I’ve been meaning to show my January Cover and it occurred to me this morning that time is flying. I’ve been a bit engrossed in what I will do from this time forward, and so I am apologizing to the Muse of this book, who is at this moment quite annoyed with me.
I especially love this cover, and am very thankful, for it is my last traditional Regency. I love both of the characters–the heroine with her atypical appearance (she is brunette to begin with), and the hero looks mature and very real. I am grateful to the artist for this lovely work.
Laurie
LORD RYBURN’S APPRENTICE
Signet, Jan. ’06
Congratulations on the lovely cover, Laurie, and glad the characters look right.
Elena 🙂
Thank you. I am glad to finish with a cover like this. I was not so fond of the cover of WHEN HORSES FLY, but this one is nicely un-common. My sentimental favorite will always be my first cover, THE BEST LAID PLANS, even with the changed title–but this one comes close in my heart!
Laurie
This is a lovely cover, Laurie. Congratulations!
That is approximately the purplest cover that I have every seen. Wow! I have afterimages when I close my eyes. 🙂
Hmm. Is “purplest” actually a word?
Congrats on your latest, and I hope you are already moving on to whatever comes next!
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nice cover, Laurie. They actually look like real people, the man more so than the woman who is a variant of Signet Smirkarina #5. How ironic that Signet should put some thought into the last cover of the line.
Janet
Thanks, all!
Tod, I kind of think I like having the “purplest cover.” And I didn’t even notice! I did notice the nice, ravishing dark colors.
Aw, Janet! Variant on Smirkarina #4??? (grin). Okay, maybe. But I was thinking she sort of looked like me when I was younger. A lot younger. Okay, better than me when I was a lot younger! Only I didn’t smirk!!!
Yes…they did seem to do better with the covers at the end, didn’t they? Sniff!!!
Laurie
Oops. TODD, not TOD. Sorry, Todd!
Laurie, sneaking away meekly
Hmm, Janet’s cover for DEDICATION was pretty purple too. Cara’s MY LADY GAMESTER also has a lot of purple, about the same color used on my SAVING LORD VERWOOD. (I used to think of it as Barney the Dinosaur purple but decided that calling it royal purple or something like that was more romancy.)
It must be sign of great quality.
Elena 🙂
Thanks for remembering my second “d,” Laurie! But not to worry–it’s a longstanding problem, so I keep a good-sized stock of extra d’s around for use on just such occasion. If you buy them in bulk they are really quite reasonable. Of course, you have to find room to store them…
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