[LMB] TSK: Passage Cover Art (was: Sentence 8 guess wins)

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Lois McMaster Bujold" <lbujold at myinfmail.com>
> Lois-remarks bracketed by *** interspersed below.  We have Victoria,
> Paula, and Lois volleying here, so far.)
> >
> > Romances have various schools of cover art. A regency will always have
> > a woman in an empire waist gown posed artfully either with or without
>
> That used to be the convention, but the genre flattened out and the new
> covers for the rewritten to be s/l/e/a/z/i/e/r edgier books, often
> include more risque elements...
>
>
that's actually true.  romance covers are running low on the wardrobe 
budget, these days.  on the 'judge a book by the cover' method, one assumes 
that the less clothes on the cover the faster the protagonists lose their 
clothes.  since i don't like romance-porn, only romance-'twu wuv', i don't 
read those books.  ah well.  one woman's trash is another woman's steamy 
romance, i suppose.


>
> > make it look exciting and still do the "truth
> > in advertising" thing? Start with the story. Select a scene that
> > applies to the whole of the book and illustrate that.
>
> *** I believe what Victoria is trying to say here, is that if the cover
> indicates one sort of book within, and the reader bites into another,
> very different from his/her expectation, said reader will be pissed.
>
yes, very.  this isn't the story i signed up for, ma'am!


> As nearly as I can tell, readers want every book to be exactly the same,
> completely different, and each one better than all the others.
>
yes, that's exactly what we want.  if only other authers could figure it 
out. :)

> No problemo...  ***
>
really not?  yay!  so when did you say we can actually read this thing?
ziviya