Comments on: Red Dress-Off http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/ ...and anarchy ensues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Plotters & Manipulators United » Blog Archive » Covers Galore http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-8342 Plotters & Manipulators United » Blog Archive » Covers Galore Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:04:29 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-8342 [...] years ago, I did a post here called Red Dress-Off.  The idea came about as Meredith and I each had a book with a red dress on the cover coming out [...] [...] years ago, I did a post here called Red Dress-Off.  The idea came about as Meredith and I each had a book with a red dress on the cover coming out [...]

]]> By: Sherry Thomas http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1384 Sherry Thomas Wed, 20 May 2009 04:04:16 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1384 <i>How about this for you both, how would you like to see your hero on your cover?</i> Three words: with more clothes! LOL. Mantitty always makes me think of male strippers. How about this for you both, how would you like to see your hero on your cover?

Three words: with more clothes! LOL. Mantitty always makes me think of male strippers.

]]> By: Evangeline http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1382 Evangeline Wed, 20 May 2009 02:23:21 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1382 LOL! Isn't Vivien gorgeous? I love it when Rhett makes Scarlett attend Ashley's birthday party in that dress. LOL! Isn’t Vivien gorgeous? I love it when Rhett makes Scarlett attend Ashley’s birthday party in that dress.

]]> By: Meredith Duran http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1380 Meredith Duran Wed, 20 May 2009 01:57:21 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1380 Evangeline, you are not playing fair by using Vivien Leigh as the model! -- Especially since that first dress is from one of the scenes that I rewound and rewound as a seventh grader in love with Gone With the Wind. (I re-read that book ten times... and then was given the VHS as a birthday present, which I watched until it broke!) <blockquote>How about this for you both, how would you like to see your hero on your cover?</blockquote> Hi, Caffey! That's a really interesting question. As a reader, I like the faceless trend, because I like to envision the characters on my own. And whatever gets someone to pick up a book is fine by me. That said, when I think of <I>Written on Your Skin,</I> the scene that comes to my mind occurs pretty early in the book, and here's how I see it: we're standing directly behind Phin, in a tropical garden full of flowers and lush greenery. His form is in darkness, silhouetted by the light coming from an open window above him. And out this window, a woman is leaning. Perhaps her hair (white-blond) is streaming down as she looks at him. Would this work as a cover? Probably not. That's why I'm very glad that Pocket has designers to create them for me. :) Evangeline, you are not playing fair by using Vivien Leigh as the model! — Especially since that first dress is from one of the scenes that I rewound and rewound as a seventh grader in love with Gone With the Wind. (I re-read that book ten times… and then was given the VHS as a birthday present, which I watched until it broke!)

How about this for you both, how would you like to see your hero on your cover?

Hi, Caffey! That’s a really interesting question. As a reader, I like the faceless trend, because I like to envision the characters on my own. And whatever gets someone to pick up a book is fine by me. That said, when I think of Written on Your Skin, the scene that comes to my mind occurs pretty early in the book, and here’s how I see it: we’re standing directly behind Phin, in a tropical garden full of flowers and lush greenery. His form is in darkness, silhouetted by the light coming from an open window above him. And out this window, a woman is leaning. Perhaps her hair (white-blond) is streaming down as she looks at him.

Would this work as a cover? Probably not. That’s why I’m very glad that Pocket has designers to create them for me. :)

]]> By: Caffey http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 Caffey Tue, 19 May 2009 19:39:24 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1378 Hi Sherry! Hi Meredith! I love both your first book and have the others on my wishlist! I've never visited here on your blog but will be from now on! LOL on the dresses! I just never realized that! LOL that yours wouldn't wear one Sherry. Maybe make up for that in the next book if its fitting, to have her wear one (and maybe then you'll get a cover with a white dress :) Love your chatting! I do love a great cover too tho! I'm being honest here, I do pick up books for the cover (but I pick up all books and check the blurb and all) but I love to see the covers! I'm on some bedrest and I tried to get my hubby to pick up a book for me and had him give the worker the info and he texts me and says "You made me buy a book with a nekkid man on the cover with no head!" LOL. He supports my habit but he's hilarous too! How about this for you both, how would you like to see your hero on your cover? Hi Sherry! Hi Meredith! I love both your first book and have the others on my wishlist! I’ve never visited here on your blog but will be from now on! LOL on the dresses! I just never realized that! LOL that yours wouldn’t wear one Sherry. Maybe make up for that in the next book if its fitting, to have her wear one (and maybe then you’ll get a cover with a white dress :) Love your chatting! I do love a great cover too tho! I’m being honest here, I do pick up books for the cover (but I pick up all books and check the blurb and all) but I love to see the covers! I’m on some bedrest and I tried to get my hubby to pick up a book for me and had him give the worker the info and he texts me and says “You made me buy a book with a nekkid man on the cover with no head!” LOL. He supports my habit but he’s hilarous too!

