An Ode to Male Cover Models

Oh! Vapid pretty boy with bland good looks
Are you doing this so you can pay rent
Modeling for covers of romance books
Maybe you should really fire your agent

Perhaps you wanted to be a doctor
Or an astronaut who’ll travel to Mars
Or maybe instead a famous actor
But now you only appear in boudoirs

Of chicks who like to read romance novels
Looking up from the covers of their books
Inspring not lust but mocking chuckles
What a tragic end for your good looks

Did you really want to be a model
Or did you dream of being a Beatle?
***

An English sonnet with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme. Iambic pentameter. Kind of. daDum daDum daDum daDum daDum. Well, okay, not really. Bitches. Hmm… maybe Eileen Myles is right and poetry is not my medium. If she saw this, maybe she’d shit herself laughing. She is, however, in love with my writing style. And she knows what she’s talking ’bout, y’all. She’s a genius.

Thanks to Sybil for this cover!

15 Responses to “An Ode to Male Cover Models”

  1. Evangeline Anderson
    1

    Did you know you can sing all the poems of Emily Dickinson to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?
    E
    PS–I like the dark and brooding look but all too often it’s a front for vacuous and stupid.

  2. Laura
    2

    Unique and imaginative…

  3. KariBelle
    3

    I posted something about this guy a while back. I think it was here but it may have been at
    Smart Bitches. He is on every freaking romance cover in B&N. It is ridiculous. Yeah, he’s hot, but come on.

    Speaking of hottness, Brandon Routh is now ruined for me forever. Guess where I saw him? On my son’s butt!!!! My little boy’s brand new back to school superman underwear has the face of the man of steel right on the butt. Not the comic book or Saturday morning cartoon Superman, but Brandon Routh. I am just not capable of looking at my baby boy’s hiney with anything close to lust in my heart. Damn you, Hanes.

  4. Bam
    4

    Gee… Karibelle… thanks. NOT!

    Sorry, babe, short of Brandon Routh himself dropping trou and taking a shit in front of me, ain’t nothing ruining BR for me. And you know what, depending on what kind of chemicals I’m on at the time, that might not even do it. Yes, I need help. GODDAMN YOU, YOU MISERABLY RIDICULOUSLY GOOD-LOOKING MAN!

    Although… I would not think your baby boy’s hiney is the hotness. Sorry. I’m depraved… but not that depraved.

    Btw, does anyone know if this guy is that Nathan guy?

  5. fiveandfour
    5

    I immediately thought of this guy - the turned down mouth looks oh-so-familiar. And for me to think I recognize someone? Pretty amazing. Oh well, at least it’s not John DeSalvo yet again.

  6. RapidReader2
    6

    This is Nathan Kamp, cover-model-du-jour …

    I lub his covers. I like John DeSalvo too, but he’s *so* last year.

  7. Joanne
    7

    “GODDAMN YOU, YOU MISERABLY RIDICULOUSLY GOOD-LOOKING MAN!”

    Um… yeah.

    Ow.

  8. Bam
    8

    Damn it, Joanne. STOP IT. Stop feeding my addiction. I wasn’t ever gonna go back to that site again ’cause I spend all day there drooling over his pictures WHEN MY ASS SHOULD BE WRITING AND NOT SHITTY SONNETS EITHER!

  9. sybil
    9

    I hate that guy. hate hate hate

    Get another fucking cover model already sheeze. He is like that song you like when you first hear it but the radio kills it with over play.

    bastards

  10. Laura
    10

    Ok, because I’m a fool for Google I can present you with the following Nathan Kamp trivia…..

    over 400 covers and counting, y’all. Yeesh. He must own stock in Harlequin by now.

  11. fiveandfour
    11

    over 400 covers and counting

    Wow - that’s got to rival the “supermodels” of the 1990s, though I imagine he’s not quite making the same level of dough as the Cindy Crawfords and Kristy Turlingtons of the world. Poor guys, perhaps there is a career where women earn more than men, after all. Figures it’d be one involving looks.

  12. Joanne
    12

    I’m sorry for feeding your addiction
    But thou must owneth up; the man is hot.
    But please get back to writing thy fiction
    Because if thou don’t write, thou won’t get aught.

    I’ve started to unearth my evil side;
    ‘Tis that which caused me to post that pic here.
    Plus obsession’s quite difficult to hide.
    (Please, someone tell me that this man is queer!)*

    My poetry is rusty, I admit;
    ‘Tis been years since I’ve been in English class.
    So please accept my crappy-ass sonnet
    ‘Cos this is the best I can do. Alas.

    (I swear I used to rock sonnets back then.
    ‘Twill take a while, though, till I do again.)

    Wait till I get to villanelles… :P

    *BR being gay wouldn’t really make me stop liking him but I’d back off a little if I knew he didn’t like girls that way. lol.

  13. Blake
    13

    BR being gay… would probably make me want him more. Yes, I’m a fag hag. Yes, I admit it. Yes, guy on guy does it for me. Yes, I realize how sad it is. But I can’t help it.

  14. Bam
    14

    BR being gay… would probably make me want him more.

    I do prefer BR being a gay man myself because that means no BREEDER whore would ever get her hands on him.

    But that’s just me.

  15. Joanne
    15

    I am a total fag hag but I don’t have any sexual feelings toward them. I just love being in their presence and doing fabulous things in their company. :) So if BR was gay, I’d find him totally fierce and hot, but I wouldn’t really lust over him like I do now. lol.

    So… my craptastic sonnet? :D



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