Hot, Handsome and... Headless!

One of the pleasures of being a cover artist is exploring books and genres through the marketing lens, working with authors over time to pinpoint trends as they begin and when the newest, hottest thing becomes dated. And if you’ll help me step up on my soap box ('cause I’m barely 5 feet tall), I’d like to call the “cutting off heads” trend to the stand. This phenomenon originally started about eight years ago with a publishing company called Triskellion. (Anyone remember them?? If so, kudos to you for sticking around this roller-coaster industry!). Triskellion was one of the first “online” publishers who specialized in erotic romances featuring chiseled "manimal" chests. Since everything old is new again, this trend has come back in the last two years and so far, has not shown signs of going away.
We’ve all seen this: the clenched jaw, the bottom lip, the partial nose. The perfect pecs, the “no-sugar-passes-my-lips” abdomens. Some authors like the look because they want readers to “fill in the blanks” and create the perfect hero out of their imaginations.

Read the entire article in the March 2015 issue of InD'Tale magazine.

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