Rainbow Awards: Cover Contest - Round 1

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Last year the cover contest was an huge success, many people voted and I think the result, the winner cover Hemovore by Kanaxa, was very good. So here we are again this year with it: 14 rounds, 508 covers in contest to arrive to the last week with the 10 finalists. [Poll #1612600]

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What drew me to a cover

[george-allwynn.livejournal.com]

Thanks again, Elisa, for your hard work at these polls. I so look forward to them, because it gives me a chance to pay favor to those who have blessed me with their talents.

Cover artist are the unsung heroes. I am one of those unfortunate souls that DOES judge a book by it's cover (or it's title.) I've added so many more books to my wish list, it's not even funny!

I noticed a hand full of artist kept cropping up in my picks time and time again.

I also noticed I was attracted to covers showing at least one older model (a touch of grey at the temples - yum!) one ethnic model (hispanics sorely missing,) models who wore at least 1/2 of their clothes, and simple, uncluttered covers.

What turned me off? Headless, bare torso men (eh-gads! Scary!), covers with a lack of definite color, single models standing there doing nothing, clutter/too busy of a cover, more than two models on a cover, and models who were so good looking, they seemed unreal/unapproachable.

I made a list of what I liked, and now I'm off to purchase my first round of books and drop a note to the publisher and the cover artist - letting them know what cover I liked and why.

Thanks for these polls! You rock!