Okay, so I am like totally crap and have not yet downloaded my conference photos. This is because my parents’ computer is mega slow. We’re in the wilds of Maine and there is no cell phone reception and it costs a bomb to call anywhere out of the state and the dial-up is glacial.
I grew up coming here every summer. When I was a kid, we didn’t have heating, a TV, or a washing machine. The well would dry up and we’d flush the toilet with a pail of lake water and if it got cold we’d light a fire and toast marshmallows. I used to collect buckets of inedible clams for fun. I would either skip them over the water, or I would forget about them and they would die and be really smelly. Those clams must have trembled in their shells when I came near and prayed that they would only get a violent skipping relocation.
So I guess I shouldn’t really complain about the glacial dial-up connection. I could still be torturing clams for fun.
Anyway I have downloaded one picture, which is the cover for my October release, MARRIED IN A RUSH. If you ignore the big pink banner on the top advertising how cheap the book is, it’s a good cover. I think the heroine in particular is perfect, and I like the colours and the fact that the hero has longish hair, which Bruno does. It sort of looks like these two people might run off and have sex in a cleaning closet in the National Gallery, doesn’t it? (That’s what happens in the book; I didn’t just guess it from the picture.)
(If you click on the picture you can make it bigger. I can’t edit it on this machine, so couldn’t get it the right size.)
In fact, now that I look at it, maybe they ARE in the cleaning closet in the National Gallery. You think that’s a shelf full of Windex behind them?
Welcome to my world, Julie. Not the clams, but the glacial downloads from my dial-up connection.
The cover is great — and with that bright pink banner no one is going to miss it (I believe in the half-full view of life!)
As for the closet, well, I’ve never been in the cleaning closet at the NG so I couldn’t say. But I’m sure you’re right
HMB are really going all out to promote their books these days, aren’t they? A good thing for all who write for them (and those of us who can still only dream), of course. And I totally agree with what Liz said – the bright pink strip across the top will certainly draw attention to the book.
Look at all of julie’s covers on the sidebar. With the exception of BABG, they’re all kissing (Featured Attraction is close enough it counts, after all she’s on her back!). You get some pretty spanky covers there Jules. WTG!
Oh and your post made me think of some funny things to do with your summer activities and zen-like clam.
Donna’s right, you’ve got a grand bookshelf collection there, sweeting.
That’s a really warm, engaging, passionate cover. Gorgeous.
Congratulations!
You have the best covers…sigh. Kissing couples rock!!!
Love it.
I can’t stand dial up. Had it til a year ago. The worst! Don’t miss it at all.
I thought I was peeking in a window at them (tee-hee-hee) but now I see the cleaning closet bit!
Just wanted to say again how great it was seeing you in Atlanta at the PI luncheon. And gotta say how CUTE that cover is on Spirit Willing…
*grin*
All of your covers have been gorgeous and this one is no exception. Love it! Enjoy your family time.
I love that cover, too. Boy, have you ever lucked out, babe!
And I *just* remembered something — I COMPLETELY forgot to tell you about the Constantine lookalike I saw at a bar up here at home prior to the conference.
D’oh!
Must have been all that wine… made me very forgetful.
Love the cover, Julie!! And if that’s a scene in the book, then the cover artists hit the nail on the head so to speak
Hey, thanks guys! I like the fact that most of my M&B covers have people kissing or about to kiss. It’s good. And this one really shows my heroine, who is totally fiesty and take-charge.
Kris, why didn’t you kidnap him?!? It really would’ve made my night at the Harlequin party to dance to “Boogie Wonderland” with a Constantine lookalike.