Comments on: Covering the cover

By: Vera

Vera — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:59:38 +0000

This is wonderful! The comments on the fake cover are very funny. I’m in a very technical field and most of my colleagues are male, so I usually have second thoughts about bringing my books to read for lunch break. I wouldn’t want them ogling at the cover. This is helpful!

By: Lynz

Lynz — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:01:00 +0000

The back cover copy is genius! I like the way you think, Courtney. I really do.

By: Kirstin

Kirstin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:55:17 +0000

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome-Sauce!

I think it’s funny how all these discriminators say, “At least my kid is reading (Harry Potter, Twilight, etc.)” Then they turn around and glare at romance like it’s filth. Hello, at least I’m reading, they’re probably getting fat watching 10 hours of CNN a day (Apologizes to stock brokers, TV engineers, and others who watch TV for work).

By: Hortencia

Hortencia — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:33:37 +0000

Hee hee hee – I like the way you think.

By: Tessa K.

Tessa K. — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:43:36 +0000

This is awesome!
I have never really been embarrassed by covers, mostly because I never really cared what people thought of what I read – it is none of their business. But I think that “A Completely Serious Compendium of Utterly Dire Events” sounds like a frightfully interesting book and would love to have a copy. =)

By: EllenB

EllenB — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:00:35 +0000

Courtney, you are a genius and I want to have your babies.

By: K@

K@ — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:52:36 +0000

Hilarious!

Loved the book, by the way. I read it yesterday in one highly satisfying go. Now get me a new book stat so I can buy it.

By: Maya M.

Maya M. — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:35:37 +0000

Hee

In the leering department, I was on the bus reading an excellent romantic suspense by the name of ‘Naked Once More’ with a clothed woman sitting at a desk working on a computer on the cover. A twenty-something man across the aisle asked me about it – and yes, he did leer. And seemed disappointed when I explained the title referred to a another book title in the story, not nudity among the characters.

P.S. I no longer commute, so I wouldn’t need the services of the Compendium cover. Though I agree it is suitably sepia and smoke-belcherating as to inspire respect.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:37:50 +0000

I agree, it’s genius. I love the color and graphics of the cover.

By: Laura Kinsale

Laura Kinsale — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:54:23 +0000

Perfect! Except you need to change your name to “Court Milan” so onlookers will be assured that this book is truly serious and not one of those fake-serious books written by women.