Laughing at our own expense

One of the things that makes writing a romance novel hard to tell people, is, lets face it – the cover.  Romances have a tragic history of excruciatingly bad cover art.  For crying out loud, they kept me from reading one for decades.  They were too embarassing.  I’m the first to admit.  My ego couldn’t allow for me to be seen reading, much less enjoying, a book with those covers.

These days, the writing is often extraordinary.  The industry has jumped that hurdle.

And the cover art is better.  Sometimes. 

However, this site : The Wonderful World of Longmire has celebrated the age of god awful covers.  He’s taken actual covers and renamed them and added funny blurbs.

 Behold

 and this one

Aren’t these hysterical!  Enjoy some more…

You should pop over there and see them all.  Some readers have sent in some of their own as well.  Enjoy.