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20 September 2007 @ 09:51 pm
I has a cover  
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?
 
 
Current Mood: deeply amused
 
 
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Restoration Spectacular[info]machineplay on September 21st, 2007 02:57 am (UTC)
*giiiiiigggles* Oh, dear. I wonder if the pumpkin is consenting!!
Angel[info]valarltd on September 21st, 2007 02:59 am (UTC)
All i can think of is Bill the Cat, veggiesexual...
Restoration Spectacular[info]machineplay on September 21st, 2007 03:01 am (UTC)
Oh, dear me, yes!
morgan_lowri[info]morgan_lowri on September 21st, 2007 03:59 am (UTC)
He's covering the shame of his tell-tale navel ring!

;-p
Take my pride, but you can't take my sandwich[info]dragovianknight on September 21st, 2007 03:03 am (UTC)
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?
Angel[info]valarltd on September 21st, 2007 03:18 am (UTC)
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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Victor and Shane
Victor is a history prof. Shane writes very graphic bestselling thrillers.
Reannon[info]reannon on September 21st, 2007 03:21 am (UTC)
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.
Angel[info]valarltd on September 21st, 2007 03:42 am (UTC)
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.
the-willow.insanejournal.com[info]the-willow.insanejournal.com on September 21st, 2007 08:42 am (UTC)
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.
Angel[info]valarltd on September 21st, 2007 11:20 am (UTC)
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.
eroticjames[info]eroticjames on September 21st, 2007 03:34 am (UTC)
bwhahahahahahhahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

PSMLx12
"molesting the pumpkin"

sorta of the Halloween version of American Pie?

ROTFLMAOx20
Angel[info]valarltd on September 21st, 2007 03:43 am (UTC)
the cover is. The inside has minimal pumpkins.
Lots of papier mache, but few pumpkins
sailorcelestial[info]sailorcelestial on September 21st, 2007 10:05 am (UTC)
If you ask me, it's not even very good layout format for a cover... the text is all over the place.
Angel[info]valarltd on September 21st, 2007 11:22 am (UTC)
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"
sailorcelestial[info]sailorcelestial on September 21st, 2007 01:04 pm (UTC)
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.
Angel[info]valarltd on September 22nd, 2007 01:56 am (UTC)
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.
sailorcelestial[info]sailorcelestial on September 22nd, 2007 10:14 am (UTC)
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.