Ivan addendum
Here's a better scan of the front cover of the trade paperback, unfoiled.
(Thank you, Geoffrey Kidd.)
Ta, L.
(Thank you, Geoffrey Kidd.)
Ta, L.
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Aug 11, 2013 10:39PM
Oh that idiot Ivan...
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You're probably familiar with author Jim C. Hines's gender-switching cover poses, but for your readers, he recreates SciFi and Romance covers with himself posing the way the characters (usually women, but sometimes men) are posed on the covers. The intent is to highlight the unrealistic way women (especially) are portrayed on cover art.His version of this cover is found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41225422...
but I highly recommend viewing the entire Flickr album and perusing his blog. It's both funny and thought-provoking.
Kate wrote: "You're probably familiar with author Jim C. Hines's gender-switching cover poses, but for your readers, he recreates SciFi and Romance covers with himself posing the way the characters (usually wom..."Yes, I was deeply amused, but also a little disappointed; I'd hoped for John Scalzi in boxers and covered with woad cavorting around behind the couch, but it was not to be. A low budget production, one suspects.
Ta, L.
That cover makes me think of two cats, elegant, lazy and insufferably smug.