How about this for you both, how would you like to see your hero on your cover?

]]> By: Kiersten http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1376 Kiersten Tue, 19 May 2009 16:28:29 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1376 I too get dinged for the big words too and had a critique partner tell me once to dumb it down. A comment I ignored, BTW. I was just talking about your books the other day (good things, I promise!) at my writing group. Someone in the circle mentioned how English wasn't your first language and I commented that I reckoned your method of learning English likely gave you a better appreciation for the words and a greater enjoyment in crafting them into wonderful prose - 10 cents and all! I too get dinged for the big words too and had a critique partner tell me once to dumb it down. A comment I ignored, BTW.

I was just talking about your books the other day (good things, I promise!) at my writing group. Someone in the circle mentioned how English wasn’t your first language and I commented that I reckoned your method of learning English likely gave you a better appreciation for the words and a greater enjoyment in crafting them into wonderful prose – 10 cents and all!

]]> By: Evangeline http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1373 Evangeline Tue, 19 May 2009 05:58:56 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1373 Those red dresses are scrumptious. Makes me want to break out the sewing machine and whip up a scarlet historical costume like <a href="http://z.hubpages.com/u/214914_f260.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a> or <a href="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/54/039_1989~Vivien-Leigh-Posters.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Those red dresses are scrumptious. Makes me want to break out the sewing machine and whip up a scarlet historical costume like this or this.

]]> By: Sherry Thomas http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1372 Sherry Thomas Sun, 17 May 2009 14:43:12 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1372 Simone, Thank you, for myself and Meredith. And fabulous to see a staunch fan of the clinch cover! You keep reading them in public--and use them to smack any fool you don't want to suffer! :-) Simone,

Thank you, for myself and Meredith.

And fabulous to see a staunch fan of the clinch cover! You keep reading them in public–and use them to smack any fool you don’t want to suffer! :-)

]]> By: Simone http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1371 Simone Sat, 16 May 2009 23:22:57 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1371 Man, I love clinch covers. There, I said it. I love clinches, bare lady-backs with dresses falling off, and headless models, all of which are much-maligned everywhere I go on the internet. I buy 'em like crazy, so the publishers aren't all wrong. Oh, and I read them in public, too. Both of your covers are gorgeous! Man, I love clinch covers. There, I said it. I love clinches, bare lady-backs with dresses falling off, and headless models, all of which are much-maligned everywhere I go on the internet. I buy ‘em like crazy, so the publishers aren’t all wrong.

Oh, and I read them in public, too.

Both of your covers are gorgeous!

]]> By: Sherry Thomas http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2009/05/14/red-dress-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 Sherry Thomas Sat, 16 May 2009 03:55:08 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/?p=353#comment-1369 Kiersten, ROTFL about the 10-cent word. Let you in on not quite a secret. Since English is my second language, and I arrived in the States at an age when it was necessary to bulk up my vocab really fast to handle the SAT, my sense of what is a 10-cent word and what isn't is completely screwed-up. Words like perspicacity--which my agent noted in my manuscript--and clavicle--which was pointed out to me in a review--these words I acquired early on, far earlier than I learned words like "pee" and "poop." Janine, Not only would I have liked to read about Phin at his nightly round of push-ups and pull-ups, I would have liked to be there ogling. :-) Maya M., LOL! I knew he was a manwhore! Kiersten,

ROTFL about the 10-cent word.

Let you in on not quite a secret. Since English is my second language, and I arrived in the States at an age when it was necessary to bulk up my vocab really fast to handle the SAT, my sense of what is a 10-cent word and what isn’t is completely screwed-up. Words like perspicacity–which my agent noted in my manuscript–and clavicle–which was pointed out to me in a review–these words I acquired early on, far earlier than I learned words like “pee” and “poop.”

Janine,

Not only would I have liked to read about Phin at his nightly round of push-ups and pull-ups, I would have liked to be there ogling. :-)

Maya M.,

LOL! I knew he was a manwhore!

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