Comments on: There are covers…and there are, um, covers https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/there-are-coversand-there-are-um/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: never_forget_books https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/there-are-coversand-there-are-um/#comment-25419 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:35:32 +0000 #comment-25419 I'm from aussie and find the covers with the designs, instead of with the "woman warrior" more appealing.
This may be because I associate pictures of women on covers of books with cliche unoriginal YA fiction instead of interesting fantasy… But w/e.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/there-are-coversand-there-are-um/#comment-25418 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:24:00 +0000 #comment-25418 Lol, M.G.!!

]]> By: Mindy Tarquini https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/there-are-coversand-there-are-um/#comment-25417 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:37:00 +0000 #comment-25417 I’d lie and tell people that I’m the actual model for the woman warrior photos.

But, I’m shameless that way.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/there-are-coversand-there-are-um/#comment-25416 Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:56:00 +0000 #comment-25416 Hmmm. I do see your point. But it doesn’t seem overtly raunchy. Not like a Boris Vallejo cover with the compulsory Dolly Parton breasts and chain-mail thong.

I’m a marketing guy by day, and what they’ll probably tell you is that they are “populating the cover”—or some term similar. People respond to imagery of people. Travel magazines sell more by putting “people on a beach” than showing images of pristine shorelines, sans happy people.

]]> By: Bernita https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/there-are-coversand-there-are-um/#comment-25415 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:01:00 +0000 #comment-25415 Don’t see no raunch – just see a woman warrior.
To me that suggests struggle, honour and bright courage.

Glenda, the geese are arrowing north here, crying at the heels of the ice dragon.
I saw a flock this morning.
It lifted my heart.

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