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His Mistress By Morning and Love Letters from a Duke

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I’m combining #8 (HIS MISTRESS BY MORNING) and #9 (LOVE LETTERS FROM A DUKE) into one post because they actually fit into a category that I like to call: Two Covers that Make Me Cringe.

Sometimes the cover goddesses are overly generous (think The Knave of Hearts, Along Came a Duke, Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress, or Tempted by the Night)-I must admit, I’ve been mostly lucky in the covers that have found their way onto my books.

With the exception of these two:

Love Letters from a DukeHis Mistress By Morning

ARRRRRGH!!!

Now, I know there are lots of you who will protest and say that you LOVE these covers, and that is perfectly ok. But the author has such a personal relationship with their book and when the cover doesn’t fit that vision, it is like wearing the wrong color. You know, the yellow or orange that makes you look like an alien.

These are my aliens.

Cover Faux Pas No. 1

LoveLettersFromADukeLet’s start with Love Letters from a Duke. When I got the first pass at this cover, the carriage was all painted up like some fancy stage coach from a cheap western. While they toned that all down, (including adding more of her dress so we weren’t looking entirely up her skirt) all I see when I look at that this cover is the title I secretly have for it:

MISS MARY’S WHORISH RETURN TO THE WILD WEST SHOW.

I suppose that isn’t so secret now.

Cover Faux Pas No. 2

ElizBo2Someone on one of the blogs very publicly pointed out this white hot mess: My Regency era heroine has a tan line. So I have to assert categorically that there was a very secret and not well publicized tanning salon on Bond Street in 1812. That’s my story and I am sticking with it.

More to the point

, my dismay with this cover is that while the title is “His Mistess by Morning“, why does my very shy, wallflower, respectable heroine have to be posed with her hand on her hip like she’s trolling for her next John? I would have preferred not.

‘Nuff said.

Still . . ..

The funny thing is, I love these books. Writing His Mistress by Morning was like a gift from the story gods. The story just poured out. And Love Letters a Duke, well, I’ve never laughed so hard when writing. Felicity Langley is one of my most hilarious heroines–all because she takes herself so seriously. So you decide, wretched covers aside, which is your favorite?

HIS MISTRESS BY MORNING


LOVE LETTERS FROM A DUKE

2 comments to “His Mistress By Morning and Love Letters from a Duke”

  1. Layna Pimentel
    January 15th, 2016 at 8:34 pm · Link

    Sad as it is, sometimes the covers are so beyond our control. I do have to say though, my favourite cover of yours happens to be And the Miss Ran Away With the Rake: Rhymes With Love. I adore the flip of the skirt. That, and the color of the dress is my favourite color of all.



    • Elizabeth
      January 16th, 2016 at 9:28 am · Link

      I love that cover as well. It has that great sense of movement to it.







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