"Quell the rage that deeply seethes, the extremes of these devotions."

[greygirlbeast]

1. No idea why I'm using the cute Bjork icon the morning. I just couldn't seem to help myself.

2. Still happy about The Red Tree, A is for Alien, and "Galápagos" having all three landed on Locus Magazine's 2009 Recommended Reading List. It's always nice to know someone has noticed

Comments

Cover art

[monstermustdie]

On the bright side, weremonkey and I love the cover and interiors of Alabaster (we have copy # L). Naifeh is a personal favorite.

Re: Cover art

[greygirlbeast]

On the bright side, weremonkey and I love the cover and interiors of Alabaster (we have copy # L). Naifeh is a personal favorite.

Thank you. Yes. I am so very happy with the all the art Ted did for Alabaster.

Re: Cover art

[papersteven]

I didn't realize Alabaster came in a lettered edition. Was this not advertised or was I not paying attention?

Re: Cover art

[greygirlbeast]

I didn't realize Alabaster came in a lettered edition. Was this not advertised or was I not paying attention?

You know...now I am very fucking confused. The copy on my shelf is from the numbered edition, and Spooky can't recall, either. But if someone says they have "L"....

I'm going to look into this.

[criada]

I've got several novel drafts lying around that I pick at occasionally, and sadly, the urban fantasy one gets the least attention, because as much as I love the book, I don't want to be a Tramp Stamp writer. (And because I don't want to be like Jim Butcher, begging people to go read my high fantasy at the end of the better selling-urban books.)

[greygirlbeast]

I don't want to be a Tramp Stamp writer.

It's hard to imagine that anyone does. But I suppose there must be authors who don't mind being perceived that way. Mostly I look at this as marketing pandering to readers who respond positively to the visual cues presented (i.e., readers with very poor taste).

[criada]

In fairness, I will admit that I'm dependent on cover cues to find my guilty literary pleasure--old gothic romances. Without scantily clad women fleeing from houses with a single light in the window, I don't know where I'd be.

[greygirlbeast]

Without scantily clad women fleeing from houses with a single light in the window, I don't know where I'd be.

You could always scan a few pages of text....

[muneraven]

You know, I was attracted to the Patricia Briggs' covers because the main character was an auto mechanic, not because of the tats, lol. But that was early on in this trend. Now my eyes just skim right over this type of cover and I move on. I KNOW a book can't always be judged by its cover but when one is browsing for a new read without the benefit of recommendations or other good info one has to cull the herd somehow.

That being said, I don't hate the tramp stamp covers as much as those awful photo covers of "hunky" guys with terrible fake tattoos and a woman draped all over him. Where do they find models that bland? They are like human velveeta.

[greygirlbeast]

They are like human velveeta.

Sorry. The phrase "human velveeta" seems perfectly suited to the tramp-stamp covers, as well. So far as I'm concerned.

[muneraven]

Somehow the tramp stamp covers remind me more of that cheap processed American cheese food . . .the kind that they are too cheap to individually wrap, so it comes in a presliced, globby block. Each slice is supposed to be individual but it sure ain't easy to peel one away from another.

I seem to be into cheese today.

It may well be that I hate the photo-hunk covers more just because I'd rather look at generic female tramp-stamped behinds than photo-shopped male chests.

Sometimes I long for the old days when books were just covered in blue,, brown, or green cloth over cardboard and all you got was a title, author's name, and maybe a sketchy imprint of something in one corner of the front cover.

[greygirlbeast]

Sometimes I long for the old days when books were just covered in blue,, brown, or green cloth over cardboard and all you got was a title, author's name, and maybe a sketchy imprint of something in one corner of the front cover.

Yes, please.

[abbadie]

And I thought, "I sent those." But no, I'd not. I made the edits, back on December 16th, but I never actually typed them up and emailed them to Joshi. It is likely now too late. Fortunately, it was all very minor stuff. But it is a warning from me to me, to get back on the ball.

Oh gods, that just reminded me that I never did submit the piece I wrote for Veronica Cummer's To Fly By Night, the Craft of the Hedgewitch, which if I remember right, just closed its deadline around Candlemas -and I had it done a month ago, it just needed cleaning some typos! Damn damn damn. I need to get back on the ball too. Or a platypus to remind me of this stuff. Or something.

[greygirlbeast]

Or a platypus to remind me of this stuff.

My platypus is a useful monotreme.

[seph_ski]

I saw that video just this morning and practically held my breath hoping not to see the inappropriate covers of your books. Although I'll admit to the guilty pleasure of a trashy read now and then, I hadn't even heard of a lot of the books featured in the video. In defense of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series though, the back tattoo is a significant element of the story. But yes, the trend in covers is really disheartening, -especially- when used to push stories that don't really belong in that market! They're a major turn-off.

[greygirlbeast]

I saw that video just this morning and practically held my breath hoping not to see the inappropriate covers of your books.

I had the same reaction the first time I saw it.