Comments on: Save the unicorns! http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/08/save-the-unicorns/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Empress Awesome http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/08/save-the-unicorns/comment-page-1/#comment-18962 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:56:27 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/08/save-the-unicorns/#comment-18962 Hmmm, I don't know. It seems like readers are more interested in people/characters these days, so maybe that's why there are so many headshot covers floating around. I mean, the girls and guys on those covers are drop dead gorgeous, just like a fashion magazine or something, and that's what every teen aspires to look like. And they're interested in mysterious things (or just mysterious boys), so that would explain the hoods and smoke covers.

Maybe. I don't know.

But I do know that those covers look awesome, and awesome covers are awesome. They also sell, which is also awesome.

]]> By: Suzi McGowen http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/08/save-the-unicorns/comment-page-1/#comment-18957 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:31:06 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/08/save-the-unicorns/#comment-18957 I was a little concerned at the "faceless woman" (or worse "body parts woman") trend. You know the picture I mean. The main female character only shows her hands, or her stomach, or her body but her face isn't visible. (You see this a lot in the paranormal genre.)

I finally decided that it was marketing's way of telling me that this woman could be me. This could be my hand, body, stomach, back, because the face wasn't there to tell me that it wasn't me!

Sadly for marketing, I have prosopagnosia, so they could have used the face and I would never have known.

I'd rather have the whole character, including the face on the cover.

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