Comments on: A Lying, Deceitful Cover http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/ Guess what I'm reading? Wed, 16 May 2012 07:49:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: E.Anderson http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1154 E.Anderson Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:17:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1154 Ah, the old bait and switch. The author writes a funny book but the editor wants to appeal to a market that is leaning towards dark and heavy at the time. Hence the cover. It can happen the other way too. My editor took my fairly serious book and slapped a corny cover on it and got MaryJanice Davidson to give me a cover quote. Now, don't get me wrong--I adore MJ--she is a doll and I love her books. But I hope her readers aren't gonna be pissed when they see her name and pick up my book and don't laugh their asses off cause it's not meant to be funny. OK-rant over. Evangeline Ah, the old bait and switch. The author writes a funny book but the editor wants to appeal to a market that is leaning towards dark and heavy at the time. Hence the cover. It can happen the other way too. My editor took my fairly serious book and slapped a corny cover on it and got MaryJanice Davidson to give me a cover quote. Now, don’t get me wrong–I adore MJ–she is a doll and I love her books. But I hope her readers aren’t gonna be pissed when they see her name and pick up my book and don’t laugh their asses off cause it’s not meant to be funny.
OK-rant over. Evangeline

]]> By: Bam http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1153 Bam Tue, 09 May 2006 02:14:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1153 MJD, if I were named <I>Senor Wolf de Fuzzball</I>, I think I would actually kill my parents, then myself. MJD, if I were named Senor Wolf de Fuzzball, I think I would actually kill my parents, then myself.

]]> By: MaryJanice http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1152 MaryJanice Tue, 09 May 2006 01:30:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1152 The werewolves in my fuzzy universe (e.g. DERIK'S BANE) also have names like "Wolfton" or "Wolfbauer". But nobody believes in werewolves in that world, so it never occurs to anybody that "Senor Wolf de Fuzzball" actually IS a werewolf. Two cents from a paranormal author's perspective, anyway. The werewolves in my fuzzy universe (e.g. DERIK’S BANE) also have names like “Wolfton” or “Wolfbauer”. But nobody believes in werewolves in that world, so it never occurs to anybody that “Senor Wolf de Fuzzball” actually IS a werewolf. Two cents from a paranormal author’s perspective, anyway.

]]> By: kitschweb http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1151 kitschweb Mon, 01 May 2006 14:15:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1151 Wulf von Changendoggie? OMG I'm *still* laughing. On a totally unrelated note, this is *exactly* the problem I had aeons ago with the movie Gremlins (which, if you're old enough to recall, was marketed as a warm fuzzy kids movie, when, in fact, it was teen horror!). Wulf von Changendoggie? OMG I’m *still* laughing. On a totally unrelated note, this is *exactly* the problem I had aeons ago with the movie Gremlins (which, if you’re old enough to recall, was marketed as a warm fuzzy kids movie, when, in fact, it was teen horror!).

]]> By: Bam http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1150 Bam Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:59:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1150 I've got a book in my TBR pile called the Wyld Wulfs of London or some such silly thing. Tell me that's not awesomely bad. I’ve got a book in my TBR pile called the Wyld Wulfs of London or some such silly thing. Tell me that’s not awesomely bad.

]]> By: Devon http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1149 Devon Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:21:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1149 Is that Billy Zane? Man, he keeps busy! Is that Billy Zane? Man, he keeps busy!

]]> By: Robyn http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1148 Robyn Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:48:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1148 Maybe I am cynical. I've just read too many books about mysterious werewolves trying to keep their "carniverous lunar activities" a huge secret when his name is Wulf von Changendoggie, Duke of Lycanburg. Maybe I am cynical. I’ve just read too many books about mysterious werewolves trying to keep their “carniverous lunar activities” a huge secret when his name is Wulf von Changendoggie, Duke of Lycanburg.

]]> By: Bam http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1147 Bam Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:00:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1147 Hmmm... I went to high school with a girl named Eileen Bangs and when that Ricky Martin song came out... ah, you know the rest. Maybe it <I>is</I> her real name, cynic! Hmmm… I went to high school with a girl named Eileen Bangs and when that Ricky Martin song came out… ah, you know the rest.

Maybe it is her real name, cynic!

]]> By: Robyn http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1146 Robyn Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:50:00 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2006/04/28/a-lying-deceitful-cover/#comment-1146 How long d'ya think it took this author to come up with the pen name "Bangs?" Oh, come on. That can't be her real name. How long d’ya think it took this author to come up with the pen name “Bangs?”

Oh, come on. That can’t be her real name.

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