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]

Comments

Book Give Away

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Elisa,

Feel free to add us to the publishers list offering their ebooks. Give me a shout and I'll forward you images.

owner @ silverpublishing(dot)info

Leiland

[pandorasvase.livejournal.com]

Sono contenta che ci sia il contest anche quest'anno. Le copertine sono molto importanti e posso dire di aver comprato qualcosa solo per l'immagine. Sì, lo so, sono superficiale :P
A mio avviso nell'ultimo paio di anni, la qualità delle copertine è aumentata e in molte quando le guardo, *vedo* i personaggi e questo mi piace.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Si, anche io compro con gli occhi a volte. E penso che il contributo degli artisti sia importante per la buona riuscita di un libro.

[fullmoon-dreams.livejournal.com]

Wow. So many wonderful covers in this poll.

I voted for any that would make me want to take a closer look and see if I am going to buy the book, since that is, in my opinion, the whole purpose of a cover.

Some of them are so intriguing I have even been googling the books whilst doing the poll, and my TBB list has grown considerably.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

that is the mainly purpose of a good cover ;-)

[sukiyakii.livejournal.com]

Hello! I would like to be entered into the ebook drawing. [:

It's nice to see the diversity in covers, especially the painted ones, which are my favorites. As I went through them, I have a feeling that I will be buying a lot of books in the future...

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I made some additions to my wish list too. :) Lots of good stuff here.

Angie

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Voted - and thank you for setting it up. That must have been so much work!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I had my fingers crossed that the poll didn't crash when I posted it ;-)

[darklove-zorg.livejournal.com]

Voted! It was hard to pick, of course!

I'm not sure it matters, but my book cover is listed in the voting, but my name isn't listed with the authors. Julie Lynn Hayes.

Thanks!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Julie, you submitted one book:

Julie Lynn Hayes - To the Max (Dreamspinner Press)

under Paranormal / Horror, and it's here:

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/993937.html

The cover contest only list the artist name.

[darklove-zorg.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at the list of author tags, actually, and it's not there.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Because I have still to read your book Julie. I use a tag for authors when I review them. But it's my point to try to read all the books submitted for the rainbow awards, so maybe it will not be long that I will read your book.

[darklove-zorg.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks!

[jay-bell.livejournal.com]

Exciting! So is there one winner chosen per slot? Or is it simply the highest score wins?

I hope Andreas's cover does well. My honey really worked his butt off on my cover. I already gave him an award though. ;)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

There will be 14 rounds, this is the first. No competition among the slots, the covers with the highest score will pass to round 2, 400 of them.

Fingers crossed for you, it's a nice cover.

[ladymynx.livejournal.com]

First off, thanks for all your hard work, Elisa (and for having PL Nunn's fab cover for Illusion of Night) and like others have commented, it looks like I'm going to be spending some of my vacation this weekend padding my TBR list as well as voting. There are so many fantastic covers here.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

take your time, but mind you: the poll close on Sunday midday, I need to gather all the votes and prepare next round :-)

[ladymynx.livejournal.com]

OK thanks! I'm going to start tonight.

Book Give Away

[jshillingford.livejournal.com]

Wow - I had to log onto Amazon to find some of these titles because they looked so good! Great contest!

[veggieg.livejournal.com]

I checked out cover art from 1 to 50 and wow, they're gorgeous, especially number 2 and 16 by unknown... Talk about eyes candy *swallow hard*

Thank you for all your hard work to bring the world of romantic books to us. You're the best!!!

[mercedes791.livejournal.com]

Voted! I love it when you have this contest. We get to see some awesome covers. Thankfully, I've read most of those books so I won't be spending too much on adding to my tbr list. lol :D

[dianna-luv2read.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thanks for providing so many gorgeous covers all in one place. It made me realize that I had missed several books by authors I read and highlighted more that I should try out!

[stormcloude]

*grins* I love this part of the contest. It's what first caught my eye last year. I'm leaving a comment here to remind myself to come back and vote for the second half. Yay, made it to the end! You've put a lot of work into this. O.O

[rocketbalm.livejournal.com]

Wow what a incredible talent pool of covers.

Had fun going through all of them and voting. Please add my name to the list for the draw. thanks!

[liria.deadjournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

What a great contest. There are lots of excellent covers here. I'll be checking out quite a few new books.

Please enter me in the e-book giveaway as well, thanks!

[mountie123.livejournal.com]

Wonderful covers Elisa, so many to choose from by such a fantastic group of artists. Thanks for all your hard work.

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!

[josephine-myles.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is a great poll! I've got halfway through and will have to come back and vote for the second half, but you've made me realise that the covers of m/m romances aren't as bad as all that - there are some fantastic ones in there.

I've found I keep voting for the Anne Cain and Catt Ford ones, which is interesting. I've not been paying much attention as to the names of the artists who design the covers I like in the past.

[k-kozakewich.livejournal.com]

I spent a lot of time going through the poll and I wanted to vote for so many of the covers. But I restrained myself.

I'm very impressed with all the work Elisa, and I've also added a lot of books to my gotta buy list.

I think that's a good thing. :)