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Happily Ever After cover

7/12/2012

 
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And a very nice one at that! Alessia Brio went with one of my image suggestions, and the simple intimacy of it goes well with the story in my opinion.

At Torquere Press, we get the opportunity to give suggestions to the cover artist. It's sometimes difficult for me to help the cover artist, though. There's a point on the cover art request where you're supposed to describe your main characters (just so you don't get a blond man on the cover when both of your characters are dark-haired, for example). My first reaction when I did the CAR for Himiko: Bonding and got to that point was: How on Earth should I know that?? Then I realized that I probably was the most likely person to know...

However, I have two "problems" when it comes to the look of my main characters:
I often imagine the scenes from one person's point of view (like in the Himiko books) - and that means that I don't know how that character looks!
Apart from that, I don't like descriptions which are too detailed. I simply hate it when I read a novel and the writer describes the main character as Fabio. Try as I might, I simply can't get Fabio out of my head for the rest of the story. And I don't want Fabio anywhere near any characters I like;).

With Tom and Mischa, I do have a pretty clear image of how they look, though. I even found a couple of pretty good images when I googled to find the cover image for Happily Ever After. But just in case that someone has the same idiosyncrasies as me, I won't bring them here. Unless you insist, of course:).

Kristi P
7/12/2012 09:23:16

It really is a beautiful cover. Kudos to Alessia Brio.

I'm one of those people who like to work with my own image of a character when I read, but sometimes that means I get it wrong (i.e., I imagine the guy as dark haired when the author meant him to be blonde). I have a very hard time imagining the guys on the cover as the characters, and I much prefer covers like this one.

CB Conwy
7/12/2012 16:40:09

So do I! As a matter of fact, I was really surprised to find out that lots of people hate decapitated torsos (like on the cover of A Russian Bear). I like those because nothing disturbs my own image of the characters.
I can only think of a single instance where the cover has been perfect: The Dark Horse series by Kate Sherwood has a perfect image of Jeff, one of the main characters. Oh, yeah.


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    CB Conwy

    I read and I write - everything from corporate to kink. My naughty fictional friends are always there to make my life interesting. And pester me, of course. Pesky creatures.

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  • Books and reading order
    • A Russian Bear
    • Of Russian Myth and Lore
    • Happily Ever After
    • How to Domesticate a Russian Bear
    • Alphabet Soup
    • I Like You
    • Himiko: Bonding
    • Himiko: Warrior
    • Going Home
    • An Accountant into Kink (Fifty Gays of Shade)
  • Free stories
    • Who You Are
    • New Year's Resolution
    • His Something
    • Malaria, Cholera, and Bubonic Plague
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