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[erastes]

 

Remember my post the other day on gay historical covers?

Well THIS is the sort of thing I'd like to see....

Permission to drool, sir?

Thanks to Alex Beecroft for the link. ETA: This is actually the artist who did the covers for Transgressions and False Colors!  It didn't say so in my copy of the book, but it does in hers!

Comments

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Yes.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

OOooh, shirts with open bits *stares*

We started watching The Devil's Whore yesterday. Lots. Of. Shirts. ;) My interest in John Simm has been rekindled. Also that bloke with the mole type thing above his right eyebrow is strangely...enticing.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes! Got to have the shirts!

I must get the DVD of that, the photography is amazing.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Did you know, those shirts aren't terribly difficult to make?

LOL!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

"make"? not a word in my vocab!!

same with "cook"

Re: LOL!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Pfft. These things are not difficult. Ten-year-old girls could do them competently, in earlier times.

And, while nowadays there are specialty suppliers who will sell you gorgeous historical shirts, when *I* were a lass and wanted to play historical dress-up, I had to learn to make them myself.

[maximvanziel.livejournal.com]

Nice, nice :)
Honestly I prefer the men in clothes.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Strangely I think that most people do - particularly if they have to read the book in public.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's hot. Hotter than the nekkid guys, actually.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You are very lucky, Larry Rostant is an exerpt in "fine" historical covers. He did the ones for Elizabeth Chadwick and also some of Johanna Lindsey: do you remember that someone said that you are the "Johanna Lindsey" of gay romance? so it's only right that you have the same cover artist! Elisa

[megleigh.livejournal.com]

utterly gorgeous!

[annebrooke.livejournal.com]

Ooh lovely - the one on the left is fab!

Axxx

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Oh, all those covers are gorgeous! Something about open shirts...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

If you flip through all his covers there are some wonderful historical ones. I hope one day to get the more illustrated look he does!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Well, he does seem to like Age of Sail, at least! Maybe someone just needs to convince him to have a look at the English Civil War? And I saw your post about Flint & Silver, which looks like all sorts of fun!

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

did you see the covers with all the Age of Sail officers?

http://www.rostant.com/samwitchellserie.html

http://www.rostant.com/portroyalbypeter.html

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Dies and is ded

Those are beautiful. Hey kid, aren't we moving onto a different plane, now?

[morgan-lowri.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the naked groping people on the covers is one of the many reasons I won't buy the print copies of romance novels, even from authors that I know and love. I would very much prefer to see people in historical/appropriate costume reinacting a scene from the book or even non-human coverart. Something like the blacksmith's anvil on Sean Michael's Hammer series, or the digital camera on Jenna Jones' Something Beautiful, or the artwork that a character's tattoo was based on.

As for the art link above. GUH. Yes, would much rather see one beautiful and beautifully dressed person than two headless groping naked people.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I see this more and more--and yet the publishers keep insisting that naked covers sell better than not. I really don't get it. Someone must be buying all the crappy covers.

[mallorypath.livejournal.com]

Those are lovely, and almost enough incentive to try my hand at historical if it meant I could have such a cover for my very own... ;p

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Holy shit!!! That's exactly the type of cover I'd like to see. he's a very talented chap. If you ignore the woman this cover (http://www.rostant.com/stravaganzaserie.html) also has potential, especially for something set with a Witchfinder General.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh GOD. That's gorgeous. That sparks all kind of bunnies!

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

May your bunnies breed until one grows into a story.

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

Mmm, nice. :) You definitely want to get that guy again for your next book.

Angie