Give the Boys a Great Big Hand
June 24th, 2011 by Oddmonster / 410 views
It’s the next big thing in m/m romance covers, apparently. Oh yes, we’ve moved beyond Disembodied Torsos*. Now it’s time for…Attack of the severed hands!
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It’s true, some hands would die for a good book or six… |
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“Cause the hand always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The hand takes you. Unless, when that perfect house comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the hand. –”Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) |
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…And they settled on interplanetary conquest with a firm handshake. |
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(Prognosis: I’m sorry, sir, but you appear to have a staircase growing between your hands.) |
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(Man, I hope he’s got a tight grip on that cork when it blows.) |
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“Jake Goodall is a Texas bull rider who’s used to keeping his preference for men under wraps.” (“Jake Goodall is a Texas bull rider who’s used to being attacked by disembodied hands…”) |
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In a house as large as this one, a severed hand had a lot of crawling to do to get where it wanted to go. |
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(When two hands meet, and they really really love each other….) |
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(Okay, well first of course, they tend to make it official, that’s true. At least in states where that kind of thing is legal.) |
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(“…Does this hand make the back of my head look big?”) |
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Any takers on what the next cover trend will be? Eyeballs? Feet? Sexy kneecaps?
*Oh don’t get me wrong: there’s still plenty of severed torsos to go around…
Posted in Ramblings
You should do one where a cover model shows up on every cover no matter the genre. I can’t count how many times I have seen the same ugly recycled covers.