Holy Mother Of God….
Friday, February 23, 2007Posted in: Changeling Press covers suck great big hairy donkey bal
Can anybody actually tell what sex the above person is? I’m guessing it’s a dude, but by the looks of him, he’s on some kind of hormone replacement therapy. It seems to be working just fine too. The bastard’s got bigger tatas than I have. Sheesh.
Methinks the guy on the left could do with some sun. Seriously, I can’t even tell where his skin ends and his trousers begin. Also, check out the girl’s arm…
I’m jealous of her wax job. Nary a hair to be found anywhere.
Jesus effing Christ, this guy sure is U.G.L.Y
Seriously Changeling, could your covers suck anymore?
Barbara B.
February 23
12:49 am
The entity on the cover of Sincubus was described in the blurb as him, her, it, with a question mark at the end. Since I’m a big ole freak I’ll probably buy this, cover be damned. I buy quite a few books from Changeling Press. Covers hold no allure for me so I’m not bothered by less than stellar ones. I like the boundaries pushing stories and the proofreading is excellent, too. I can’t spell or punctuate worth a damn but I expect a lot when I’m paying. That cover is unfortunate, though.
Emily Veinglory
February 23
3:46 am
It does seem to me that Sincubus is meant to be intersexed or hermaphrodite. But in general I would be happy if all copies of Poser spontaneous combisted and we had to resort to art supplies and cameras again.
Anonymous
February 23
4:44 am
Since you’re talking covers. Can I point out how extremely phallic this is?
http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=109
Karen Scott
February 23
7:04 am
At least there’s a good reason for the he/she rather than it just being a fugly cover.
Anon, the Looseid cover is hilarious!
SpecRom Joyce
February 23
11:41 am
Not to be, you know, completely off-topic here, but…what did you think of Karin Slaughter’s Tryptych? I am working on a blog entry about it: loved it, why can’t more romance novels have characters as interesting and literary devices as challenging?
avidbookreader
February 23
4:13 pm
I nearly sprayed my computer screen…WTF was on that first cover? Horrific. I can’t seem to get the image out of my head now.
Jayne
February 23
8:54 pm
The sequel to the loose id cover is almost as good.
http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=110
Shelly
February 23
9:18 pm
Holy Crap! That first one is beyond weird! That gave me quite a start right after my mid-afternoon Friday nap.
As for the chick on Shelby Morgan’s cover, I’d like to look like her.
The rest are just scary.
Rocio
February 23
10:25 pm
Hey Karen,
I always thought you were over reacting about covers but after those samples, I’ll have to agree amd just pray covers are a perfect amtching of the story inside it! Beacuse sometimes I think i is just like that!
Ann(ie)
February 23
11:48 pm
Maybe I’m missing out because I’ve never bought a Changeling story. I think I may have reviewed one through RRT. Their covers, however, put me off as a consumer, big time.
As an author, I’d prefer a plain background and complementary colored letters over that.
Anonymous
February 24
1:55 am
I haven’t bought from them in yonks. I did recently read an excerpt by way of the ebooklove list from one of their authors.
I checked out the authors books and the covers were seriously very very scary. The books in question are Dragon’s Heir and Dragon’s Daughter if the links don’t work.
http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=475
http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=416
Dionne Galace
February 24
6:28 am
I showed these covers to my professor who is also my thesis advisor. He just kind of looked at me and shook his head.
Then he said, “You make fun of these covers, right? On your website, I mean?”
Me: “Yep.”
He replied: “The cover gods are gonna get’cha.”
Ann(ie)
February 24
5:11 pm
I kinda dig the Shelby Morgen cover. That’s the best one I’ve seen from Changeling. She looks like a Barbarian Queen ready to smash ten guys’ faces in and then have angry sex with the rest of the dudes in the bar. They’d go home crying either way.
PS
February 25
12:58 am
If I remember correctly, Treva Harte mentioned in her newsletter that the phallic imagery was done on purpose.
When I first saw the cover for “Seven Year Witch”, I thought the pale guy is doing butt clenches. Maybe he’s afraid of getting kicked out of the ménage à trois.
Kate R
February 28
3:11 am
The Treva Hart cover is disturbing because of the window. Just makes it look like an unfortunate case of hypospadias
http://www.embarrassingproblems.co.uk/penisopen.htm
Lyvvie
February 28
1:54 pm
The last guy wouldn’t be so ugly is he wasn’t cross-eyes. Definitely a paper-bagger. The rest really looks like what I used to do with my Barbies before I decided I really was too old for Barbies.Those dollies got some action in the shoebox lemme tell ya. Then again…I never said a thing.