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I got my first Ellora's Cave cover. It's under the cut. Along with my reactions.


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OK, he looks nothing like either man in the story. He looks like an escapee from an 80's teen movie.

Dear Bird, he's molesting the pumpkin.

Thumb ring. *snicker* Wrist tat *snerk* Tight little brown nipples...hmm, pumpkin guts are sexy? Who knew?

Date: 2007-09-21 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winterknight.livejournal.com
*giiiiiigggles* Oh, dear. I wonder if the pumpkin is consenting!!

Date: 2007-09-21 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
All i can think of is Bill the Cat, veggiesexual...

Date: 2007-09-21 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winterknight.livejournal.com
Oh, dear me, yes!

Date: 2007-09-21 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morgan-lowri.livejournal.com
He's covering the shame of his tell-tale navel ring!

;-p

Date: 2007-09-21 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragovianknight.livejournal.com
You knwo, the first time I heard about doing that to a pumpkin was in Real Ghostbusters fandom, oddly enough.

Aside from his pumpkin fetish, he's a bit bland, isn't he?

Date: 2007-09-21 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
Very bland. I bet his name is Cory, like every other bit of whitebread blandness from the 80s.

Not nearly so sexy as the "real ones:" (for the value of "real" that equals "lives in Angel's head")

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Date: 2007-09-21 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reannon.livejournal.com
Well, I've seen worse, but he is a tad bland. :) Also, what is WITH EC models and the body art? Nothing against body art per se, but it's a very bad judgment call for a professional model, particularly when his modeling career involves taking off his clothes. :) It tells me EC is getting its models from, shall we say, less professional sources.

Remind me to show you TANDEM's cover sometime. It looks for all the world like the model is pleasuring himself behind the title of the book.

Date: 2007-09-21 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
I like body art, when it fits the story.
But I understand this is a stock cover for Trick or Treats, and I know my guys are too old and too odd-looking to be mainstream romance models.

The thumb ring got me. It's...slutty.

Date: 2007-09-21 08:42 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)
Why are thumb rings slutty and not just gothy? In which cause he's a little old and a little too naked.

I think EC's cover art mixed with stuff about 'sex it up - no more plot - no sex it up' just makes me run away laughing at my freedom. Plus there's something wrong with not showing properly aged models. There's more to the world that some Smallville Farm Boy Reject with a Kryptonite mutation for buggering pumpkins.

Date: 2007-09-21 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
I'm not sure why it's slutty, it just struck me that way.
I'm not used to men who wear more than 2 rings, a wedding band and a pinky ring.

It's a stock cover for the line. There'll be 2 or 3, and all the Trick Or Treat stories will have them.

Date: 2007-09-21 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eroticjames.livejournal.com
bwhahahahahahhahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

PSMLx12
"molesting the pumpkin"

sorta of the Halloween version of American Pie?

ROTFLMAOx20

Date: 2007-09-21 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
the cover is. The inside has minimal pumpkins.
Lots of papier mache, but few pumpkins

Date: 2007-09-21 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sailorcelestial.livejournal.com
If you ask me, it's not even very good layout format for a cover... the text is all over the place.

Date: 2007-09-21 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
And in four different fonts.

I think I'd make the author name font match the title, and the "Trick or Treat" match "Ellora's Cave"

Date: 2007-09-21 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sailorcelestial.livejournal.com
Isn't "Trick or Treat" in the same font as "Raising the Dead"? Looks like it is to me. But either way, I do agree. It just isn't done very well all the way around.

Date: 2007-09-22 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com
It is. I'd prefer it to say "Tricks or Treats: Raising the Dead" (ooo, watch Angel violate EC's colon hate!)

And i wouldn't blazon my name across his perky man-titties. I'd put it down where the "Trick or Treat" is now, and in the same font as them.

Date: 2007-09-22 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sailorcelestial.livejournal.com
Violate the hate! Yeah!

Man-titties. ::snerk::

Basically, it comes down to EC's artistic director (assuming they have one) has no clue what their doing.

Все прикольно сделано!

Date: 2011-06-09 11:55 pm (UTC)
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