Comments on: A sneak peak at Karma Girl … https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/ New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/#comment-101 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:40:49 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=74#comment-101 Thanks, HelenKay. I appreciate the good wishes. 🙂 I hope your writing is going well, too.

]]> By: HelenKay Dimon https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/#comment-100 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:14:43 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=74#comment-100 I love it. And huge congrats on the MJD cover quote!!

]]> By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/#comment-82 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:10:22 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=74#comment-82 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. 🙂

]]> By: Sam Rasnake https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/#comment-81 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:12:14 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=74#comment-81 Congratulations on an incredible cover Jennifer. Very impressive. The cover will certainly draw the best sort of attention.

]]> By: Meljean https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/#comment-80 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:22:17 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=74#comment-80 I love it. 😀

]]> By: Brian https://www.jenniferestep.com/a-sneak-peak-at-karma-girl/#comment-79 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:47:12 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=74#comment-79 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?]]> 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?

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