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Hot Cover of the Week


Hot damn! Check out this cover, children. I know I haven’t featured a really hot cover in a while, but doesn’t this make up for everything? Five bucks say this cover was designed by April Martinez… (goes to LSB to check). Hah! I was right. Dude, I’ve been at this cover snarking for so long that I can even name the graphic artist. I’m so awesome. Enough about me. This post is all about giving major props to April because this is her, like… hundredth Hot Cover of the Week from me. I hold firm the belief that all covers of e-books should be designed by April. No, seriously, she didn’t pay me any money. She and I once played this game where I had to guess how may stock pictures she used to create one cover and I did really poorly. Usually, it’s totally obvious when a cover is just a bunch of pictures poorly spliced together, but… damn… if this cover is a damn composite, I can’t tell. It’s so seamless and smooth. Good job, April! Man, I totally covet the blond girl’s skin. It’s so creeeeamy and satiny, like a mother’s milk. Lucky bitch. I just love the color contrast between the nubian god’s chocolate salty goodness and the girl’s peaches and cream silkiness. Very, very sexy. I’m also digging the primitive and oh so possessive way he’s holding her… like “you’re not going to get away, bitch!” which is, like… sexy instead of scary, oddly enough. I’m also a fan of the title. Topping Tora. Alliterative titles are the hotness. I read the excerpt. There’s “heavy spanking”. What are you waiting for, bitches? Go get it!

Thanks to Sandie for the heads-up on this cover!

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12 Responses to “Hot Cover of the Week”

  1. December Quinn
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 1:46 am
    1

    That is hot. Especially when you see, it looks like his other hand (behind her neck) is holding her hair. Aaaaah.

  2. AnneD
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 5:46 am
    2

    April did the cover of Persuading Jo http://annedouglas.com/?page_id=80. I agree that she is the hot goodiness of cover art!

    (She did Position Vacant, too, but it was a an LI fling cover, I am hoping they get her to do Tea for Three, too)

  3. Teddy Pig
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 7:55 am
    3

    That is hot! Now why can’t they start using this work instead of those computer generated horror dolls?

  4. Shayla Kersten
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 8:11 am
    4

    April is definately a fantastic artist. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cover of hers I didn’t love!

  5. Sandie
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 8:18 am
    5

    I am still drooling over this sucker.
    I read that exerpt two times last night…yum yum yum.
    Great art should be celebrated…I want to celebrate right now by reading this hawt book!
    heehee!

    Love ya!
    Sandie

  6. fiveandfour
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 8:54 am
    6

    I’m a little confused about the positioning of the people - are there supposed to be 2 or 3 people represented here? The face just over the girl’s left shoulder throws me because it appears there’s an extra guy back there (since it also appears she’s being held by a left arm in front of her). But if there is another guy back there, why is that all you can see of him?

  7. AnneD
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 11:57 am
    7

    Theres a guys face in the picture? I can see a hand on a pec, maybe wrapped around her hair, and a left arm, but no face?

  8. Robin
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
    8

    April does it again! I so L-O-V-E to have her assigned for my covers.

  9. Kaitlin
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
    9

    AnneD…it’s his hand holding her hair. I thought it might be a head too until I looked at it a little closer. Weird how his hand is so bright, isn’t it? But, I do agree that the cover is very hot. I like that kind of dominant pose, without him looking like he’s actually hurting her.

  10. Rae
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
    10

    As always, April has done a wonderful job. EPIC has just recognized her work for author Bonnie Dee’s Bone Deep cover (remember the lovely tattoed man?). She is beyond the best at what she does and she does it fast, too.

    As for the excerpt — what are ya waiting for? This book is hot! And suspenseful — and hot. BDSM will never be the same. Go for t!

    Rae Morgan

  11. fiveandfour
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2006 at 7:18 am
    11

    It’s like looking at clouds and thinking they are different things…knowing it’s a hand makes it a whole lot less creepy and a whole lot more hot. Thanks everyone.

  12. Laura Bacchi
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
    12

    Thanks, Sandie and Rae for your kind words about my writing. I was thrilled to see the cover when April sent it–I couldn’t ask for a better visual to go with this story. (Thanks again, April!)

    Laura Bacchi

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