For that purpose I have decided that my next book, no matter the content, will be titled – “Oprah says that eating whatever you want and having multiple orgasms will make you thin and financially secure”

Think that will sell copies?

It’s funny about those covers with the chainmail bikinis. The point I was really trying to make in the essay was that, often as not such a thing is nowhere to be found in the book. Tia is right, the covers are coded. Those chainmail bikinis are to let us know, I think, that there will be swords and sorcery inside – reminiscent of Conan the Barbarian… I soooooo wanted a chainmail bikini on the cover of my first book, but alas… The problem with the codes, I was trying to suggest, is when a book needs multiple codes, you know? Covers can’t be collages, I don’t think (actually they often are, but still within code).

So yeah…This one’s probably not for me. I do like the cover, though.

Oh, and speaking of point of view, that might be a good Writer Wednesday discussion. Just a thought.

I really don’t see that happening here. Ms. Merciel keeps the focus tightly on those chararacters mentioned above, and it doesn’t have a sweeping, worldwide coverage. My problems was that too much focus was on the edgy characters and not enough on the characters who I truly liked.