For Your Consideration

[greygirlbeast]

Comments

[thefemaleknight.livejournal.com]

At first, I thought I was looking at a foreign version of The Red Tree. It took me a moment to realize that was a different book.

Wow.

[kendare-blake.livejournal.com]

Weird, huh? At least the model's got her jacket on properly in yours. And the whole thing probably does suit the Rachel Caine book more (though I've never read it).

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

...

I guess the artist sold a series of covers, and they're spreading them out across the world...

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Your book has a sinister half sibling out there. Too weird.

[jenjen4280.livejournal.com]

at least she's wearing her jacket and is less pouty on the red tree.

it's pretty damn cheesy to tweak and reuse the image, though i think it reflects poorly on the other novel, not the red tree which was published first!

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

it's pretty damn cheesy to tweak and reuse the image, though i think it reflects poorly on the other novel, not the red tree which was published first!

It was a shitty, inappropriate cover to begin with. That it's reused, and so not even my shitty inappropriate cover is insult to injury.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I guess the artist sold a series of covers, and they're spreading them out across the world...

I've written my editor to find out if this was done with Penguin's permission.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

At first, I thought I was looking at a foreign version of The Red Tree. It took me a moment to realize that was a different book.

We've sunk so far that books and covers are interchnageable.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Evil Twin...

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

And the whole thing probably does suit the Rachel Caine book more (though I've never read it).

Probably. I don't write that crap.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Weird...I was thinking it was 2 different stock art images of the same girl, but it's the same moon and house too.

*wanders off to find out who the cover artist(s) is/are*

[brienze.livejournal.com]

Damning with faint praise, but, yours has much better fonts.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Evil business practices.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Weird...I was thinking it was 2 different stock art images of the same girl, but it's the same moon and house too.

It's just sad and shoddy.

This is a novel nominated for the World Fantasy Award receiving this treatment.

[cause-catyljan.livejournal.com]

Well isn't that just charming?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Damning with faint praise, but, yours has much better fonts.

Well, mine has a cheesy Romance font. The other has a cheese Horror font. I guess it depends whether you prefer Kraft slices or Velveeta.

[spank-an-elf.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of this writer and know I know why. Reading the Amazon reviews were hilarious "How cool, the vampires act bad." "It's so cool this is set at a university, not high school." Like OMG.

I can see why someone who reads this drivel would feel great bewilderment over your writing.

[spank-an-elf.livejournal.com]

Since I think that's Italian more like rotten Provolone.

[nykolus.livejournal.com]

this has me curious now. can you expain the "business" behind cover art? danke.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't crappy that someone did this! As an occasional artist I'm curious as to whether it's an artist selling a variant of the same cover to another publisher (unethical, I think, and a growing problem with so much being done in photoshop) or if it's a second artist ripping off the first (unethical and also illegal).

[elialshadowpine]

Stock photos for covers are becoming more and more common, sadly. It gets commented on a lot on various romance blogs.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Italians love shoulders?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Utterly.

[gargirl.livejournal.com]

Sorry to repeat like a myna bird but; I thought it was The Red Tree in another language at first too. Why would they recycle art like that? and how can it be completely legal? ...? That would be so confusing running across two totally different books with virtually the same cover art. How odd that anyone would want that. Yet, it looks deliberate, how could it not be?

And it seems like the other book is a nothing piece of fluff for people loving the watered down vampire craze. ice.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

can you expain the "business" behind cover art? danke.

I really can't. Not beyond, "You get what we give you."