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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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True Confession: I totally judge a book by it's cover. That is how I started to read Kristen's books. Her covers are very girly and thats how I am ...if it's pink, fun and clean, I will usually pick it up for a read of the inside cover or the back. That's my second, "criteria", the blurb on the inside (I am blanking on the real word for the blurb on the inside cover...I haven't had enough coffee yet this morning) if that doesn't catch me then I usually won't read the rest. By the way, who writes the synopsis (there's it is!)? Does the author write it? the editor?
Of course once I begin to read a certain author and enjoy his/her books it usually doesn't really matter to me what the cover looks like. i am most likely going to read it regardless of the cover.
BTY, I am liking the cover of your new book. It definetly says "Come with me to the Beach! The waters fine!" which is what I love! I usually save my chik lit books for the daily wait in the afternoon carpool line and there is nothing better than a trip to the beach in those few last kid free minutes of the day!
Can't wait to read it!
I actually think something should be done with your name, Di. It hardly shows up! We want your fans to know it's YOUR book. LOL
Glad you guys like the cover! I think it's my favorite cover yet! :-)
Colleen, I don't think they're going to make my name bigger, they're talking of making it match the font on my other books. I like this font because it looks playful. ;-)
I look at the cover, flip it over and read the backcover blurb, then open it and read the first page. If all three--or even one--grab me, I buy it.
On a side note, one thing I think is important on the cover is that the author's name be in the biggest font possible and the most readable, so when it's listed in a catalog such as christianbook.com, etc., or online, a reader can clearly see who wrote this book. (I know the size depends on your pub and career.)
I wrote my comment before I read y'all's comments.
So I must be thinking right: make sure your name stands out on the cover.
Oh Diann,
That looks just like the view from Siesta Key!
Whoo-hoo, that's a cover I could love (and pick up the book because, yes and sadly, I do judge books by their covers :-0 )
I definitely judge a book by it's cover. I had the opportunity to design my own cover when I self published. I spent several weeks on it. It also gave me th opportunity to design several other book covers for other artists. I agree about the 'name' on the cover. It doesn't need to be bigger, but perhaps a lighter color that would stand out better against the background.
not everyone...I used to work at a bookstore. Sometimes a popular, established author would get a cover that was just horrid and yet people would still buy it just because of the name.
Love the cover. I look at the cover first. Then the back cover to read the blurb.
The only thing that would make yours better is if your name looked like this:
ANE MULLIGAN
;o)
Christy, hi!!!! I didn't tell you guys this but Christy is a friend I met through this blog and she's actually had some yarn dyed special and it's called HOT TROPICS in honor of the book!!! How cool is that? She's going to make me socks from that yarn which is also cool because there are socks in the story, and, well, you'll have to read it, that's all. ;-)
LOL, Ane!!! We'll be seeing your name on a cover in no time, girl!!!
Thanks for all the comments on the cover!! I'll post it again when they finalize it so you can see if there's any change to the name. ;-)
I love your input!!
chocolate? You mean some books come with chocolate? {vbg} So would buy those books!
Seriously though, when reading a brand new writer, I choose a book by one of the following: (1) I like the cover, (2) someone's told me about a particular author, and/or (3) The "new" (to me) author is one that made a comment in the "See the great praise for this book/author" section of a book I've just read and liked.
After I've read one of an author's books, and liked it, then I hunt down every book he/she has ever written and then stalk the bookstores when the dates of the new book releases are near. (So, when will this one come out? tehehe)
Heather - I completely agree...and my pet peeve is when there ISN'T a blurb on the back cover (or anywhere). I've bought some books based just on the cover W/O the blurb, and I've been disappointed. Of course, once I've fammiliar with the author, then the cover doesn't matter as much.
Love this cover though!
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