A sneak peak at Karma Girl …

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Karma GirlI have cover art … and it totally rocks! I really love the cover for Karma Girl. I think it captures the comic-book and romance/chick-lit spirit of the book at the same time.

It is just too cool.

Kudos, kudos, kudos to the Berkley artist or artists who designed this. You are my favorite person right now. 🙂

This isn’t quite the final version of the cover, though. I think there will be a little more tweaking, plus they  have to add on a cover quote from (drumroll here) … MaryJanice Davidson. Yep, that’s right, MJD of “Undead” series fame is blurbing my book. Hooray!

What about you? Do you love the cover? Hate it? Would it make you want to pick up the book? Or run away screaming in the store? Inquiring minds want to know …

6 Responses to “A sneak peak at Karma Girl …”

  1. Brian says:

    I share your enthusiasm about your book’s cover. A good cover can add to the success of a novel, and you have a winner. At the risk of rambling, I want to share a little story with you.

    Until recently I had never read a romance novel. After reading about the snobbery that you witnessed at the expo, I thought I should give it a chance. So I went to my local library’s online card catalog and found out they had Rachel Gibson’s “The Trouble with Valentine’s Day” and Erin McCarthy’s “Houston, We have a Problem”. Since both of them had been kind enough to give you a blurb, I figured they would be fine representatives of the romance genre. Before I went to the library to check out the books, I was sure to find out what was on the cover. While I’m more than secure enough in my manhood to check out what you refer to as “romance/chick-lit” – Even I have my limits. I like to consider myself a very open minded person, but I draw the line at checking out books with the sexy guy without a shirt on the cover. I know the adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Yet don’t you believe the entire romance genre is limited by the covers the publishers choose?

  4. Jennifer Estep says:

    Thanks for the nice comments about the cover, everyone. I really do think that it’s awesome. 🙂

    As for Brian’s comment about romance covers, my significant other has the same reaction. He often snickers when we go to the bookstore and browse through the titles. I, personally, am not a big fan of real people or “floating” body parts on a cover. I’d much rather see a comic/cartoon rendering (my cover) or an object, like on many of the Robert Parker covers.

    But I don’t think the romance genre is limited by the covers. Have you looked at fantasy covers? Comic-book covers? Thrillers? They all have their own parameters. Some of the fantasy covers are beyond silly. The sci-fi covers can be really cheesy too. Spaceships and aliens, oh my.

    If you buy comic books, depending on the title, you’re buying not only a cover featuring a big-chested, razor-thin woman with down-to-there legs and otherwise unrealistic proportions, but pages and pages of her. What’s the difference between that and a bare-chested guy?

    A good cover can help a book, but it’s what’s inside that really matters. I don’t care how atrocious a cover was, if I loved the story, I’d buy it. In hardcover. For full price. 🙂

  6. Jennifer Estep says:

    Thanks, HelenKay. I appreciate the good wishes. 🙂 I hope your writing is going well, too.

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