when they create the German titles, be they for books or films, they come up with totally suck-y ones, like colognegrrl points out. This one’s not too bad.
On January 25, 2012 at 12:32 pm Susan D said...
Thanks for the original expression, Colognegrrl. I felt sure it wasn’t just plucked out of the air.
On January 24, 2012 at 6:22 pm robena grant said...
I love this. It made me smile, and yeah I guessed right. I’d love a copy so I could leave the book on the coffee table and grin every time I walked past it.
Now you have to write a cupcake book. Set in NYC’s westside, featuring Bob’s guy as a sushi chef (’cause he’s good with knives and chopping things) and have him own the restaurant next door, and your gal would be the bakery chef, all pink icing and sprinkles and stuff. And she’d hate the fish guts smell and he’d hate all the sweetness, and….
On January 25, 2012 at 4:36 pm Deborah Blake said...
Yes! I vote for Robena’s idea!!! (And cupcakes, of course.)
On January 29, 2012 at 8:33 pm Elizabeth said...
YOU should write a book! great ideas!
On January 24, 2012 at 6:44 pm Carrie said...
That. Is. Awesome.
On January 24, 2012 at 6:44 pm jackie said...
Robena, you obviously have the book almost written. You can dedicate it to Jenny and Bob and the editoer who chose the book cover….
On January 25, 2012 at 9:01 pm robena grant said...
Ha ha. Thank you, Jackie.
On January 24, 2012 at 7:31 pm CrankyOtter said...
Even the Cakewrecks lady would like that cupcake. Adorable cupcake minion!
On January 25, 2012 at 1:43 am Julie said...
Oh I love the CakeWreck people!
(Her name is JEN!!!)
On January 25, 2012 at 10:11 pm Muria said...
Love Cakewrecks! Actually, it’s not cupcakes Jen dislikes. It’s the CupCake Cakes (CCC’s *patooie*) that she scorns, mostly because of the ridiculous amounts of frosting on top, plus the the fact that they glue the cupcakes to the board with more frosting, so the point of cupcakes (make it easier to neatly eat a piece of cake) is completely ruined by the CCC presentation. I may have read her opinions on CCC’s a few times. I’m sure this cupcake would be completely acceptable (especially since it’s so awesome! Great call by the German publisher).
On January 24, 2012 at 8:32 pm Eve said...
lol that cover has nothing to do with the book but soooo cute. also, proves that europeans are weird because their titles are super long (I can say that, I was born over there)
On January 24, 2012 at 9:33 pm caitlin said...
ha! love it!
On January 24, 2012 at 9:36 pm Thea said...
Bouyant and innocent and funny, that cover goes a long way in aiding my recovery from The Rant and aftermath. Thank you so much for the well-timed silly. Or should I thank Europe?
What’s Bob’s reaction to having his name next to that extravagant creature?
On January 24, 2012 at 9:51 pm Jenny said...
Haven’t heard from him yet. He’s probably snarling because the cupcake doesn’t have an Uzi.
On January 26, 2012 at 5:38 am German Chocolate Betty said...
Maybe not an Uzi, but it does have fangs! ;>
On January 25, 2012 at 7:16 am Allie said...
What REALLY cracks me up is that it has that same style as your reissues–you know, phone, car, dog, EVIL VAMPIRE CUPCAKE.
On January 25, 2012 at 10:17 am Jenny said...
That’s true, I hadn’t seen that. Although we didn’t find anything nearly as good as the EVIL CUPCAKE.
On January 25, 2012 at 12:35 pm Susan D said...
Wouldn’t that be Devil’s Food Cupcake?
On January 25, 2012 at 11:07 pm Micki said...
LOL, GMTA. I should read the comments before I post!
On January 25, 2012 at 7:45 am LSG said...
Love it! A true fit to the book!
On January 25, 2012 at 7:53 am Marijane Diodati said...
Very, ah, creative …I love that the vampire is cross-eyed! It must be hard to find victims. Given the latest fixation with vampires, are people bitten by vampires still considered victims?
The cover is pretty wild. Can you imagine it on display in bookstores?
Thanks for the laugh!
On January 25, 2012 at 9:32 am German Chocolate Betty said...
What’s really, really funny about this is that the Germans have only just (in the last few years) really discovered cupcakes. Halloween only started to catch on about 10 years ago or so. I can still remember the first time I saw a small display of Halloween stuff at KaDeWe in Berlin (in 2000…) and being surprised. I had to schlep cupcake pans and the little paper cups over from the States — now you can buy them in most supermarkets…
So much for globalization!
On January 25, 2012 at 10:18 am Jenny said...
Well, god knows, it’s about time we gave the rest of the world something good.
On January 25, 2012 at 1:45 pm colognegrrl said...
with lots of calories, too.
On January 25, 2012 at 12:07 pm Sure Thing said...
Awesome. Why wait for the translation?
Get SMP to contract *all* your covers to them to begin with. 
that’s if they’ve done an equally excellent job with the other books.
On January 25, 2012 at 2:05 pm colognegrrl said...
No, they haven’t – at least not with the titles.
On January 26, 2012 at 12:12 pm Sure Thing said...
Now that Mollie translated it, I have to agree with you.
On January 25, 2012 at 1:33 pm Skye said...
I knew enough German to infer, but still, “good” spirits? Sure ….
Other than that, I adore the cover and the title. I think you need to have that book cover reissued in the US. Doesn’t matter what for, just that the book has that cover.
On January 25, 2012 at 3:10 pm Kate George said...
Yum. I’d probably eat the book.
On January 25, 2012 at 3:11 pm Becke Martin/Davis said...
I can tell right away what book it is because the title of the image spells it out. Love the book and LOVE this cover!!!
On January 25, 2012 at 3:36 pm Egads said...
I think the monkey at the top of the page has some competition now. If I saw that on a cover, I’d have to pick the book up.
On January 25, 2012 at 5:13 pm Jen said...
I love it! Jenny Cruise, cupcakes and bats! <3
On January 25, 2012 at 5:19 pm Louise said...
That’s a really demented cup cake
And an excellent cover. Knowing the German sense of humour this could cover the other book as well. Cup Cake carrying Uzi
On January 25, 2012 at 6:54 pm Tina Leonard said...
It IS the best cover ever! So cute! I want one, and I don’t read German.
I loved this book. You’re the only writer who can make a crow lovable.
On January 25, 2012 at 6:55 pm Corinne said...
That’s just awesome. Until I noticed Bob’s name on the book, I was thinking “Welcome to Temptation” (Bat country!).
On January 25, 2012 at 11:05 pm tickled_pink_scorpio said...
See, I was gonna go with Agnes and the Hitman because of the cupcake but then again, I don’t read a lick of German.
On January 26, 2012 at 12:43 am Margie said...
Eat your idols.
On January 26, 2012 at 2:54 am Slave Driver said...
Great. It’s almost 1 am and now I want a cupcake. Thanks, Crusie. Just thanks…
On January 26, 2012 at 3:17 pm Jenny said...
I know, I know. I’ve been thinking about cake ever since I saw it.
On January 26, 2012 at 10:56 am Brussel Sprout said...
I made espresso and cappuccino cupcakes this weekend. Very popular. But they were not vampire cupcakes…next time, though, they could be…
On January 26, 2012 at 11:38 am Marchelle said...
I love the cover and the book. My nephew is heading to Germany in March. I’m going to have him buy me a copy. Thanks for uplifing a dreary day.
On January 27, 2012 at 1:20 pm Carol Anne said...
Love the cover and want the book.