Comments on: Cheryl St.John: Cover Love

By: Maggie Brendan

Maggie Brendan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:13:26 +0000

Cheryl, I enjoyed reading your post about covers and thanks for putting my book, The Jewel of His Heart, on your post. An intriguing cover always compells me to pick up a new book, no matter who the author is. I think the marketing people really know that when they’re designing them. My 2nd cover is so beautiful! The heroine is lovely with her Yogo blue eyes and I was allowed a big part of what when on the cover and I’m grateful for that. My next one coming out in June is equally as nice. Her Colorado Man is so pretty and besides that, I love Colorado.:)

By: Margaret Brownley

Margaret Brownley — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:47:42 +0000

I’m chiming in way late. Every time I blink I get behind. Cheryl, you have a lot of great covers but that Colorado man, yum, yum. Very romantic.

I’m with you. I don’t want boys on my covers.

By: Cheryl St.John

Cheryl St.John — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:59:10 +0000

I prefer subtle covers, too. Or handsome MEN – not boys – MEN.

By: Patricia Barraclough

Patricia Barraclough — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:08:47 +0000

Good Post. Covers do make a difference for me. There have been books I haven’t checked out because of the cover. I’m not a big fan of partially clad figures. Landscapes, Items that pertain to the story (swords, flowers, rings, hats, cradles, etc), people all work. Most of the ones you chose are good examples.
I never bought or read romances because of the “bodice ripper covers”. Julie Garwood had a run of her historicals come out with covers that had scarves and jeweled broaches on them. They were lovely and after reading one, I bought them all. I still prefer subtle covers.

By: Karen Witemeyer

Karen Witemeyer — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:09:20 +0000

Chiming in late, today, Cheryl, but I loved your post. Whoever said not to judge a book by it’s cover was probably right, but we do it every day, don’t we?

The cover is the first thing that draws me in, but it’s the blurb that gets me to buy the book. On the other hand, there are probably some great stories I miss out on because the covers are too … um … amorous for me. I refuse to buy a book that I would be embarrassed for my kids to see me reading.

Oh, and thanks for the head’s up on Catherine Anderson’s new book being a western. I love her historicals but probably would have walked on by thinking that one was a contemporary. Show us the cowboys!