Things I Love Thursday

What I love today--pretty covers! Two of my covers (Spirited Brides and The Winter Queen) are up for the Historical category at the Cover Cafe contest. (Vote here!)

I do love a gorgeous cover. While a great cover won't make me BUY a book alone, it will make me pick a book up off the shelf and read the back cover. And if that sounds good, I might buy it. I suspect I'm not alone in this, so yay for the power of the good cover! (And boo on the evil of a hideous cover).

My friends Nicola Cornick and Anna Campbell both have lovely covers on their upcoming books:

I would definitely pick up these books even if they weren't my friends! The green and the yellow are a bit unusual for a romance (though I've been seeing a lot more yellow lately), and very eye-catching. And I'm in love with my own December cover for Duchess of Sin:

What are some covers you've seen lately you loved? What catches your eye and makes you pick up the book? What do you hate?

More new covers!

This just in! The cover for my December "Undone" short story, The Maid's Lover (connected to The Winter Queen, with yet more Elizabethan Christmas hijinks!) I love her purple velvet gown...

Things I Love Thursday

(First, I'm at the Pink Heart Society blog today, talking about old book favorites! Drop in and see me there...)

What I love today--getting new covers!!! There is something so exciting about seeing that file in my Inbox or that envelope on my porch. Will it be gorgeous? Or hideous? Will I love it??? yesterday I got this one, and it's a love!

Scandalous Brides is the second of my two-in-one reissues from Signet Regencies, and will be out in March 2010. It includes my first 2 Regencies, Scandal in Venice and The Spanish Bride, and I'm so thrilled they will be on the shelves again. Especially in such a pretty package!




And my first reissue, Spirited Brides, with my 2 "ghostly" Regencies, is still on the shelves, just in time for a Halloween read...